More references:
in SM Stirling's works, the Vulcan greeting from Star Trek, "Live long and prosper," is quoted both by a Nantucketer and by a Shadowspawn;
in a Philip K. Dick short story, TV space operas are called "captainkirks";
Robert Heinlein's Number Of The Beast (not that I recommend it) refers to Star Trek.
Thus, Star Trek has popularized some sf ideas and made its mark, although I do not think that it was ever referenced by Poul Anderson.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Aw, shucks! I missed how that Shadowspawn's use of "Live long and prosper" was taken from STAR TREK. Yet again, my lack of interest in STAR TREK caused me to miss a neat use of that line by Stirling.
And one of Anderson's Flying Mountains stories does refer to Tolkien and THE LORD OF THE RINGS by having a ship named "Gandalf."
Sean
Paul:
In Stirling's Lords of Creation series, the Star Trek-equivalent Gene Roddenberry created was titled New Frontier. Toward the end of The Sky People, the fellow who's been taken over by the alien computer says, "Resistance is futile," a line from one set of Trek villains, and one of the heroes groans, "Oh, lordy, now he's quoting from a New Frontier episode."
David,
I think "Resistance is futile" has a broader lineage?
Paul.
Paul:
It's certainly something that could've been said by a lot of people, but my point was that when Cynthia in The Sky People heard it, she immediately thought of New Frontier, so that's a Star Trek shout-out.
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