Every Star Trek Reference In Futurama
23. Nichelle Nichols In Anthology Of Interest I
The Anthology of Interest episodes of Futurama take a step away from the shows usual formula to deliver three short imaginary stories. The episodes are similar in style to the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes but without the horror. This is done using a machine that The Professor has developed called The Wahit-If Machine. a device that can show them alternate lifetimes that answer any what-if questions they have.
In the third story of Anthology of Interest I Fry asks what would have happened if he had never been frozen. In the alternate timeline, he narrowly avoids being frozen but sees the future through a hole in the space-time continuum. While telling this to his boss he is overheard by Stephen Hawking, who happens to be a regular at Fry's workplace, Panucci's Pizza.
Fry is abducted on his way home and introduced to the group the Vice Presidential Action Rangers. One of the members of this group is Nichelle Nichols who is shown in full Original Series costume. The story ends with Fry accidentally destroying the universe and him and The Rangers, which also feature Hawking, Al Gore, Gary Gygax and Deep Blue, playing dungeon and dragons for a quadrillion years.