Episode Capsule: [4ACV11] Where No Fan Has Gone Before

Title: Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Written by: David A. Goodman
Directed by: Pat Shinagawa
Opening theme promotion: Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Opening theme cartoon: Hiss and Make Up (Warner Brothers, 1943)

Synopsis

<img src="/assets/imgs/episodeGuide/4ACV11.jpg" border="1" align="LEFT" width="70" height="107"> Fry is put on trial for his life for traveling to the forbidden planet of Omega 3 to retrieve all 79 episodes of "Star Trek", and he must defend the claim that human kind needs "Star Trek" to give them hope for the future. In the 23rd Century, "Star Trek" fans had evolved to such a level that they corrupted the world's governments and all things "Star Trek" were then banned to Omega 3. Fry sets out on his mission with Leela, Bender and Leonard Nimoy's head in a jar, only to discover William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koening are living on Omega 3 under the watchful eye of Melllvar, an evil energy creature -- and "Star Trek's" biggest fan.

Voice Credits

Starring

Billy West (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg)
Katey Sagal (Leela)
John DiMaggio (Bender)
Tress MacNeille

Guest Starring

William Shatner (himself)
Leonard Nimoy (himself)
Walter Koenig (himself)
George Takei (himself)
Nichelle Nichols (herself)
Jonathan Frakes (himself)
David Herman

Also Starring

Maurice LaMarche (Melllvar)

Did You Notice…

Leela is barefoot in the witness chair? (Eww, what smells like boot feet?) — Alan Hamilton
Planet Express ship is refitted with Federation engines? — Alan Hamilton
Melllvar creates a reasonable replica of the original series bridge. The navigation station wasn't in two parts, and Uhura's station is in the wrong place, though? — Alan Hamilton
Phasers firing from the Planet Express ship just like the Enterprise. They even diverged at the ship yet converged at the target, just like the Enterprise? — Alan Hamilton
Bender works in a Jeffries' Tube? — Alan Hamilton
Sparks flying from control panels during an attack? — Alan Hamilton
Shatner rips his shirt, like he always does in a fight? He also makes it with an alien babe? — Alan Hamilton
The nerd executioners using "He's dead, Jim."? That's McCoy's catch phrase. — Alan Hamilton
Stock fly-bys of the Planet Express ship identical to those used in TOS? — Alan Hamilton
Nimoy is no longer greeting visitors as they enter the Head Museum. He is moved to a normal shelf. — Michael Nissen
Professor Farnsworth isn't shown in this episode? — haleys_comet
The clouds on Omega 3 are a mauve colour? — haleys_comet
Bender just hears the police-hovercar, but knows excactly wich one it is. — Daniela Schad
Inside of the Church of Trek you can read "Ceiling of the Christine Chapel closed for renovation". — Daniela Schad
Bender's torso expanded after Fry was shoved inside him. — haleys_comet
With Welshy there were six ex-Star Trek castmembers stranded on Melllvars world. But they are bording the rocket from Earth only five heads are in the ship. Welshy is missing. — Lina Linck

External References

Star Wars

The Star Wars Trek — Alan Hamilton Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jonathan Frakes (William Riker) appears and is happy that he doesn't have sit in second row anymore. — Alan Hamilton Space: 1999
Tapes shot out of an Eagle spaceship — Alan Hamilton Xena: Warrior Princess
Uhura's war cry and fighting style — Alan Hamilton Star Trek (the original series)
well, DUH. The whole thing. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek Music score
The Background music is very similar — Alan Hamilton "Mary Sue" fan fiction
There is a disturbing amount of fan fiction where the day is saved by a thinly-veiled version of the author. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Cage
Wind chimes background sound on Omega Three. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Balance of Terror
"In a different reality, I could have called you 'friend'." — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Fry incorrectly identifies this as the episode for the above quote. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Court-Martial
Court martial set similar, including bell. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Menagerie
Court martial set. — Alan Hamilton
Christopher Pike's wheelchair, one beep for yes, two for no. — Alan Hamilton
Death sentence for visiting Omega Three (Talos Four). — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Squire of Gothos
Melllvar's mom shows up, just like Trelane's parents do. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Arena
Gave Melllvar the idea of putting the Enterprise crew in a fight to the death. — Alan Hamilton
The only weapons, whatever you can find. Bamboo appears. — Alan Hamilton
Leela and Shatner fight on a rocky outcropping identical to one in this episode. — Alan Hamilton
Leela holds a big rock over Shatner, like the Gorn did over Kirk. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Space Seed
Who did the captain maroon on Ceti Alpha Five? "KHAAAAANNNN!!" — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: This Side of Paradise
Spock gets high on spores and smacks Kirk around. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The City on the Edge of Forever
Time portal appears. — Alan Hamilton
"Let's get the hell out of here." — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Metamorphosis
One of the five with energy beings. — Alan Hamilton
Energy being captures passing ships. — Alan Hamilton
The Trek cast is being kept as a companion to an energy being, which gives them ageless perfect health. — Alan Hamilton
Melllvar's cheesy sparkle effect similar to the Companion's. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Friday's Child
Crudely made bows and arrows. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Who Mourns for Adonis?
Scotty hit by lightning. — Alan Hamilton
Giant hand grabs the ship. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Wolf in the Fold
One of the five with energy beings — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Changeling
Scotty hit by lightning. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Trouble with Tribbles
"And Scotty beamed them to the Klingon ship, where they would be no 'tribble' at all." — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Bread and Circuses
Gladiator TV show set appears. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Journey to Babel
"Ambassador Sarek's Trivia Challenge" — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Gamesters of Triskelion
Colored brains appear. — Alan Hamilton
Wagering in quatloos. — Alan Hamilton
Gave Melllvar the idea of putting the Enterprise crew in a fight to the death. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Obsession
Melllvar surrounds Nimoy's jar like the cloud creature surrounds the jar of blood. — Alan Hamilton
Melllvar is a gaseous energy creature, like this one. — Alan Hamilton
One of the five with energy beings. — Alan Hamilton
Dramatically yelling "FIRE" before hitting the fire button. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: A Piece of the Action
"Fliver" car. — Alan Hamilton
Bender's tommy gun. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Patterns of Force
"Welcome to Nazi-Planet-Episode Land - Formerly Germany" — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Spectre of the Gun
Old West sets appear. — Alan Hamilton
Gave Melllvar the idea of putting the Enterprise crew in a fight to the death. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Day of the Dove
One of the five with energy beings. — Alan Hamilton
Fry points out that Melllvar overlooked this as an episode where the Enterprise crew is in a fight to the death. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Plato's Stepchildren
Nichols: "In the third season, I kissed Shatner." — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
White/black and black/white people in the Church of Trek congregation. — Alan Hamilton
Self-destruct code. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Lights of Zetar
One of the five with energy beings. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: The Savage Curtain
Gave Melllvar the idea of putting the Enterprise crew in a fight to the death. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (movie)
Tapes shot into space like Spock's coffin. — Alan Hamilton
"You are and always shall be my friend." — Alan Hamilton
Who did the captain maroon on Ceti Alpha Five? "KHAAAAANNNN!!" — Alan Hamilton Star Trek III In Search of Spock (movie)
Rescue mission to forbidden planet. — Alan Hamilton
Self-destruct code used again. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (movie)
Directed by Nimoy. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek V The Final Frontier (movie)
Directed by Shatner. — Alan Hamilton
Uhura's fan dance. — Alan Hamilton Church of Scientology
The sci-fi religion that does take all of your money — Alan Hamilton Star Trek (various)
Melllvars ship looks like a cross between a Romulan and Klingon Bird-Of-Prey. It has a cloaking device as well. — Michael Nissen Star Trek TOS: The Corbomite Maneuver
The last picture of Kif, resembles the fake image Balok used of himself. — Michael Nissen I Am Not Spock / I Am Spock (Books written by Leonard Nimoy)
See comments. — Michael Nissen Star Trek (various)
Leonard tries to use the made up move from Star Trek (Vulcan neck pinch) — haleys_comet Jim Carrey
Bender: Lets take these six Jim Carrey movies and record over them! — haleys_comet Star Trek (the original series)
Crew-members in red shirts regularly died on away missions. Also Welshy is a red-shirted crew-member and dies. — Daniela Schad Eminem
Shatner sings the rap song 'Slim Shady' in word version. — haleys_comet Star Trek TOS: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Episode title: Where No Fan Has Gone Before — haleys_comet Star Trek TOS: Shore Leave
Kirk fights against an old rival (actually a mirage) in a desert setting and gets his shirt ripped like he had here. — Matty Jorissen Star Trek TOS: The Naked Time
We get to check out George Takei's abs while he fences. — Alan Hamilton Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (movie)
Chekov saying "nuclear wessels". — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Fry incorrectly identifies this as the episode for the "In a different reality" quote ("Balance of Terror"). — Alan Hamilton Star Trek TOS: Balance of Terror
Dramatically yelling "FIRE!" before pressing the fire button. — Alan Hamilton

Futurama References

[1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000

Nimoy appears for the first time, as a head-in-a-jar. — Michael Nissen [2ACV16] Anthology of Interest 1
Nichelle Nichols appeared as one of the Action Rangers — Joe25 [2ACV08] Raging Bender
Planet of the Clams is now out on video — Alan Hamilton [2ACV18] The Honking
Fry inside Bender — haleys_comet

Freeze Frame Fun

sign outside the Church of Trek: 
THE SCI-FI RELIGION THAT DOESN'T TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY

T-shirt of nerd getting killed:
Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here.

Video shop:
Rent-A-Wreck
   Video

Videos inside:
* The Yawning
* Werewolf Dog
* Pippi Longstockings
* Planet of the Clams
* Moon Meen from Mars
* Galaxy Wars

Outside the Brandenburg Gate:
WELCOME TO
NAZI-PLANET-
EPISODE LAND--
FORMERLY GERMANY

Ouside the Head Museum:
NEXT LICE CHECK: 4 PM

WELCOME TO TREKFEST 3002

AMBASSADOR
 SAREK'S
  TRIVIA
CHALLENGE

Animation, Continuity, and Other Goofs

Star Trek was mentioned in some previous episodes with no penalty. — Joe25
In "Space Pilot 3000" Fry calls Nimoy Spock and asked him to make "this Vulcan finger-thing". But Nimoy doesn't try to say he don't know anything about Star Trek and Spock, like he tries it in "Where no Fan has gone before". — Daniela Schad

Comments and Other Observations

"George and Walter will have to share." The show didn't have the budget in the second season for both Koenig and Takei, so they had to switch off episodes. — Alan Hamilton
"Another classic science fiction show canceled before its time." Fox's airing of Futurama has been very irregular, and they did not order any new episodes for 2002/2003. — Alan Hamilton
"Like, how you should respect everyone, be they black, white, Klingon, or even female." Trek's use of women and minorities was quite radical for 1966. In the original pilot, the first officer was supposed to be the female "Number One", but the network forced them to change it. They still got a lot of complaints about Uhura. — Alan Hamilton
According to Solow and Justman's Inside Star Trek (an absolute must-read for any Trek fan...) the suits were not unhappy that Number One was female, but that the married Roddenberry was casting his mistress in the part. When he later turned her into a blonde and stuck her back into the show as Chapel, they weren't exactly thrilled, either. — Geoduck
Looks like the head at FOX didn't attend enough Star Trek conventions: Someone spelled Melllvar just 'Melvar' in the press release. — Marc Wichterich
In "A Head In The Polls" Bender says that his self-destruct mechanism is on his body, indicating it's a mechanical device. Now it's a simple voice-activated device. Maybe an upgrade? — Michael Nissen
In 1975, while TOS was shooting for the stars and fast achieving cult status, Nimoy wrote a book titled "I Am Not Spock". It was an attempt by Nimoy to distance himself from his role as Spock, to avoid being typecast "alien". Mentioning many of his other achievements as an actor, the book was anti-Spock, but in a friendly way. Still it alienated some fans. Later Nimoy realised, though he was a respected director and wellknown actor, he couldn't escape his most famous role, and wrote the book "I Am Spock". Here Nimoy tells how he values Spock, the impact the role has had on his life and his fondness of the character. The scene in the headmuseum between Nimoy and Fry reminded me of these two books. First Nimoy tries to steer away from Spock, and talk about his other achievements as an actor, but latter admit that he can't escape it. — Michael Nissen
James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott) didn't participate in this episode, so his character was replaced by Welshy. However, DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) did appear, although Kelly died in 1999. — Alan Hamilton

Original capsule author: Alan Hamilton