10 Times Futurama Made NO Sense

When Fry wanted to watch the first six Star Trek movies while the Professor was napping, his suggestion was met with nothing but shock and horror. Little did he know that his favourite show had long been banned from the face of the Earth.

In the 23rd century, Star Trek fandom had grown into a fully formed religion, and as the movement began to threaten world leaders, the Trekkies were all put to death. The last known copies of the show were dumped on the forbidden planet Omega 3, and all knowledge of Star Trek was wiped from human memory.

This was the story we were given in season four, however it didn't match up to what we'd seen on Futurama before. In 'Where No Fan Has Gone Before', Fry ran to speak to Leonard Nimoy about the atrocity, but the actor claimed to have no clue what he was speaking about, yet when the two conversed in the pilot, Fry asked Nimoy about Spock's 'live long and prosper' gesture to which he simply stated he didn't do it any more. He didn't deny that he had previously done it, he just simply couldn't do it as a head in a jar.

Then there is 'Brannigan Begin Again' in season two. Hermes described the DOOP in terms Fry could understand, as similar to the Federation from Star Trek. Despite saying the forbidden words that had brought the police down on Fry so swiftly in season four, nothing happened to Hermes. Did the world just forget that Star Trek was banned for a couple of years?