Where No Fan Has Gone Before story
"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is the eleventh episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 21, 2002. Set in a retro-futuristic 31st century, the series follows the adventures of the employees of Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company. In this episode, the Planet Express team and most of the main cast of Star Trek: The Original Series face a court-martial after visiting the forbidden planet Omega 3. Directed by: Patty Shinagawa. Story by: David A. Goodman.
14 total · 5 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with an obsessive fan | major | The Star Trek actors had to put up with annoying fans. |
| coping with being famous | major | The Star Trek actors had to put up with annoying fans. |
| cultural history | major | The episode was centered around the Star Trek franchise. [the Star Trek franchise] |
| human vs. captivity | major | Melllvar held the Planet Express crew and Star Trek actors captive on his planet. |
| incorporeal being | major | The incorporeal alien Melllvar held the Planet Express crew and Star Trek actors captive on his planet. |
| disembodied head | minor | The Star Trek actor heads were featured. |
| historical revisionism | minor | The powers that be forbade any mention of Star Trek and people pretended it never was. |
| infatuation | minor | Leela had an abortive tryst with William Shatner. |
| interstellar space travel | minor | The Planet Express crew traveled to the Omega system in search of banned Star Trek tapes. |
| legal occupation | minor | Brannigan court-martialed the Planet Express crew. |