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* Dr. McCoy's famous line [[I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder|"I'm a doctor, not a _____!"]] from ''[[Star Trek]]'' actually originates in the 1933 film '' The Kennel Murder Case'', where a coroner insists repeatedly "I'm a doctor, not a ____!" (reporter, detective, etc.).
** Similarly, the Borg's famous line "Resistance is futile" was used earlier in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[Lost in Space]], and probably other sci-fi. (The variant "Resistance is useless" was used by the Vogon guard in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''.)
** The "delta" emblem used in the logo of the United States Space Force originated in 1941, has been used by US military space programs since 1961, and was used in the logo for USSPACECOM since its inception, while Star Fleet's asymmetric curved arrowhead emblem was devised in 1964. Accusations that the Space Force had ripped off the ''Star Trek'' logo were so numerous, and had been printed in enough major publications as definitive without fact checking or requests for comment, that the Space Force actually issued an official press release explaining the symbol's origin and use history.
* One episode of ''[[The 4400]]'' had as its plot the possibility of the entire premise of the show being an illusion, causing complaints from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fans that it was stealing from the latter's episode "Normal Again". Or from ''[[Red Dwarf]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Back To Reality", or from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Frame of Mind". Or ''[[Neverwhere]]''. As it happens, the plot ([[Cuckoo Nest]]) is actually among [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]], with classic examples such as Ambrose Bierce's 1886 story "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge," or Chuang Tzu's tale of the man who dreamt he was a butterfly.
** On the subject of Chuang Tzu, there is a scene in the 1986 version of ''[[The Fly]]'' where Jeff Goldblum describes himself as an insect who dreamed he was a man. This was intended as a Chuang Tzu reference, but many people just thought he was referring to the "unsettling dreams" in Kafka's "Metamorphosis."
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