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== ''[[Raumpatrouille (TV)|Raumpatrouille]]'' and ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' are derived from the same future source. ==

At the end of the ''Raumpatrouille'' episode he appeared in, Sciene Fiction author Pieter Paul Ibsen stated that he will from now on only write about the ''Orion'' crew. And this is exactly what he did - after attaining access to a [[Time Travel]] device and arriving in the [[The Sixties|1960s]]. Here, he pitched the story about an intrepid star ship crew to the Bavaria Atelier GmbH in Germany, as well as to the [[Desilu Studios]] in the USA, the latter together with a young author named [[Gene Roddenberry]], who was currently trying to work out the details of his own story concept (called by him ''[[Wagon Train to Thethe Stars]]'') when they first met.<ref>Later, he traveled even further back in time, changed his first name to [[Henrik Ibsen|Henrik]], abandoned the Sci-Fi genre altogether, [[You Will Be Beethoven|and instead became a famous playwright]]. But that's a story for another day...</ref> Of course, any attempt to tell which of both shows will turn out to be the more accurate depiction of humanity's spacefaring future is futile (yet). Perhaps both versions are merely [[Broad Strokes]]. But let's make a few assumptions:

* Cliff Allister McLane ([[Raumpatrouille (TV)|RP]]), and James Tiberius Kirk ([[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|TOS]]) are based upon the same person.

* Tamara Jagellovsk (RP), Number One (TOS - ''The Cage'') and T'Pol ([[Star Trek: Enterprise (TV)|ENT]]) are based upon the same person.

* The planet Chroma (RP - ''Kampf um die Sonne'') didn't make it into TOS, but as Angel I into an eponymous first season [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|TNG]] episode.

* The episodes ''Planet außer Kurs'' (RP) and ''The Doomsday Machine'' (TOS) are based upon the same event. While the Planet Killer in the latter episode never headed towards Earth, the motif of an enormous and seemingly unstoppable object directly threatening our home planet appears several times within the Trek franchise, e.g. in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'', ''[[Star Trek IV: theThe Voyage Home (Film)|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'', TNG - "The Best of Both Worlds", ''[[Star Trek Nemesis (Film)|Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', ENT - "Countdown", and ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]] (2009)''<ref>By the way: While it was more an im- rather than an explosion, the destruction of Vulcan in this movie happened to look quite similar to the effect the Overkill weapon has when fired onto a planet. One wonders if "Overkill" and "Red Matter" are synonymous...</ref>.

* While where are talking about ''Planet außer Kurs'': The ''Orion VII'' dying a fiery death and afterwards being replaced by the ''Orion VIII'', a ship that looks and is named almost identically, is reminiscent to the fate of the ''Enterprise NCC-1701'' (''[[Star Trek III: theThe Search For Spock (Film)|Star Trek III the Search For Spock]]'') and Kirk's subsequent command of the ''Enterprise NCC-1701-A'' (''[[Star Trek IV: theThe Voyage Home (Film)|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'').