00:00We're talking about knowledge of the future in movies, YouTube channel, Easter Egg Psychic.
00:06Alright, it's 1995, and the 20th Century Fox X-Men movies are several years away.
00:13The Marvel Cinematic Universe of comic book-based superhero films are 10 years away.
00:20And I thought I would point out a very interesting, possibly future-leaning, predictive reference
00:28to what appears to be Iron Man.
00:31And you can see this in the 1995 PC computer video game Star Trek The Next Generation A Final Unity.
00:42This was developed by Spectrum Holobyte, an adventure-based game sold on CD-ROM.
00:49The original cast of the Star Trek The Next Generation TV series, which ran between 1987 and 1994,
00:58can be heard in this.
01:00These include Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Yates McFadden,
01:06Marina Sertes, Brent Spiner.
01:08This is the second major away mission.
01:12It takes place on the planet Moratia, the location of a nature preserve.
01:17The aliens appear to be ape-like.
01:19Alright, so in the course of this story, there's an area called the Shuttle Dock.
01:25And note the design of the shuttle craft itself.
01:29I thought this very similar to the helmet of the Marvel comic book character Iron Man.
01:36And you might see this and think, why does it look like that?
01:40But actually, in the future, there would be many links between Star Trek and Marvel-based
01:47films and TV series.
01:49Now, Iron Man, in 2008, kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Jon Favreau and
01:58starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges.
02:03Now, one relevant link, I think, is the fact that both Downey and Doctor Strange actor Benedict
02:11Cumberbatch portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic literary detective, Sherlock Holmes.
02:20Yeah, if you remember some of the next generation stories, Holmes was played by the android Lieutenant
02:28Commander Data as a holodeck fantasy.
02:31Now, Downey was in Sherlock Holmes in 2009, directed by Guy Ritchie, with a cast that included
02:38Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.
02:41Sherlock was another modern retelling of these stories, co-created by Doctor Who collaborators
02:50Mark Gaddis and Stephen Moffat.
02:51This ran between 2010 and 2017 broadcast on the BBC, starring Cumberbatch.
03:00Martin Freeman played Watson in this.
03:02Star Trek's Patrick Stewart later played the mutant mentor, Professor Charles Xavier, in the
03:11X-Men films from 2000.
03:15Actor Chris Hemsworth was another who was in both Star Trek and a Marvel comic book movie.
03:21He, of course, was Thor from the 2011 debut.
03:26This was directed by Kenneth Branagh, with a story by J. Michael Straczynski, co-starred Natalie
03:32Portman, Tom Hiddleston.
03:35In the 2009 Star Trek reboot film, directed by J.J. Abrams, Hemsworth played George Kirk,
03:44father of James T. Kirk.
03:47And in this cast, you'll find Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Winona Ryder, Carl Urban,
03:54Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana.
04:00Yeah, there are others.
04:01Kelsey Grammer, I think appropriate to the theme of this game, mission in A Final Unity, played
04:09Beast in the X-Men films.
04:12And also was a starship captain, Morgan Bateson, whose ship and crew traveled close to 100 years
04:20into the future in the Next Generation episode, cause and effect.
04:26I think actress Majel Barrett is worth mentioning as well.
04:31She originally played the second-in-command on the bridge of the Enterprise in the pilot classic
04:39Star Trek TV episode, The Cage, in 1965.
04:43She was, of course, married to Gene Roddenberry, and her voice was famously used for the computer
04:52in future Star Trek series, including The Next Generation.
04:57She also came back, played the character Loxwana Troy, who's the mother of Enterprise-D counselor
05:05Deanna Troy.
05:07Now, Majel Barrett did some work over the years related to Marvel.
05:11She voiced the character Anna Watson in Spider-Man the Animated Series, 17 episodes, which ran
05:19between 1994 and 1998.
05:22My YouTube channel is Easter Egg Psychic.
05:24There I go back and look at movies and television from the past.
05:28I analyze these for possible references to future media.
05:31These may appear in the form of anecdotes, idioms, anagrams.
05:36Hidden in the subtext of the work in question, I also use an unconventional method where I look
05:41at the likenesses of the actors.
05:45And what I found is you can take the likenesses, match these up to some of the anecdotal items,
05:50and show past, present, and future information about actors and other personalities that may
05:57resemble the personalities in the movie or television episode that you're watching.
06:01My email contact is easteregguy, that's G-U-Y, at yahoo.com.
06:10Thanks for watching.
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