Star Trek parodies and pop culture references ( prose ) The following are " Star Trek " parodies and references in prose - based literature . " 3001 : The Final Odyssey " . In the fourth ( and final ) part of ' s " Space Odyssey " saga , Dr . Frank Poole ( played by Gary Lockwood in the film version of " 2001 : A Space Odyssey " ) is revealed to be a " Star Trek " fan , having asked autographs from Leonard Nimoy and Patrick Stewart as a teenager . When choosing 20th century television programs for him , 31st century scientists selected episodes from " all the four " Star Trek " series " ( the novel was published in 1997 , long before the debut of ) . " The 4400 " . In " The 4400 " tie - in novel " Wet Work " by frequent " Star Trek " authors Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore , a character notes he is a fan of pulp - science fiction magazines like Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder . " Angels & Demons " . In ' s to , Robert Langdon comments that he has " sort of " heard of antimatter , to which Vitoria Vetra responds , " you watch " Star Trek " ? " Langdon agrees and asks " isn ' t antimatter what powers the starship " Enterprise " ? " Langdon later holds back from asking about " Captain Kirk using Photon torpedo es against the Klingon s . " " Animorphs " . The sci - fi children ' s book series features many references from " Star Trek " , like a character called the Ellimist , who is based off Q and the novel , an alien race called the Hawjabrans , who have freighters that look a little like the , and the females of an alien race called the Ongachic , who look like Worf . Additionally , several of the characters in the series are fans of " Star Trek " and make comparative references , such as Dracon beams being comparable to phaser s and the Andalite law of " Seerow ' s Kindness " as being a version of the Prime Directive . " A Thing of Beauty " . ( Written by Lisa Samson ) The father of main character Fiona Hume is mentioned to have starred in a sci - fi parody movie called " Galaxy Goons " in which he played a character named " Captain Quirk " . " The Beach " . An early chapter is called " It ' s life Jim , but not as we know it " ( from the well - known parody song " Star Trekkin ' " ) . It involves the narrator playing pretend that his train sleeping bunk is a spaceship while waiting for sleep , though no further specific references are made in the chapter . " Bloom County " . Some of the gang frequently played , with Cutter John as James T . Kirk , Opus ( and Steve Dallas briefly ) as Spock , Portnoy as Montgomery Scott , and Hodge - Podge as Hikaru Sulu . " Buffy the Vampire Slayer " . In the novel " Sons of Entropy " , Xander thinks of himself as Riker to Buffy ' s Picard . A plot twist sees him describe himself as more important , like Kirk , Picard , Sisko and Janeway , although he corrects himself on Janeway , who he described as talking like a Conehead and a fashion sense Xander could not understand . " Cryptonomicon " . The character Avi Halaby mentions the , " no relation to the token Asian on " Star Trek " " . ( In reality , Hikaru Sulu " was " indeed named after the sea ) . Later in the book , Randy Waterhouse worriedly compares having explained the strategy of his dotcom bubble company to a person he perceived to be a hick to a Federation scientist beaming down to a primitive planet and thoughtlessly teaching the locals how to build a phaser cannon . It ' s also remarked that while Waterhouse hates " Star Trek " and also people who don ' t hate it , he has seen every episode . A few hundred pages later , Randy muses that it ' s hard for him to engage Goto Dengo , a captain of industry and personal friend of general Douglas McArthur , in chitchat , because you can hardly just ask if he has seen the latest episode of " Star Trek : More Time - Space Anomalies " . Near the climax of the book a number of characters venture into a Phillipines jungle , the cannopy of which is said to emmit " a phantastic whistling noise , like a phaser on overload " . " The Dresden Files " . The written by contain several references to and about " Star Trek " . " Double Dexter " by Jeff Lindsay . Dexter comments that he has to be " Mr . Spock - logical " at one point , and then observes that public relations work is as alien to his stepsister Deb as a Klingon mating dance . " Fatal Judgment " . ( Written by Irene Hannon ) US Marshal and FBI agents are described as " working at warp speed " . " Flow My Tears , the Policeman Said " . In the dystopian future of this 1974 novel by , superhero - action space pulp fiction works are called " Captain Kirk s " . " The Girl who played with Fire " . Lisbeth Salander is called mister Spock . " The Hardy Boys " . " Star Trek " has been referenced numerous times in " The Hardy Boys " novel series , published by Simon & Schuster , the company behind the " Star Trek " novels . Most recently in The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers # 25 " Double Trouble " , where Joe Hardy sarcastically compares his older brother , Frank , to " Mr . Spock " , and most notable in The Hardy Boys # 172 " Trouble in Warp Space " , in which the Joe ' s girlfriend gets a walk - on part in a new TV series called " Warp Space " , an obvious reference to . " Hawk ( The Quiet Professionals , book 2 ) " . ( Written by Ronie Kendig ) Boris Kolceki , a computer hacker , recalls Data singing about " " tiny little life forms " " . " Hidden Falls " . ( Written by Olivia Newport ) A man sees his son watching something on a sci fi channel and asks if it ' s " Star Trek " . The son replies that it ' s " Battlestar Galactica " . " The House of Night " ( Marked ) . Zoey , one of the main characters , admits to being a " Star Trek " fan , and had a " Borg Invasion 4D " hoodie . " I Love You , Beth Cooper " . Denis ( whose father is played by Alan Ruck in the movie version ) calls his medical skeleton " Doctor McCoy . " " The Jungle : A Novel of the " Oregon " Files " by Clive Cussler . MacD says that the " < nowiki > Oregon ' < / nowiki > " s op center is reminiscent of the " Enterprise " and that Juan ' s chair in the middle of it ( which Juan referred to as the " Kirk Chair " ) is where Chris Pine sat , prompting Juan to realize he was too out - of - touch to know there ' d been a new Trek movie . " The Killing Star " . In " The Killing Star " by Charles R . Pellegrino , the invaders use " Star Trek " as an example of why humans are dangerous ( due to the show being human - centered ) . " Leverage " tie - in novels . Keith R . A . DeCandido authored one . " The Con Job " by Matt Forbeck . The cast of has a reception at the San Diego Comic - Con , where Marina Sirtis has to explain to two attendees why Patrick Stewart can ' t officiate their Wedding . " The Bestseller Job " by Greg Cox . Hardison observes that concocting a sequel to Gavin Lee ' s book is as a much of a tease as the idea of new episodes of " " Mad Magazine " ( # 115 , Decem " . At the end , he tells Parker that the place where the cast had put their hands in the concrete of Grauman ' s Chinese Theater in Hollywood is sacred ground . " Night of the Living Trekkies " . A comedy - horror novel about a zombie outbreak at a Trek convention . The YouTube trailer for it says it is set at the " Botany Bay Hotel & Convention Center " and features a reporter named " Natasha Yar " . " Omicron Ceti III " . The title of ' story , and the anthology volume it is featured in , is named after the planet from . " The Onion " . The satirical newspaper " The Onion " frequently makes references to " Star Trek " . One of its recurring columnists , an obnoxious sci - fi fan named Larry Groznic , sometimes mentions the franchise - in addition to occasionally mentioning meetings with " Trek " actors such as John de Lancie and Marc Alaimo , he boasts in the October 15 , 2001 issue of writing a crossover with " Back to the Future " in which Doc and Marty secretly assist Kirk and Spock in ( evidently forgetting the resemblance Doc bears to someone of Kirk ' s acquaintance ) , while in the April 10 , 2003 issue , in harshly criticizing someone for his decision not to learn , he wonders if that person would even bother to learn a language as simple and inelegant as Klingonese . The paper has also made light of ' s well - known status as a " Trek " fan - three weeks after the release of ( a video on its website showed a faux newscast in which numerous Trekkies leave the theater with harsh words for the " " fun , watchable " " film ) the front page of the May 26 , 2009 issue included a picture of Obama giving a press conference with fake Vulcan ears , with " Obama Addresses Nation Still Wearing Spock Ears " in a caption below , while in the December 9 , 2009 issue , amid the uproar following the of a Virginia couple ' s at a state dinner , an " infographic " revealed numerous other White House security breaches , including the accessing of sensitive information by thousands of people ; this was blamed on the fact that Obama ' s passowrd , " NCC - 1701 " , was not a terribly difficult one to crack . " Pale Kings and Princes " by Robert B . Parker . Adapted into a TV movie starring Avery Brooks ( who reprises his role Hawk from the TV show " Spenser : For Hire " with Carolyn McCormick ) and Barbara Williams . When Felipe Esteva asks Spenser " " Do you know who I am ? " " , Spenser replies " " Ricardo Montalban . I loved you in . " " " Pursued " . Book 3 in " The Nikki Boyd Files " by Lisa Harris . A character is said to have attended a " Star Trek " convention with his girlfriend . " Quarry in the Black " by Max Allan Collins . Leonard Nimoy is stumping for George McGovern during the tail end of the 1972 Presidential election , and Quarry frequently refers to him as Spock . When Nimoy refers to McGovern as his costar , Quarry has to be reminded that he ' s not speaking about William Shatner . " Redshirts " . " Redshirts " is satire of almost every episode , with Wil Wheaton mentioned in the dedication epigraph and narrating its audiobook . The Universal Union , Space Fleet , Captain Lucius Abernathy , Q ' eeng , Anatoly Kerensky , Chief Medical Officer Hanson , and Chief Engineer West are all parallels of the United Federation of Planets , Starfleet , James T . Kirk , Spock , Pavel Chekov , Leonard McCoy and Montgomery Scott . When explaining why their lives are so dangerous , Jenkins puts up a picture of the " Enterprise " and says that they ' re living in a poorly - written TOS knockoff . Upon time - travel ing back to 2012 Los Angeles , Brian Abnett says to Duvall that somebody has to be the redshirt . " Serge A . Storms " novels of Tim Dorsey . " Torpedo Juice " . Serge prefaces all his journal entries like a Captain ' s log complete with Stardate . " The Big Bamboo " . One of Serge ' s demands for the return of Ally Street is the death of the person sitting behind him at a screening of for saying that Spock dies at the end . " When Elves Attack " . Serge mentions that movie conversations get steered towards subjects like . Jim Davenport is also compared to Spock . " Shatnerquake " . " Shatnerquake " is a novel by noted author . The story involves actor William Shatner being trapped at a convention at which he is forced into mortal combat against all the characters he has ever played , including multiple versions of James T . Kirk . " Snow Crash " by Neal Stephenson . It is said one can ' t beam into the Metaverse like James T . Kirk , and later Hiro notes that most hackers have pictures of the starship " Enterprise " on their walls . Also , L . Bob Rife purchased the aircraft carrier " Enterprise " from the United States Navy and made it his own personal yacht . " Star Wolf " . A series of sci - fi novels by David Gerrold about a hard - luck starship in the middle of an interstellar war also intended to be a TV series at one point . " The Middle of Nowhere " . A crewmember says that they found the imp that had been sabotaging them dead inside an " Okuda tube , " possibly a Jefferies tube - style compartment named for Michael Okuda . " Blood and Fire " . A reworking of a episode rejected due to overarching homosexual thematics and an AIDS metaphor . The new captain of the " Star Wolf " is said to have been previously posted on " The Big E , " which is also said can ' t be risked on the front lines due to potential loss of morale if she ' s destroyed . A dead crewmember found on the " Norway " is named " M . Okuda . " " Star Wreck : The Generation Gap " . This mass - market paperback was first released in 1990 . It is a tongue - in - cheek parody of the " Trek " universe , written by Wisconsin native Leah Rewolinski , with illustrations by Harry Trumbore . Six sequels followed . The books mainly center upon spoofs of the TOS and TNG series , with books six and seven spoofing DS9 as well . The seven released titles in the series were : " The War Against The Chtorr " . A series of sci - fi novels by David Gerrold about an alien ecological invasion of Earth . " A Day For Damnation " . A scientist says she ran a " Sternbach - Okuda " test on an alien organism . " Timeline " . This time travel novel by Michael Crichton novel features an introduction in which the supposed reality of some of the science of the book is discussed . At one point , the phrase " beam me up , Scotty " is used in relation to the concept of teleportation . " Turtles all the Way Down " . Novel by John Green who admits to being a fan of the franchise himself . The protagonist , Aza Holmes is a Trekkie . " Warp " . A novel by Lev Grossman about a twentysomething who relates to the world through " Star Trek " and other references . The original cover featured the " USS Enterprise ( NCC - 1701 - D ) " . " When A Heart Stops " . Book by Lynette Eason . At one point during the novel , a character ' s blood is said to run at warp speed through her veins . " Wilderness Rising " . By A . L . Shields . A character ' s eyebrow is said to rise like Mr . Spock ' s .