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Star Trek References in Pokémon

As you may or may not know, the people at Star Trek love anime, and the people at Pokémon seem to like Star Trek.

Almost for certain references:

"The Problem with Paras"

As you may have guessed, this is a play on that episode featuring the only thing in the universe that multiplies faster than Pokémon, "The Trouble with Tribbles" (which is probably the most parodized episode title of all time).

Clefairy Tales

The "scientist" in this episode asks an eyewitness if the "aliens" beamed him aboard.

Very possible references

The plot of Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back and Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Warning: The following is a very complete run-down of the plot of the movie. It is full of spoilers, plot info, and gouda cheese. I've put Star Trek equivalents in parentheses.

Mewtwo (V'ger, really the space probe Voyager VI), a highly advanced Pokémon created by Team Rocket (NASA, who incidentally build rockets), is searching for the meaning of its existence. Upon realizing their interference, Mewtwo (V'ger) intends to rid the Earth of humans (carbon units). In the movie Mewtwo takes in a female servant, Nurse Joy (Lieutenant Illea), a constant recipient of affection from Brock (Captain Decker). A stubborn boy (man), Ash Ketchum (Admiral Kirk, notice the first-letter similarity) seeks to keep Mewtwo from killing off humankind. Ash receives a great deal of help from Pikachu (Spock, after all, they both have pointy ears). At the end of the movie, Mewtwo, having learned an important lesson, goes off on another journey (enters a higher level of being).

Note: Okay, so this is a bit radical, but if Pokémon II is released, and I find out Ricardo Montalban (Kahn, see below) has a voice role, I'm gonna boldly Pokéball go insane.

The Plot of Pokémon the Movie 3: Spell of the Unkown and the Plot of Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

I'll just make a laundry-list here:

-A giant crystal structure (quarantine) forms around Molly's house (the Genesis Planet).
- Entei (the Klingons) take possesion of Molly (Spock) and Delia Ketchum (Lt. Savvik)
- Molly (Spock) is subject to rapid aging.
- Molly's house (the Genesis planet) starts out pretty, but eventually just self-destructs.
- Ash Ketchum (Admiral Kirk) defies the orders of Professor Oak (Starfleet Command) and goes to Molly's house (the Genesis Planet).

And Get this: The next movie has time travel!

Lugia

You all know how there were humpback whales in Star Trek: IV? Well, Lugia sounds like one. Not to mention the fact that the whole point was to stop climate problems (just like in ST4).

Somewhat possible references:

Viridian City

I didn't think much of this reference, until I spotted it in two movies. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock uses a Viridian (not sure on spelling, could be "Veridian". The captioning says Viridian, but I don't completely trust it.) patch to locate Kirk on Rura Penthe, a Klingon penal colony. Then, in Star Trek: Generations, Veridian (that's the correct spelling, note the difference) was the name of the star Soran destroyed, or rather tried to destroy (stupid time-has-no-meaning-here Nexus).

Brock

Brock may be a tribute to Brock Peters, who played Admiral Cartwight in Star Trek IV and VI, and Captain Sisko's father on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Almost totally unlikely references:

Kangaskahn

Much more likely to be referring to Genghis Kahn, there is a very small possibility it is referring to Kahn Noonien Singh (Space Seed, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn).

Ditto

While probably meaning also, its name does bear an interesting resemblance to the shape-shifting security chief of DS9, Odo.

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