10 Examples Of Real Pop-Culture In Star Trek

Interestingly, R2-D2 popped up briefly in both the 2009 Star Trek film and Star Trek Into Darkness. In the 2009 film, he can be seen through the Enterprise's viewscreen, after they warped to Vulcan, and, in Into Darkness, he got sucked into space along with several crewmembers when the Enterprise suffered a devastating hull breach.

While these appearances were obviously just little easter eggs that hardly anyone noticed, it's much more fun to take it overly seriously, and pretend like this proves that R2-D2 travelled through a wormhole from a galaxy far far away to be in these films.

So there you have it. Star Wars is officially canon to Star Trek. And it's not just the alternate timeline either, because the Millenium Falcon can actually be seen during the battle with the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact.

All this time we've been arguing over whether Star Trek or Star Wars was better, but we failed to realise that they were in the same universe all along…