Where No Fan Has Gone Before

"Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
Futurama episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 11
Directed by	Pat Shinagawa
Written by	David A. Goodman
Production code	4ACV11
Original air date	April 21, 2002
Opening caption	"Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
Opening cartoon	"Hiss and Make Up" by Merrie Melodies (1943)
Guest appearance(s)
William Shatner Leonard Nimoy Walter Koenig George Takei Nichelle Nichols Jonathan Frakes
Season 4 episodes
January 2002 – August 2003 "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" "Leela's Homeworld" "Love and Rocket" "Less Than Hero" "A Taste of Freedom" "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" "Jurassic Bark" "Crimes of the Hot" "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" "The Why of Fry" "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" "The Sting" "Bend Her" "Obsoletely Fabulous" "The Farnsworth Parabox" "Three Hundred Big Boys" "Spanish Fry" "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
List of Futurama episodes

"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.

An existing idea to feature the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series was scrapped and replaced with a new script written by David A. Goodman, after the newly hired writer was identified as the biggest Star Trek fan on the staff. All of the main cast of The Original Series agreed to appear, with the exception of DeForest Kelley (who had died in 1999) and James Doohan, resulting in the creation of a new character called Welshie. "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" was received positively by critics, with praise directed at the various Star Trek homages. The script was nominated for a Nebula Award, losing to The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Fry learns that Star Trek has been forbidden since the show became a worldwide religion in the 2200s; all of its fans were killed during the Star Trek Wars and the "sacred" tapes of its 79 episodes and six movies were burned, with the sole remaining copies sent to the forbidden planet Omega 3. Outraged, Fry takes Leonard Nimoy's head from the Head Museum and convinces Bender and Leela to join him in a mission to recover the Star Trek tapes from Omega 3.

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