Star Trek has been referenced several times in For All Mankind. That’s not totally surprising since the show was created by a Trek alum and the show predates the point of divergence in the series. So while we know that Trek exists in that universe, one wonders if it would be different in a world where actual space travel flourished?
Star Trek in For All Mankind
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Ron Moore said in an interview that his idea was that the Star Trek television continuation popularly known as "Phase 2" did actually happen in the '70s, and "The Wrath of Khan" was, in fact, the first big-screen Star Trek movie.
(Which I find intriguing, because Phase 2 was being developed with the assumption that Nimoy wouldn't come back, and Shatner might only be a regular for the first half of the first season, and become a recurring character after that, so it's entirely possible TWOK would've been billed as the triumphant return of Kirk and Spock to the Enterprise, which would've made the end even more of a gut-punch).
Since we're up to 1994 now, I imagine Ron Moore might've also decided that he and Braga got an extra week to polish the script for Generations and he caught that mistake about the "much too big" margin of error.
(Which I find intriguing, because Phase 2 was being developed with the assumption that Nimoy wouldn't come back, and Shatner might only be a regular for the first half of the first season, and become a recurring character after that, so it's entirely possible TWOK would've been billed as the triumphant return of Kirk and Spock to the Enterprise, which would've made the end even more of a gut-punch).
Since we're up to 1994 now, I imagine Ron Moore might've also decided that he and Braga got an extra week to polish the script for Generations and he caught that mistake about the "much too big" margin of error.
That’s interesting because I also thought that it would have made sense for Phase 2 to be the triumphant return instead of TMP. I wonder if there is a TNG in this universe?
Well, your in the 90s, so you have Babylon 5 too 
It can't have escaped anyone's attention that the Helios in FAMK had a bridge set up similar to Star Trek. Even Ed seemed to appreciate it.
Yeah, I thought that someone was going to comment on that. It was the first bridge like command center shown.
Ed looked suitably Kirk like when he sat in the centre seat. "Now this is more like it".
Great show. Probably my favourite ongoing series right now and up, up, up there with my favourite other things. I hope it ends after Season 5 with a manned craft leaving the Solar System.
The space shuttle OV-101 was still renamed from Constitution to Enterprise (and retrofitted to be spaceworthy, as originally planned), meaning Trekkies still organized a mass letter writing campaign to President Ted Kennedy (who took the place of Gerald Ford in this timeline) and that Roddenberry and the whole TOS cast sans Shatner were probably present at the rollout of the shuttle, like they were in real life.
Maybe Shatner attended in this timeline. Or maybe he was too busy being commander of the Alpha Beta Moon Base.
Maybe Shatner attended in this timeline. Or maybe he was too busy being commander of the Alpha Beta Moon Base.
Maybe Shatner attended in this timeline. Or maybe he was too busy being commander of the Alpha Beta Moon Base.
No tower? Why the hell aren’t I notified about these things?
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