Star Trek has always used the idea of aliens and other planets as allegories for different Earth cultures, and if Gene Roddenberry had lived in a different era he might have written more about food.

Marc Okrand was hired in 1982 to write dialogue in Vulcan for this already-shot-in-English scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan featuring Kirstie Alley and Leonard Nimoy. Linguist Marc ...

In 1966 a television show called Star Trek made its debut, introducing fans of the show to a character named Spock, who hailed from a planet named Vulcan, which orbited a star called 40 Eridani A.