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The first AH story I ever read was a short story in an SF collection that used the Earth being flat as a punchline

The 2D chess reference I like is the subtle one in The Wrath of Khan where we first see Kahn’s living quarters on Ceti Alpha 5. On a table is a standard chess board, in contrast to the 3-D chess that Kirk usually plays. I’m sure that this is fore-shadowing of Spock’s analysis that Khan’s...

In early drafts of Star Wars, Princess Leia had two brothers, called Biggs and Windy. Just imagine that we’ve missed a series of novels about Windy Organa.

Discworld does have several examples of promoted background characters. There’s Ponder Stibbons, who was introduced in Moving Pictures for the sake of a short scene where he takes an exam intended for his roommate Victor (who made a career out of not passing exams). But my favorite is the...

Top of the Pops did a good one when Dexy’s Midnight Runners performed their song “Jackie Wilson Said” in front of a picture of Jocky Wilson

The Journal of the Whills might have vanished from the film, but it did survive long enough to appear on the title page of the original novelization of the movie. So well before most of the Extended Universe. The idea of hyperdrive not working in a gravity well had already appeared in written...

Reference to the DS9 production designer, Herman Zimmerman.

The DS9 production team did sneak in a couple of references to Red Dwarf. The Promenade Directory lists offices for both Diva Droid Corporation and Jupiter Mining Corporation.

“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!” — The Troll, after being kicked off the bridge “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” — Richard III, surprising everyone with his announcement of who his successor would be “That's not a knife… THAT's a...

Not so far.

There’s also some TNG references in the movie beyond Laredo/Wesley. Gwen makes a comment about how in interviews she always gets questions about the engineering of her bra, which is something that Marina Sirtis also complained about. Then there’s Alexander Dane. Dr Lazarus is the Spock...

Asimov wrote a vignette where the qualification was detonating a thermonuclear device. Mind you, the Federation had never encountered a species that was so stupid as to set one off on the surface of their own planet.

The Tomorrow People (or at least the Seventies version) also included several Star Trek features. Most notably, a Galactic Federation that had a strict no contact policy with worlds whose species had not yet developed telepathy. And, while their ability to jaunt made it unnecessary, the TPs...

Now should I like a post when the writer says they don’t like Likes?

You mean the invisible one that lets you edit your account? That’s still there for me. Edit: though I think it’s positioned slightly higher than it used to be