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Futurama, being a comedy science fiction TV show, is bound to make references to other science fiction works. One of the most famous science fiction franchise is the Star Trek series which is one the most referenced things in Futurama. Following is a complete list of connections between Futurama and Star Trek.

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Note: Most of the external links go to Memory Alpha, The Star Trek Wiki

Crew
There have been a number of people who work on both Star Trek and Futurama:

Voices

 * Frank Welker: Provided voice of a screaming child Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, additional voices in the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series, an "alien creature" in "Nothing Human" (Voyager), voices in Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates and Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War. He has done many (namely Nibbler) voices for Futurama.
 * George Takei: He is best known for playing Hikaru Sulu, though has also done Megan spirits, Hikaru Sulu (mirror), Kuri and an unnamed USS Huron male lieutenant'. He has voiced himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" and Bender's Game.
 * Nichelle Nichols: She is best known for playing Uhura, though has also done Uhura (mirror), Karla Five, Dara, Anne Nored, Alice, an unamed female Ursinoid Miner, Devna, Kali, Magen, Delta Theta III entity and Sarah April. She has voiced herself in "Anthology of Interest I" and "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
 * Stephen Hawking: He has portrayed himself on Star Trek a few times. He voiced himself in "Anthology of Interest I" amd The Beast with a Billion Backs.
 * Sarah Silverman: Portrayed Rain Robinson in episodes Future's End (VOY) and Future's End, Part II (VOY). She provided the voice of Michelle in Futurama.
 * Bumper Robinson: Portrayed unamed Jem'Hadar teenager in The Abandoned (DS9). He voices Dwight Conrad in Futurama.

Other

 * David A. Goodman: "Writer" for Star Trek: Enterprise. He got the job as a writer on Enterprise because of his writing for the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
 * Tim Simonec: "Conductor" and "Principal Orchestrator" for 2009's Star Trek (film). He has done some musical work on Futurama aswell.

Star Trek in Futurama
Star Trek has appeared in Futurama on many occasions:

Season 1

 * A variant of Three-dimensional chess, Three-dimensional Scrabble, appears in this episode.

Season 2

 * Captain Musky is a tribute to Christopher Pike.

Season 4

 * Universe 1 is similar to the Mirror universe in Star Trek.
 * Star Trek also has Alternate timelines and Parallel universes.

This episode is almost entirely based on Star Trek which is why, due to amount of references, this section is dedicated to the one episode:
 * A character created to replace James Doohan as Montgomery Scott in the cast was named Welshie. He (or more specifically, the actor who played him) was killed, dismembered, and vaporized by three separate blasts from a cloud creature named Melllvar. This is reference to the Redshirt.
 * In addition, the Democratic Order of Planets (D.O.O.P.) has a military force composed of men in red uniforms, who are often utilized as cannon fodder.

Films
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Other

 * Stories about "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" appears in Star Trek Monthly issue 93 and Star Trek Monthly issue 105.
 * "Whispers" (Deep Space Nine) is the favorite Star Trek episode of David X. Cohen, who says he finds it has "a slightly Futurama-esque storyline."
 * The Futurama exhibit, which Futurama was named after, was visited by Benny Russell while at the New York World's Fair in July 1940 in the novelization of the episode "Far Beyond the Stars" (Deep Space Nine).

Futurama in Star Trek
Futurama has appeared in Star Trek (though no where near as much as Star Trek in Futurama) on several occasions: