DS9! remember DS9?? It’s the one you all say is the good one after the other one that’s best and we also did a take on, now remember DS9 and check out how this show is more DS9! Did I mention DS9???
Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…
Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.
Trials and Tribble-ations is a masterwork. Star Trek’s penchant to self reference can make great things. But it can also make episodes like many of the Enterprise ones.
They also just introduced one of the main characters of TNG in season 4, even referencing a TNG movie. It is wild to assume Star Trek was never self-referential lol
Voyager referenced or included TOS and TNG characters in at least eight episodes of season 3.
“Flashback” was the big Sulu/Rand/Kang 30th anniversary tribute
“Death Wish” had Q and Riker
In “Alliances” Tuvok talks about Spock and recaps the events of Undiscovered Country
McCoy was mentioned in “Lifesigns”
Data was mentioned in “Prototype”
Sulu was mentioned in “Tattoo”
Picard and Moriarty were mentioned in “Alter Ego”
Picard was mentioned again in “Scorpion”
That’s basically a third of the season, assuming I didn’t forget any. And that’s not even counting things like the mention of Wolf 359 in “Unity” or the koon-ut-kal-if-fee in “Blood Fever”.
And that’s from the show that went out of their way to make it hard to use existing concepts.
I was mainly using season 3 as an example, but fair point that they were referencing other shows from episode 1.
Heck, one of the first characters to speak on the show was Gul Evek, who had appeared in several episodes of DS9 and TNG starting with “Playing God” when he refused to help O’Brien with the voles.
DS9! remember DS9?? It’s the one you all say is the good one after the other one that’s best and we also did a take on, now remember DS9 and check out how this show is more DS9! Did I mention DS9???
Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…
Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.
Trials and Tribble-ations is a masterwork. Star Trek’s penchant to self reference can make great things. But it can also make episodes like many of the Enterprise ones.
They also just introduced one of the main characters of TNG in season 4, even referencing a TNG movie. It is wild to assume Star Trek was never self-referential lol
Voyager referenced or included TOS and TNG characters in at least eight episodes of season 3.
That’s basically a third of the season, assuming I didn’t forget any. And that’s not even counting things like the mention of Wolf 359 in “Unity” or the koon-ut-kal-if-fee in “Blood Fever”.
And that’s from the show that went out of their way to make it hard to use existing concepts.
Don’t forget the very first episode literally having Harry and Paris in Quarks Bar, and talking to Quark on DS9 before Voyager heads to the Badlands.
I was mainly using season 3 as an example, but fair point that they were referencing other shows from episode 1.
Heck, one of the first characters to speak on the show was Gul Evek, who had appeared in several episodes of DS9 and TNG starting with “Playing God” when he refused to help O’Brien with the voles.
That’s right, I completely forgot about Worf, and also the O’Briens!
How could you forget about Keiko! Lol
And TNG has appearances from several TOS cast members reprising their original roles; Deforest Kelly, James Doohan, Mark Leonard and Leonard Nimoy.