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Not exactly filk as filk purists would prefer it, but certainly not created by the franchise owners, so I suppose it counts. In the same way that Star Trekkin (Across the universe) would have counted if I hadn't already ruled out Trek. For anyone who wants to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

OK, Mr Brain is on strike so let's do something simple. Let's have five SF works in any medium that have inspired FILK SONGS - a good example here is the famous(ish) song Banned in Argo by Leslie Fish, based on the Star Trek universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_Argo http://www.ovff.or...

Well, if it counts there's always Star Wars Down Under (2013), a half-hour long fan film someone made with a serious effects budget - made it to IMDB which I think counts as being something like a real movie. Features things like Ned Kelly armour stormtroopers, kangaroo mechs, light-boomerangs, the ...

On The Beach (1957, film 1959, TV movie 2000) by Nevil Shute - the classic "We're all going to die of radiation poisoning but let's try not to make a fuss about it" story set in the aftermath of WW3, almost entirely in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film) http...

Damn - I just realised that I've actually WRITTEN something that would probably qualify - a Forgotten Futures role playing adventure called Free Nessie which is set in and around Loch Ness in the Professor Challenger (Lost World etc.) universe. Oh well, too late now! https://www.forgottenfutures.com...

Rule 34 (2011) by Charles Stross; a near-future police procedural involving AI, organized international crime, and porn, set in Edinburgh after Scottish independence. A sequel to the earlier Halting State (2007), which is also set in post-independence Edinburgh but has slightly fewer SF tropes. A t...

Doom (1993) and sequels? Mars is a research base for experiments in teleportation, unfortunately the experiments open a dimensional breach leading to an invasion from Hell. Not sure of the long-term effects, don't think they ever went beyond the Earth, Mars and its moons, and Hell, but the tech is ...

The Mass Effect computer game series. The back-story is that human explorers find an ancient alien base on Mars in 2148, which leads to the discovery of the "Mass Relay" - a gigantic machine that is the main mass of Pluto's moon Charon - and lets them reach other solar systems, meet intere...

Prior to your last (2010) hint: the best box-office movie, Avatar (2009), humans remotely control the avatars (genetic replicas of the native population). Bonus: the main character "merges" with his avatar in the end. Yes, that one definitely counts - and in response to Rockdoctor's query...

A little more on the examples I mentioned: Late 1950s novel by a British author later described as a "Terrorist's Handbook". Described as such by Terry Pratchett Late 1940s to early 1990s novel and story series by an American author with relativistic interstellar travel. Planets are named ...

And there's at least one literary example prior to WW1

Some suggestions Late 1950s novel by a British author later described as a "Terrorist's Handbook". Late 1940s to early 1990s novel and story series by an American author with relativistic interstellar travel. Early 1970s novel with an alien's corpse under human control. 2010s TV series epi...

In "Doctor Who and the Daleks", Ian Chesterton disguises himself as a Dalek. The Doctor and his companions manage to overpower one, open it up, and scoop out the creature inside; Chesterton is able to climb into the casing and, at least to a degree, drive it around. That was indeed one of...

I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned some fairly obvious ones from books and TV - I can think of at least three others that haven't been mentioned yet.

Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Visions short story titled The Repairman. took me a while to find this , i remember the story but not where i had read it... Hyperspace Beacon stops working and our guy gets sent to fix it. Finds a reptilian race has built a pyramid around the beacon and worship it. ...