Does the song "Intergalactic" by the Beastie Boys exist in Star Trek?
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I like my sugar with coffee and cream! / Intergalactic planetary!
I'd be surprised if they didn't. The first time the NX-02 was mentioned was in The Expanse which aired late May 2003, meaning it was written and filmed after the Columbia disaster. The name is mentioned for the first time in E-Squared which aired early May 2004.
What is odd is before the name was spoken on screen there were rumours the ship was going to be named Columbia, and when these rumours were brought up in an interview with Rick Berman he denied it, even though this interview was only done days prior to E-Squared airing.
There's nothing in Star Trek that precludes the existence of a television show or other pop culture phenomenon known as "Star Trek". It's a simple phrase. Perhaps, with Zefram Cochrane's love of 1960s culture, that's where he got the phrase "star trek" from in the first place.
As stated here, Benjamin Spock is an easy replacement for any "Mr. Spock" references (or to be correct, "Dr. Spock" references). And there have been hundreds of Captains Kirk in real life and a few fictional ones as well.
Of course, taking non-canon into account, the entire Star Trek franchise (from the Original Series to at least Voyager) exists within the Star Trek universe. See the Strange New Worlds II story "Research" by J.R. Rasmussen (darn time travellers). I'm going to assume that records were lost during World War III.
As stated here, Benjamin Spock is an easy replacement for any "Mr. Spock" references (or to be correct, "Dr. Spock" references). And there have been hundreds of Captains Kirk in real life and a few fictional ones as well.
Of course, taking non-canon into account, the entire Star Trek franchise (from the Original Series to at least Voyager) exists within the Star Trek universe. See the Strange New Worlds II story "Research" by J.R. Rasmussen (darn time travellers). I'm going to assume that records were lost during World War III.
Nothing. That's the exact line.
The Reboot TVH just sent them slightly later in the time stream and Spock nerve-pinched Adam Horovitz instead because he thought his voice was really annoying. The rest of the band thought the move was pretty bad ass and later wrote a song about it.
Kirk, of course, didn't get the connection until he listened more closely to the song afterwards, at which point he also remembered that the command crew of the USS Exeter had included a mulatto, an albino, a xindi insectoid (who kinda looked like a mosquito) and a Deltan, thus finally explaining the meaning of "Smells like Teen Spirit"
I did enjoy how in Doctor Who, they imply that the TV show Doctor Who exists in the Who universe, and it's just one of the quirks of time travel.
Probably a little too on the nose for something like Star Trek, though.
All they established was in 1963 there was a program on BBC with a name that started with "Doctor." The Lethbridge-Stewart novel series expands on this by suggesting the show is actually called "Doctor Omega" even though it is essentially a Wormhole X-Treme meta-take on Doctor Who.
