Star Trek Episodes Based On Non-Trek Movies

Just as “Macrocosm” isn’t the only sci-fi classic Star Trek borrowed from, The Thing isn’t the only John Carpenter film the franchise was inspired by. The Voyager episode “Alice” is a 24th-century version of Carpenter’s 1983 film Christine, which adapted the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Christine stars Keith Gordon as the unpopular teen Arnie, obsessed with restoring a 1968 Plymouth Fury, who he gives the name “Christine” and which we eventually learn is possessed by a demonic spirit.

Meanwhile, in “Alice,” Tom Paris salvages an advanced shuttle from a Delta Quadrant junkyard and soon it’s the only thing he cares about. He spends every waking hour–and plenty he should be asleep during–working on the shuttle he names Alice. The shuttle is possessed by a malevolent intelligence that appears before Tom as a human woman that only he can see and hear.