Basingstoke has been referenced in a popular television soap.
Eagle-eyed watchers of Emmerdale would have heard Basingstoke mentioned in casual conversation in Café Main Street during an episode on Thursday, October 2.
The soap, which averages four million views per episode, mentioned Basingstoke as the set of 'a Star Trek convention', two minutes and 20 seconds into episode 10,406.
Character Marlon Dingle said: “You know Granny Mary’s a massive Star Trek geek? Yeah well, she’s gone to a convention in Basingstoke. She set off first thing.”
Later, it was revealed she was dressed as a Klingon as she set off in her car, which Marlon joked that character Rhona Goskirk could borrow.
Emmerdale, set in the fictional village of the same name in the Yorkshire Dales, is a five-and-a-half-hour drive from Basingstoke, and while there is no Star Trek-specific convention in Basingstoke, the town does host the Comic Con Connections, formerly Basingstoke Comic Con.
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