Star Trek

Star Trek was a popular American television series later adapted into movie form.


 * Star Trek had many avid followers, who felt thrilled at the debut of movies based on the series. (NA: The Return of the Living Dead)


 * The Doctor explained the chameleon circuit to Grace Holloway in terms of a "cloaking device". (DW: Doctor Who: The TV Movie)


 * Unlike a cloaking device, a TARDIS doesn't simply make itself inconspicuous or invisible. It literally changes.


 * As a young science fiction fan, Izzy Sinclair, watched Star Trek to mentally escape her unhappy home life. (DWM: Oblivion)


 * Rose Tyler compared the Doctor to the Star Trek character Spock, a name Rose later gave the Doctor's own. (DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)

Also, by coincidence, or not, the actual planet Vulcan has the same name as Star Trek's fictional Vulcan (DW: Power of the Daleks). Destrii watched a real life spacecraft design closely resembling that of the fictional Enterprise (DWM: Oblivion)