Star Trek was very simple to follow during Stranger Things, as only one TV series and a handful of movies from Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise existed. Stranger Things is set during the 1980s; season 1 kicked off on November 6, 1983, and season 5 begins on November 3, 1987.

Although Netflix's global phenomenon created by the Duffer Brothers is steeped in the pop culture of the 1980s, the young cast of Stranger Things , including Mike (Winn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp), Max (Sadie Sink), and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), don't reference or seem to watch Star Trek.

Star Trek is, instead, a spiritual influence on Stranger Things. The absence of Star Trek and Star Wars, the two biggest sci-fi franchises, is due t

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