Spock should've worn that helmet in SNW "Charades".
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Spoilers DSC: Somewhere to Belong by Dayton Ward Review Thread
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Hmm. And of course, Benny Russell (and that entire episode) take place well before Kirk and Kor cooperate to free themselves from a similarly-named pocket-universe in the Delta Triangle.
But getting back to Somewhere to Belong, I'm now just past halfway through, and sure enough, there is some bad juju going on.
No SNW spoilers here, please! Some of us wait for the DVD set.
You do realize, of course, that my comment about your "Charades" reference was half-facetious.
But only half.
But only half.
I mean, it's kinda hard to claim that as a spoiler, since it doesn't reveal anything at all about the episode. (Other than the title, which we don't treat as spoilers.)
And a missed Easter egg opportunity 
Just finished it. Almost an "outstanding."
As to breaking the 8th wall and having a television series exist as an in-universe television series within itself, Emergency! came damn close: in one episode, they did a crossover with Adam-12, while in another, Gage was obsessed with finding out how an episode of Adam-12 had ended. Not quite as blatant as Bart and Jim going into a theatre to see Blazing Saddles or Dark Helmet watching a videotape of Spaceballs, but that only happens in Mel Brooks comedies.
As to breaking the 8th wall and having a television series exist as an in-universe television series within itself, Emergency! came damn close: in one episode, they did a crossover with Adam-12, while in another, Gage was obsessed with finding out how an episode of Adam-12 had ended. Not quite as blatant as Bart and Jim going into a theatre to see Blazing Saddles or Dark Helmet watching a videotape of Spaceballs, but that only happens in Mel Brooks comedies.
In comedies, but not only Mel Brooks ones -- see The Muppet Movie or She-Hulk, for example.
Then there was Batman and The Green Hornet referencing each other as TV shows their respective characters watched before having the Green Hornet and Kato show up as real people in Batman.
There's the episode of Power Rangers Dino Thunder, a localized adaptation of the Japanese Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, where the Dino Thunder Rangers watched a dubbed episode of Abaranger that was supposedly a Japanese fictionalization of their own real-life adventures.
Marvel Comics since the '60s have established that Marvel Comics and its creators exist in the Marvel Universe, as biographers of the superheroes' real experiences. Comics like The Fantastic Four are presumably the same in-universe as in real life, although in the case of characters with secret identities, the in-universe comics invent imaginary identities for them.
An available species in the game Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the Crichtonsaurus. In the "real world" (do we have a better word for our universe?), it was named Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park. In the game, Dr. Henry Wu mentions he read 'Crichton's book' and liked it.
There's, IIRC, also Star Trek stories that establish the TOS crew travelled into the past and told Roddenberry, Shatner and co everything.
There's, IIRC, also Star Trek stories that establish the TOS crew travelled into the past and told Roddenberry, Shatner and co everything.
There's Roddenberry's conceit in the preface of the ST:TMP novelization that TOS was an "inaccurately larger-than-life" 23rd-century dramatization of Kirk's adventures, and that the changes in TMP are due to it being a more authentic dramatization due to having Admiral Kirk's oversight this time around. I built on that in The Higher Frontier by establishing that there are in-universe shows based on the mission logs of famous Starfleet ships including the Enterprise.
What was the movie they were watching at the end?
Aliens living amongst humans and making lives for themselves.
Aliens living amongst humans and making lives for themselves.
Which is the subject of my current review series on Patreon, as linked in my signature. And the TV series version was the best science-fiction-as-allegory show since Star Trek, with two lead actors who later appeared in Trek, Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint. The eight tie-in novels from Pocket had an editor and a number of authors in common with the Trek novels, including Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Peter David, K.W. Jeter, and L.A. Graf.
Really enjoyed it. By the way I loved the easter egg about headaches, taken from early TNG 
