be desired," with David Bowman's helmetless spacewalk in 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired by Frank Keene's escape from the pirate base the novel. |- | Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids|| 1953 || Novel || Juvenile science fiction penned by Isaac Asimov. |- | The Space Pirates|| 1969 || Television serial || A Doctor Who serial starring the Second Doctor. The TARDIS materializes in the midst of a pitched battle between space pirates and the Army Space Corps. The pirates dismantle space beacons for their scrap value of a rare material. |- | "The Pirates of Orion"|| 1974 || Television episode || An episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, the crew of the USS Enterprise are threatened by a band of space pirates. In the episode, these Orions are shown to be ruthless pirates, As such, some recommended this episode for featuring the trio of characters Kirk, Spock, and Bones of The Original Series. Later, the Orion Syndicate was mentioned in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but no actual Orions were seen, only members of other species. |- | The Pirate Planet|| 1978 || Television serial || A Doctor Who serial starring the Fourth Doctor, written by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams. A band of space pirates use their own planet to drain the life force of other planets by materializing around them, the Captain has a giant robot parrot. |- | The Ice Pirates || 1984 || Film || Space pirates raid cargo vessels carrying ice, in a system where water is scarce. |- | Metroid series|| 1986–present || Video game || Space pirates are the series' primary enemies. |- | Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon||1989|| Video game || Roger visits a variety of locations, including a fast food restaurant called Monolith Burger and a desert planet called Phleebhut. At the latter, he encounters trouble, as Arnoid the Annihilator (an Arnold Schwarzenegger-like android terminator) persecutes him for not paying for a whistle acquired in Space Quest II. From the information he picks up there and at Monolith Burger, Roger eventually uncovers the sinister activities of a video game company known as ScumSoft, run by the "Pirates of Pestulon". |- | Planet Pirates series|| 1990–1991 || Novel || Trilogy of novels by Anne McCaffrey. |- | Sol Bianca|| 1990-1991 || Original video animation || The name of the 1990 OVA is