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** 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.

** 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 6 actors to play [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]].

* ''[[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''.

** There is also of course the well known [[Shout-Out]] in the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" where the two officers that Temporal Investigations sent to investigate Sisko et al.'s time travelling had names that were anagrams of "Mulder" and "Scully".

** A kiosk lisitng businesses on the Promenade contained an entry for "Tom Servo's Used Robots". a reference to the character from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.

** The character "Morn" is largely a background character in Quark's bar; his name is an anagram of "Norm," in homage to another familiar barfly, from ''[[Cheers]]''.

** Lounge singer Vic Fontaine is a tribute to [[Frank Sinatra]] right down to having an episode that is basically a tribute to ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]''. And [[What Could Have Been]]: They even had Frank Sinatra, Jr. in mind for the role (but he didn't want the part).

** There is a linked pair of shout outs involving ''Star Trek'' and ''Seaquest''. In one Next Gen episode, an on screen computer readout lists the service record of a crewman to have included the "USS Seaquest". In one Seaquest episode, an alien falls to it's death next to a memorial commemorating the launch of the "Nomad" probe (referencing a probe that appeared in the original Star Trek series).

** In the episode "The Omega Directive", Seven of Nine sets up a system for capturing the Omega particle, and refers to the crew by numbers. The person who is most unhappy with this arrangement is the one assigned the number [[The Prisoner|Six of Ten.]]

** In the series premiere, "Broken Bow", Admirals Forrest, Leonard and Williams are shout-outs to DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy and [[William Shatner]], respectively, who, of course, played McCoy, Spock and Kirk in the original series. Admiral Forrest, named after Kelley, had the most screen time throughout the series, most likely because Kelley had died in 1999, just a year or so before production began.

** In the season 1 episode "Oasis," Trip sarcastically stretches the like "What do you do then? Program a holographic doctor?" *cough* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' *cough*.

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