Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill and Ted watch this episode on television."Saturday Night Clive" Episode #4.1 (TV Episode 1991)
A clip from Arena is shownStar Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition (TV Special 1991)
Features several clipsConeheads (1993)
This episode is being watched at the start of the filmWilliam Shatner's Star Trek Memories (Video 1995)
Clips shown
"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Trials and Tribble-ations (TV Episode 1996)
Sisko mentions Kirk fighting the Gorn on Cestus III."Family Guy" The Kiss Seen Round the World (TV Episode 2001)
Neil plays a video of the fight between Kirk and the Gorn (animated recreation)."Futurama" Future Stock (TV Episode 2002)
"KIRK" and "GORN" appears on the stock-tracker, in reference to the characters from this show."Futurama" Where No Fan Has Gone Before (TV Episode 2002)
Bender asks Melllvar where he got the idea to pitch everyone in a fight to the death from and he says "Episodes 19, 46, 56 and 77" of Star Trek to which Fry replies "You forgot episode 66!". Not counting the pilot episode (as this episode does) then this is episode 19. Melllvar tells Fry, Leela, Bender and the "Star Trek" cast that they can use only what they can find for weapons.Nerf Herder: Mr. Spock (Music Video 2002)
Lyrics are a reference to this episode: "Captain Kirk went to the planet And there he fought the man lizard".
"The Outer Limits" Fun and Games (TV Episode 1964)
Based on the same Fredric Brown's short story "Arena."
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
One sequence duplicates the camera angles and editing from "Arena" which Bill and Ted had just been watching.Free Enterprise (1998)
Young Robert's fight with the bully, and his refusal to hurt him after he knocks him down. Also reenacted by Robert and Claire in costume.Galaxy Quest (1999)
Captain Taggart is on a harsh rocky desert plant and is told to "build a weapon"."Duck Dodgers" Deathmatch Duck/Deconstructing Dodgers (TV Episode 2004)
The segment "Deathmatch Duck" parodies much of the plotline of Arena"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" A Space Oddity (TV Episode 2009)
The fight with the lizardlike humanoid in the beginning spoofs - and re-enacts - parts of the fight between Kirk and Gorn from the Episode "Arena"
"The Outer Limits" Fun and Games (TV Episode 1964)
based on the same Fredric Brown's short story "Arena"