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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'':
** Geordi LaForge was named for one of the activist fans who helped the original series get its third season, the late Starfleet Admiral George LaForge.
** Several anime fans in the production staff sneaked various references in; one of the most blatant were the "exocomp" robots from "The Quality of Life". [[Word of God]] admits that their design was [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|inspired]] by the ''[[Dirty Pair]]''{{'}}s [[Robot Buddy]], Nammo. Kei and Yuri from the same series are named on various props, and a battle simulation in the episode "Peak Performance" is named "Operation Lovely Angel."
*** "Kei-ee, Yur-ee..." is also used as the beginning of a Ferengi access code in one episode.
*** And the Ferengi word for "mother" is "Mughi", the same as the name of the Dirty Pair's nonhuman sidekick.
** A piece of tech used by a geologic survey team in ''Pen Pals'' is actually the Oscillation Overthruster from ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]''.
** The names of Clare Raymond's descendants in the Season 1 episode "The Neutral Zone" are [[William Hartnell]], [[Patrick Troughton]], [[Jon Pertwee]], [[Tom Baker]], Peter Davidson and [[Colin Baker]]. Save for one misspelling, these are the names of the first
** The Enterprise has a sister ship called the ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato|Yamato]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': ''The Magnificent Ferengi'' was a homage to ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''. Also, in one episode the characters recite the first two lines of the Edwin Starr song ''War''.
** In the pilot, Bashir borrows Odo's hand for some impromptu first aid—an allusion to the film ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]'', in which the same thing happens to Rene Auberjonois' character.
** There is also of course the well
** A kiosk
** And another entry for the local office of [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Yoyodyne_Propulsion_Systems Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems], [[wikipedia:Yoyodyne|a reference to]] [[Thomas Pynchon]] via ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]''. In-universe, Yoyodyne built several components of the Federation's starships.
** The character "Morn" is largely a background character in Quark's bar; his name is an anagram of "Norm," in homage to another familiar heavyset barfly, from ''[[Cheers]]''.
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