I show a possible predictive easter egg to actor Alan Ruck as Enterprise-B captain John Harriman in Star Trek Generations ('94). You can see this in 1983 techno thriller Wargames. Matthew Broderick stars in this and was later in Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986 with Ruck. In the scene with Broderick's character's introduction in Wargames he can be seen playing 1981 Namco arcade game Galaga. There may be some references to Star Trek in the Galaga series, a bonus enemy seen in the Challenge stage, called the "starship" may resemble Star Trek's USS Enterprise (saucer section, main hull and two warp nacelles on pylons).
There are many connections to later Star Trek movies & TV series via Wargames:
- Actor James Tolkan acted in 1985 sci-fi comedy Back To The Future with Star Trek III: The Search For Spock ('84) Klingon Christopher Lloyd.
- Tolkan was also in 1987 fantasy action film Master Of The Universe with Robert Duncan McNeill who later played Tom Paris in the Voyager series ('95-2001).
- There are 2 arcade cabinets for TRON ('82) in the Wargames arcade. David Warner starred in the movie that made early use of computer graphics. He later had many roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, & movies Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
- Ally Sheedy later acted in John Badham's comedy Short Circuit (1986). G.W. Bailey was in this cast and also played a mall cop in Mannequin (1987). Kim Cattrall played a shop window dummy / clotheshorse come-to-life and was also Vulcan bridge crew in Star Trek VI.
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