Spoilers Reference in Picard

[DJ NoMad]

Ahhh! WTAF?!?

Spoiler for those who haven't seen the latest season of Picard,

Spoiler: season 2 episode 3

but after the crew goes back in time to 2024 Earth, Rios meets a boy who watches Rick & Morty. So Rick & Morty is officially in Star Trek canon now, but doesn't Rick & Morty make references to Star Trek? And does that mean Mike McMahan is canon even though he created Lower Decks?!? Rick Sanchez--I mean.. Q has really f#c*ed with the universe this time!

Now my head hurts!

 

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[Mike Doyle]

Shouldn’t this be in the Picard forum?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Doctor Who both crosses over with Star Trek (in comics and books at least) yet also they reference each other as TV shows.

It's one of those magical TV show things.

 

[shapeshifter]

Cool shout out to Mike McMahan.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

Ever since Star Trek 2009 we’ve known the Beastie Boys exist in Star Trek, and they’ve directly referenced Trek in their lyrics.

As Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest, and more recently Michael Burnham, are prone to say “it’s a hell of a thing.”

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

As long as Rick & Morty doesn't exist in the Back to the Future universe we're fine.

Also I actually like it when series do things like this, as it's kind of reassuring to know that most of our culture still exists in the Trek universe, even if the Trek references probably don't. I have a feeling that Gene Roddenberry had a very different career in this timeline however.

 

[donners22]

Rain Robinson watched every episode of Mission: Impossible, so was presumably familiar with Leonard Nimoy's career - including Star Trek.

Similarly, Trip was familiar with The Twilight Zone - including, quite likely, William Shatner.

 

[Orphalesion]

It's really as easy as to assume thatthe various shows that like to reference Star Trek (Rick and Morty, Family Guy, South Park etc.) exist in the Star Trek universe(s), they just lack the references (for example the episode of South Park where Michael Dorne appears in Worf makeup has a different celebrity and character)
How that all works with the Eugenics Wars and/or World War III (if those things are still in continuity) isanybody's guess, however.
Things that are directly basedon Star Trek though (Galaxy Qu'est, the Or ville) probably don't though.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

In the Star Trek universe Galaxy Quest starred Patrick Stewart and The Orville stars Sonequa Martin Green. They were both inspired by Buck Rogers.

 

[Orphalesion]

They were both inspired by Buck Rogers.

Not on Captain Photon?

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Oh right, sorry, it was the reboot of Captain Proton from 1965 starring Jeffrey Hunter, George Takei and Laurel Goodwin which would've been their primary influence. It only lasted for 3 seasons, but it was a hit in syndication and ended up getting 6 movies!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Pickle Rick merch exists in the Picardverse. All is good with the world.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Rain Robinson watched every episode of Mission: Impossible, so was presumably familiar with Leonard Nimoy's career - including Star Trek.

Similarly, Trip was familiar with The Twilight Zone - including, quite likely, William Shatner.

Given Tom Paris love of the 20th century surely he has Nemoy's Bilbo and Shatner's Rocket man on vinyl.

 

[SJGardner]

The real question is whether Paris looks quizzically at Tuvok whenever he reaches that particular scene in Spaceballs.

Also, I wonder if Nena's 99 Luftballons exists in the Trek universe. After all, the lyrics specifically mention overconfident fighter pilots "thinking they're Captain Kirk" in both the original German and the English translation...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Also, I wonder if Nena's 99 Luftballons exists in the Trek universe.

Hopefully, only in the German version.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The real question is whether Paris looks quizzically at Tuvok whenever he reaches that particular scene in Spaceballs.

Also, I wonder if Nena's 99 Luftballons exists in the Trek universe. After all, the lyrics specifically mention overconfident fighter pilots "thinking they're Captain Kirk" in both the original German and the English translation...

In the Trek verse the line is "thinking they're Han Solo".

 

[CorporalCaptain]

In the Trek verse the line is "thinking they're Han Solo".

Captain Solo.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Captain Solo.

The guy who made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs?

 

[XCV330]

Doctor Who both crosses over with Star Trek (in comics and books at least) yet also they reference each other as TV shows.

It's one of those magical TV show things.

Dr Who crosses over with Eve Online, now also (grumble), so there, three continuities linked. Since Eve Online takes place over 10,000 years from now in another galaxy it could technically fit in, though i wish it didn't.


Astronaut Mae Jemison was on TNG. But now Mae Jemison is the head of an actual project to design a starship, the 100 Year Starship Project. If the Star Trek Universe is depicted as an alternate reality from ours, then Mae Jemison could have been been involved in DY-100, or even an aged mentor to a young team of volunteers including Cochrane and Sloane.