Editing Where no man has gone before (section)

==Outside ''Star Trek''==
The phrase has also gained popularity outside ''Star Trek''. In 1989, NASA used the phrase to title its retrospective of [[Apollo program|Project Apollo]]: ''Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions''.<ref>W. David Compton, "[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/contents.html Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412224332/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/contents.html |date=12 April 2011 }}", NASA Special Publication-4214, NASA History Series, 1989. URL accessed 15 August 2006.</ref>

The phrase has become a [[snowclone]], a [[rhetoric]]al device and type of [[word play]] in which one word within it is replaced while maintaining the overall structure. For example, a 2002 episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' that dealt with a character's devotion to ''Star Trek'' is named "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", a level in the video game ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time]]'' is called "Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before".<ref>[http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/manuals/manuals/tmnt4.zip Instruction manual] for ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time'' at [http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/ Gamers Graveyard].</ref> The [[Italians|Italian]] [[astronaut]] [[Samantha Cristoforetti]] became the first barista in space on the [[International Space Station]], [[Twitter|tweeting]] "To Boldly Brew..." in May 2015; she wore Star Trek garb for the occasion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/04/space-italy-coffee-astronaut-espresso-cristoforetti|title=To boldly brew: Italian astronaut makes first espresso in space|first=Associated Press in Cape|last=Canaveral|date=4 May 2015|website=the Guardian}}</ref>

The phrase was referred to sarcastically on the retail box of the 1987 computer game ''[[Space Quest I|Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter]],'' which read "His mission: to scrub dirty decks...to replace burned-out lightbulbs...TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO MAN HAS SWEPT THE FLOOR!" (emphasis original).<ref>[http://games.gamepressure.com/game_info.asp?ID=2355 "Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter &#91;PC&#93;"]. gamepressure.com. Retrieved 19 May 2013.</ref> In 1992, [[Apple Computer|Apple's]] [[Star Trek project]], a port of their [[Mac OS 7]] operating system to Intel x86 processors, was similarly referred to as "the OS that boldly goes where everyone else has been".{{Citation needed|reason=Previous citation, ComputerWorld, 2 November 1992, does not contain this reference (see archive.org).|date=February 2021}} Likewise, in the sci-fi show ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the character [[Susan Ivanova]] implies that a woman is promiscuous by telling Captain [[John Sheridan (Babylon 5)|John Sheridan]], "Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where... everyone has gone before."<ref>[[J. Michael Straczynski|Straczynski, J. Michael]]. "[[Voices of Authority]]". ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Season 3, Episode 5. 29 January 1996</ref>

The [[split infinitive]] "to boldly go" has also been the subject of jokes regarding its grammatical correctness. British humorist and science-fiction author [[Douglas Adams]] describes, in his series ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the long-lost heroic age of the Galactic Empire, when bold adventurers dared "to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before".<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Douglas|title=The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|publisher=Pan Books|year=1979|isbn=0-330-25864-8|url=https://archive.org/details/hitchhikersguide00doug}}</ref> In the 1995 book ''[[The Physics of Star Trek]]'', [[Lawrence M. Krauss]] begins a list of ''Star Trek's'' ten worst errors by quoting one of his colleagues who considers that their greatest mistake is "to split an infinitive every damn time".<ref>{{cite book|last=Krauss|first=Lawrence M.|title=The Physics of Star Trek|publisher=HarperPerennial|year=1995|isbn=978-0-465-00559-8|url=https://archive.org/details/physicsofstartr000krau}}</ref>