Marvel's Star Trek trivia...something shocking to fans of the wallcrawler (and custodians of the Mouse).
Doom does not appear to be a villain invested in pop culture at first glance. Although he holds tremendous power, he has few actual friends (if any) and the citizens of Latveria obey him out of a complicated mixture of fear, love, and indoctrination brought on by his total control of all Latverian media. Doom has never wanted to destroy the world - but he has always desired to rule it, and as such he might familiarize himself with lesser forms of entertainment (at least in his eyes). But in Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet #2, Doom proves just how much he knows.
In Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos has acquired the Infinity Gems (not stones at this point in the comics), and half the population of the world vanished. The New Avengers, consisting of Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Wolverine, Hulk, and Doctor Doom travel in a space-capable truck courtesy of US Ace travel to the center of the galaxy to find a way to stop Thanos and reverse the damage. As the truck transitions into hyperspace, Spider-Man shouts "Warp factor 9, Mr. Spock!" Doom retorts "Sulu...Sulu set their speed."
Spider-Man is referring to the original Star Trek television series when he erroneously believes Mr. Spock was in charge of the helm of the Enterprise (and makes another error: the original Enterprise couldn't even travel at Warp 9, if one uses the warp scale used in the modern era). Doom is clearly frustrated at Spider-Man's lack of Star Trek knowledge, but perhaps he should keep his expertise to himself; Star Trek is one property that Disney does not own (that honor goes to Paramount). To make matters worse, Stan Lee once insinuated that Star Wars used Doctor Doom as inspiration for Darth Vader's visual design, and Doom knows just as much about that property as he does the others.
There is another takeaway from this : Spider-Man is no longer a millennial. In the past, Peter Parker would've known everything about Star Trek, Star Wars and other science fiction universes - but to a modern-day teenager like him, those properties are old and behind the times. Fitting, then, that Doctor Doom as an adult would be the keeper of knowledge of Star Trek, while Spider-Man would simply resort to mocking him for it.
