Unexpected Trek References From Unexpected Sources

[Silvercrest]

the movie "Troll"(1986) features this exchange between witch Janice St.Claire and Harry Potter Jr. (the movie's main character)

Writer Ed Naha and the Troll producers should have sued the shit out of J.K. Rowling.

Ed would then have to turn around and explain his direct lifts of Sergio Leone's movie plots for his "Traveler" novels.

Unless they trademarked the name "Harry Potter," they wouldn't have much of a case. And it's not like "Harry Potter" is all that unusual a name.

For a long time every time I heard the name, all I could think of was a M*A*S*H character.

Granted, one might want to think twice about naming a character "James Bond" or "Scarlet O'Hara" . . ..

GI Joe managed to get away with Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara, though.

 

[Orphalesion]

GI Joe managed to get away with Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara, though.

There's also a Scarlett O'Hara in "Love Angel Wedding Peach"....I go stand in the corner.

 

[Kor]

On "Mad Men", when Harry Crane sent Paul Kinsey off to Hollywood with a plane ticket, $500, and Kinsey's horrible Star Trek spec script "The Negron Complex."

Kor

 

[Christopher]

Tangential Trek, but was playing Ep 2 of console game Life Is Strange, in which the central character develops the ability to manipulate time. In the opening scene of her college room, she's been researching a bunch of stuff on theories of time, and I lol'd at one book credited to 'Dr Nick Meyer' (I'm assuming it's a conscious homage but could be wrong)

That's more likely a reference to Meyer's movie Time After Time, in which H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) pursued Jack the Ripper (David Warner) through time to 20th-century San Francisco. So it's not a Trek reference, even though several of the film's key players would later appear in Trek.

Kill Bill quoting Klingon proverb...

Or rather, quoting Khan's misattribution of a French proverb to the Klingons.

 

[Shawnster]

Crimson Tide is about a navy officer staging a mutiny on a US nuclear sub. Denzel Washington's character tries to encourage a young tech to repair the communications system by calling him Scotty and making several Star Trek references about how the ship needed Scotty to be a miracle worker.

In one of (or the) final episodes of HBO's The Newsroom, one of the characters is watching Star Trek TOS on his tablet during a plane flight.

In The West Wing a recently hired staffer is all engrossed with Star Trek and how the values and principles should be strove for in real life. She even is wearing a Star Trek pin or something... Her boss, Josh Lymen, berates her about getting fantasy mixed up with reality, then softens his criticism by letting her know the Star Trek values and principles are worth striving for.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Unless they trademarked the name "Harry Potter," they wouldn't have much of a case. And it's not like "Harry Potter" is all that unusual a name.

For a long time every time I heard the name, all I could think of was a M*A*S*H character.

We had a real life TV journalist, Harry Potter, in Sydney, Australia, during the 1970s-2000s.

 

[martok2112]

Crimson Tide is about a navy officer staging a mutiny on a US nuclear sub. Denzel Washington's character tries to encourage a young tech to repair the communications system by calling him Scotty and making several Star Trek references about how the ship needed Scotty to be a miracle worker.

Loved that movie...and that scene in particular. And then, during a desperate moment on the ship, Washington's character is urging that young tech with more "I need more, Scotty" type references.

In The West Wing a recently hired staffer is all engrossed with Star Trek and how the values and principles should be strove for in real life. She even is wearing a Star Trek pin or something... Her boss, Josh Lymen, berates her about getting fantasy mixed up with reality, then softens his criticism by letting her know the Star Trek values and principles are worth striving for.

Loved that scene! One of my favorites from the whole of that great show!

 

[Cyke101]

Not that anyone should ever watch Suburban Commando, but I remember at least two references:

-Hulk Hogan finds a little boy to the arcade. Of course, we get a "funny" scene of the boy furiously playing an arcade game, and Hogan tells boy to use his phasers and photon torpedoes. The boy reports that his shields and deflectors are down. Except the arcade game is clearly After Burner, a fighter jet game, so it shouldn't have phasers and torpedoes in the first place, but oh well.

-During the happy ending, Hogan returns to his starship and bids the family farewell. The ship rises to the sky, and warps out with TOS movie-style streaks (particularly II-V). The family just looks at each other because they've probably seen that warp style before.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Not really unexpected considering the source, but the battle cry of "Qa'pla!" in Team America: World Police is an all-time favourite of mine.

 

[JamesGarfield]

ET The Extra-Terrestial:

Elliot is explaining to his friend that they have to get ET back to the forest so his ship can come get him.

Friend says: "Why don't they just beam him up?"

Elliot: "Oh come ON! This is REALITY!"

*****

Larry Miller's monologue on The Five Stages of Drinking:

Level 5:
Five in the morning. After unsuccessfully trying to get your money back at the tattoo parlor ("But I don't even know anybody named Ruby!!!"), you and your friends wind up across the state line in a bar with guys who have been in prison as recently as ... that morning. It's the kind of place where even the devil is going, "Uh, I gotta turn in. I gotta be in Hell at nine. I've got that brunch with Hitler, I can't miss that." At this point, you're all drinking some kind of thick blue liquor, like something from a Klingon wedding.

 

[martok2112]

Don't know if this one's been mentioned, but the movie "Sidekicks" (I believe it was) has Joe Piscopo as a malevolent martial arts instructor who is counting his class through their kata....in thl'ngan as far as I can tell.

 

[martok2112]

Not really unexpected considering the source, but the battle cry of "Qa'pla!" in Team America: World Police is an all-time favourite of mine.

Aye....I think they had Mel Gibson shouting Q'apla also in "The Passion of the Jew" on South Park.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Don't know if this one's been mentioned, but the movie "Sidekicks" (I believe it was) has Joe Piscopo as a malevolent martial arts instructor who is counting his class through their kata....in thl'ngan as far as I can tell.

There was an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer was taking a martial arts class and talking about his katra. The other characters later discover that he got the term from STIII. As I recall, Jerry even says at one point, "Well, it was the best one of those movies."

And George eulogizes his fiancee Susan with McCoy's "he's not really dead as long we remember [her/him]." This is what inspires Susan's parents to create a foundation to remember her by. I think they even had Trek fan Jason Alexander do the "KHAAAAAAAN!!!!" yell at the end.

 

[Cyke101]

Since Dragon Ball Z was brought up in another thread, here's two images of a "news copter."

The funny thing is, that episode was made in 1989. It's fresh from TFF, so for a Trek reference, it was pretty current.

 

[martok2112]

Ok...I know this one is not Trek...but it was so funny I had to share.

A show called. "The Crazy Ones" (now on Netflix) starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and the late, great Robin Williams. Before they roll the end credits for each episode, they show outtakes and bloopers. In an episode called "Bad Dad", one of the outtakes has this exchange.

Simon (Robin Williams): Where did you learn that Dukes of Hazard thing?
Sydney: (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Sunnydale.

Knocked me out of my seat laughing.

 

[Captain Rob]

Somebody please introduce this person to the airlock.

 

[2takesfrakes]

I certainly didn't expect STAR TREK to be referenced ... in STAR TREK! Zefram Cochrane's use of the term in FIRST CONTACT breaks the 4th wall in a way that always leaps me out of the movie. The worst joke in STAR TREK since the whole of Shatner's THE FINAL FRONTIER.

 

[Ghrakh]

Some Trek references in this music video. Perhaps not that unexpected

https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw

 

[JirinPanthosa]

In Soap, a sitcom that was a parody of soap operas in the late 70s, Billy Crystal wins a martial arts fight by making use of the vulcan neck pinch. (And then is surprised that it actually worked).

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Here's one I just encountered: The AV Club uses "pulls a Kobayashi Maru" as a reference in this list of Price is Right screwups:

http://www.avclub.com/article/come-doh-6-times-price-right-screwed-217610

It's interesting that they don't even explain the reference. They just assume that all of their readers will get the meaning. I didn't know that TWOK had become so ubiquitous.