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Buckaroo Banzai and several other members of Team Banzai are prominently featured in the Battletech universe, a science fiction world taking place in the 31st century. It is not clearly explained how they find themselves in the future other than some sort of time warp, either intentional or inadvertent, but he occupies himself in that era as a professor at the New Avalon Institute of Science on the world of New Avalon within the Federated Suns successor state and is also a Battlemech designer, having designed the Hatchetman and Axeman mechs according to the sourcebooks Battletech Technical Readout 3025 and Battletech Technical Readout 3050. He is also featured as a character in some of the Battletech novels written by Michael Stackpole.
Many of the crew involved in Star Trek, especially the incarnations made during the 1990s, were fans of Buckaroo Banzai and frequently included or inserted 'in-jokes', often in on-screen graphics not entirely visible to the audience. Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki, has a list of these.
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