The Promenade in Star Trek Deep Space 9 has some businesses you wouldn't expect.

When in production in the 90s I'm guessing staff never assumed this would become public. (A Thread)

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Jupiter Mining Corporation is the organisation that abandoned it's ship Red Dwarf after an accident killed all the crew bar Lister (yes even Kochanski) and Diva Droid is also from the Red Dwarf Universe, it's the corporation that built Kryten.

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Diet Smith is a rich inventor from the Dick Tracy universe.

Spacely's Space Sprockets is where George Jetson works.

Cavor's Gravity Devices is probably refering to Dr Cavor, in H G Wells "The First Men in the Moon".

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Forbin Project is a reference to the novel Colossus (and the movie Colossus, the Forbin Project)

Tom Servo's Used Robots is from Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

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Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Milliways is the restaurant at the end of the universe from the same universe.

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@selzero That movie was terrible. It will never compare to the awesomeness that was the 6-episode BBC TV series

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