MLP and Star Trek

Yes, this is a serious title.

While reading with Tara, I have acquired a “taste” for My Little Pony, and this has largely been due to all the references found within it.

These are not for kids at all or even (come to think of it) for most adults, but rather for a vague yet specific nerdy subculture.

I came across an extremely specific one recently, where Cosmos (a … well, cosmic villain) utters something while being defeated.

I’ll cut to the chase and tell you that this is something uttered in a specific Star Trek episode. The classic Star Trek (“Wolf in the fold”, 1967)

This is not a generic Star Trek reference (I can share an example of that later). No, if you had watched every episode of the classic Star Trek but this one, you wouldn’t get it.

I have, for better or worse, watched (along with my brother for most of them) and re-watched these episodes about twenty years ago, and it triggered a vague recollection.

The writers clearly enjoy themselves with these series, and I don’t think they’d find similar luck anywhere else. I don’t know, really, where else you’d find a mix of bizarre out-of-the-blue references in the middle of a completely unrelated for-kids-no-really storyline.