The crew is pitted against the original Star Trek cast to win the devotion of an energy creature.
WAR
56.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Where No Fan Has Gone Before” ranks #70 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.9 — Elite. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Melllvar's Mom · Melllvar: Melllvar! Dinnertime! / But, Mom, I'm playing with my collectibles! / Now!
Nimoy: Perhaps you're thinking of my one-Man show... About Vincent van Spock? I mean, van Gogh. Damn!
Nimoy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Koenig: Not just an actor, but a well-Rounded person... With my own friends and credit cards and keys.
Koenig Character Comedy Escalation Zapp Brannigan: Along with that blooper reel where the door doesn't close all the way.
Bender: And we can use this machine gun to shoot them! / Yee-Haa!
Bender Escalation Character Comedy All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Zapp Brannigan: Quiet, you! This court-Martial is now in session. The honorably sexy Zapp Brannigan residing.
Zapp Brannigan: Do you understand the charges? One beep for yes, two beeps for no.
Fry · Zapp Brannigan · Kif: Double yes. Guilty! I will now carry out the sentence. Kif, my gun. / Wait! He pled not guilty! / Order! Order in the court! Very well then, Mr. Fry. Please recount the events that led you to be guilty.
Fry · Bender · Leela: Everybody hit the deck! Shh! Those words are forbidden. What words? Star Trek? Shh! Shut your gills!
Zapp Brannigan · Leela: You mean the vast migration of Star Wars fans? No. That was the Star Wars Trek.
Zapp Brannigan: From a loose association of nerds with skin problems into a full-Blown religion.
Zapp Brannigan: And so the Trekkies were executed in the manner most befitting virgins.
Zapp Brannigan: Along with that blooper reel where the door doesn't close all the way.
Zapp Brannigan: Another classic science-Fiction show cancelled before its time.
Zapp Brannigan: I've never heard of such a brutal and shocking injustice... That I cared so little about.
Bender: She's all yours, buddy.
Bender Character Comedy Visual Gag Fry: You know, 1966? 79 episodes, about 30 good ones.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Nimoy: Perhaps you're thinking of my one-Man show... About Vincent van Spock? I mean, van Gogh. Damn!
Nimoy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nimoy: But I just signed a six-Month lease on my apartment. I can't walk away from a commitment like that.
Nimoy Character Comedy Misdirection Shatner: I'm literally angry with rage!
Shatner Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Leela: But it's set 800 years in the past.
Leela Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: 'Cause it taught me so much. Like how you should accept people, whether they be black, white... Klingon, or even female.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Forbidden, schmur-Schmidden. What are they gonna do, write a letter? I'm so scared! / I've lost control of the ship!
Fry · Nimoy: Oh, dip! / Dip, indeed.
Fry Nimoy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Shatner: I feel like hugging you. Well, I would, except you have no body. And we're both men.
Shatner: We did some musical reunion specials in the 2200s. But the guy who played Scotty had trouble yodeling. Ever since then, Welshie has been a welcome participant in our escapades.
Shatner Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chekov · Fry: Ven vee voke up, vee had these wah-Dies. / Now say 'nuclear wessels'! No!
Chekov Fry Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Shatner · Fry: Check out these abs. / Yowsa!
Zapp Brannigan · Leela: This court will now hear some very sensual testimony... From this court's ex-Lover, Turanga Leela. / Go **** yourself.
Bender: All right, you gas, what's the deal?
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Melllvar: I am Melllvar, Seer of the Tapes! Knower of the Episodes! Tremble before my encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek!
Melllvar · Fry: Until time stops. / What? You can't do this!
Amy · Melllvar: Can people who hate Star Trek leave? Good question. No, you have to stay even longer! Oh!
Melllvar · Shatner: Sign it to Melllvar. Melllvar has three L's. / I think I've done enough conventions to know how to spell Melllvar.
Shatner · Fry: I'm Slim Shady. Yes, I'm the real Shady. All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating. So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up? How can you do a spoken word version of a rap song?
Shatner Fry Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Melllvar · Fry: For 100 quatloos, who did the captain maroon on Ceti Alpha V? / Khan! / Uh, Khan? Correct!
Fry · Melllvar: You have my fan script? / I meant me! Melllvar's the ultimate fan! / Oh, I was confused because the scoreboard says something different.
Leela · Fry · Nimoy: Usually on the show, someone would come up with a complicated plan... Then explain it with a simple analogy. / Hmm. If we can re-Route engine power through the primary weapons... And reconfigure them to Melllvar's frequency... That should overload his electro-Quantum structure. / Like putting too much air in a balloon! / Of course! It's so simple!
Leela: Of course! It's so simple!
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Shatner: Alas, my ship, whom I love like a woman, is disabled.
Chekov · Shatner: Captain, I wope he will welp our vessel. / Wessel!
Shatner: When I directed Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance... Out of Bill because I respected him. And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me... Because I respected me so much!
Shatner Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Okay! I'm done re-ca-foobelling the energy motron, or whatever!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Shatner · Fry: My, what a handsome energy creature you are! I love you. / Hey, you wrote it!
Leela · Fry: It's not working! He's drawing strength from our weapons! / Like a balloon, and something bad happens!
Leela Fry Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Nichols: Yeah! In the third season, I kissed Shatner.
Nichols Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Great list, except you forgot episode 66!
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Great list, except you forgot episode 66!
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Leela: Can we get on with this? My foot's getting tired.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Nimoy · Shatner · Nimoy: You mean Doohan? / Whoever it was, I did it like this. / Ow! My foot's cold.
Bender: And we can use this machine gun to shoot them! / Yee-Haa!
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Sulu · Kirk · Sulu: Just because I'm of Japanese ancestry, you assume I know karate. Have I ever led you to believe I have studied karate? / Well, no. But you never talk about yourself. / Maybe if you showed a little interest.
Takei: Just because I'm of Japanese ancestry, you assume I know karate. Have I ever led you to believe I have studied karate?
Takei Observational Character Comedy Fry · Bender: There's no right way to hit a woman. Then do it the wrong way. Fine.
Fry · Leela: There's no right way to hit a woman. / Then do it the wrong way. / Fine.
Melllvar's Mom · Melllvar: Melllvar! Dinnertime! / But, Mom, I'm playing with my collectibles! / Now!
Nimoy: He's not a child! He's 34!
Nimoy Escalation Character Comedy Fry: We're too heavy! You guys need to lose some weight, fast!
Fry Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Shatner · Nimoy: Look, Leonard, we're light enough to keep the tapes! Isn't that great? / I'm living in a gefilte-Fish jar.
Melllvar: Yes! In mint condition, and you made me take it out of the package!
Shatner: Thanks a lot, Takei. Now everybody knows!
Shatner Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Koenig: Not just an actor, but a well-Rounded person... With my own friends and credit cards and keys.
Koenig Character Comedy Escalation Koenig: Not just an actor, but a well-rounded person... With my own friends and credit cards and keys.
Koenig Character Comedy Observational Melllvar · Koenig: Well, I guess I could move out of my parent's basement... Maybe get a temp job. Whoa. Whoa! One step at a time.
Melllvar · Fry: Episode 10: 'Balance of Terror.' / More like episode nine, loser! / In your face! Victory is mine!
Sulu: A full assortment of rum, both spiced and regular.
Sulu Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry · Shatner: And all you had to put up with was one really annoying Star Trek fan. / Let's get the hell out of here.