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96 unusual facts about Star Trek


26734 Terryfarrell

Initially designated 2001 HG16, the asteroid was given its present name by the International Astronomical Union in honor of American actress Terry Farrell, who is best known for playing Jadzia Dax on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

8th millennium BC

In 2268 of Star Trek: The Original Series, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid called Yonada is actually an inhabited multi-generation ship of millions of people.

Adam Nimoy

His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, The Practice, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Sliders, Gilmore Girls, and The Outer Limits where he directed his father in the episode "I Robot".

Alan Ruck

He also played Captain John Harriman of the USS Enterprise-B in the 1994 film, Star Trek Generations, a role which he has reprised along with Generations co-star Walter Koenig and other Trek alumni in the fan film Of Gods and Men.

Alpha Waves

Computer Gaming World stated that the game "plays like one would expect a Star Trek: The Next Generation "holodeck" game to play".

Anson Williams

He has gone on to direct many episodes for a variety of television series, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, seaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed.

Atavachron

The album's title and seventh track, as well as the cover art, are references to the "Atavachron" alien time travel device from the Star Trek episode, "All Our Yesterdays".

Building Sites Bite

The cousins then stage a series of elaborate fantasies which are presented as though real: they are in charge of a Star Trek-style teleporter which they use to send Ronald into various building sites and other dangerous areas to look for his lost dog, Snoopy (a Yorkshire Terrier).

Channel Chuckles

One Channel Chuckles gag was a caricature of Mr. Spock from Star Trek receiving letters requesting advice on child-rearing (a reference to Doctor Benjamin Spock).

Christopher Neame

Neame is one of the few actors to have appeared in Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and Earth 2.

CITY-DT

Citytv has traditionally pursued a programming strategy targeting hip, young and urban audiences, and featuring science fiction series (such as the Stargate and Star Trek franchises) with significant cult followings.

Colony 5

The band's name is a reference to a location mentioned in the second Star Trek episode, Charlie X.

Demographic profile

For instance, shortly after the cancellation of Star Trek in 1969, NBC's marketing department complained that was premature.

Digimation

Digimation's models have been featured in motion pictures including The World Is Not Enough, Pushing Tin, Star Trek: Insurrection, Independence Day, Air Force One and Godzilla.

Don Mankiewicz

He was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for I Want to Live! Among his many television credits are Ironside, for which he wrote the pilot, the original Star Trek (episode "Court-Martial") and the mini-series adaptation of President John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage.

Enchantress from the Stars

Engdahl wrote parts of Enchantress in the 1950s; many concepts in the novel date from that time, prior to Star Trek and other 1960s science fiction.

Ezri Dax

In Pocket Books' non-canon DS9 Relaunch novels, Ezri remains on Deep Space Nine but moves from counseling to command, receiving a promotion to lieutenant and becoming executive officer of the USS Defiant.

Gabriel Köerner

As a VFX artist, he fulfilled his lifelong Star Trek dream by working on the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise.

Game Refuge Inc.

Star Trek: Voyager – A light-gun arcade game set in the Star Trek universe, with new enemy characters created by Game Refuge.

Geoff Perlman

Perlman first became interested in programming at age 10 while watching Star Trek and learning about the technology of the future.

Geordi La Forge

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown (which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film), Geordi (now a commander) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

George Clayton Johnson

He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap".

Gerd Oswald

His television credits include Perry Mason, Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, Star Trek, Gentle Ben, It Takes a Thief, and The Twilight Zone.

Herbert Jefferson, Jr.

In 2007 he played Captain Gault, a freedom fighter, in the Star Trek internet mini series Of Gods and Men.

Highly Illogical

Highly Illogical is an album which contains a collection of songs performed by Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy.

James A. Contner

His work includes episodes of such television series as Miami Vice, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Star Trek: Enterprise.

Jennifer Hetrick

She is known for playing Vash in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Corinne Becker (the ex-wife of Arnie Becker) on L.A. Law.

Jim O'Heir

O'Heir has appeared in several television shows throughout the 2000s, including Malcolm in the Middle, Just Shoot Me, Star Trek: Voyager and ER.

Jim Rygiel

After Boss Films closure he went on to supervise The Parent Trap, Star Trek: Insurrection, Anna and the King, and 102 Dalmatians.

Joyce Muskat

Joyce Muskat was one of only four writers with no prior television credits able to sell a script to Star Trek: The Original Series (David Gerrold, Judy Burns, and Jean Lisette Aroeste were the other three).

Kevin Carvell

However, Carvell would have some satisfaction at last when numerous elements of this script would make their way to not only to ST: TNG and DS9, but to Star Trek: Voyager as well.

Kool Moe Dee–LL Cool J feud

LL responded on his 1990 album Mama Said Knock You Out with "To Da Break of Dawn"; where he makes fun of "Star Trek shades" (referring to Kool Moe Dee's characteristic eyeglasses), and also attacks both MC Hammer and Ice-T for dissing him on records.

Korinna

The typeface has been used as for the main titles of the Star Trek films; Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact.

Las Vegas Monorail

BankWest debuted a red "MoneyRail" branded train, and joined Nextel Communications (now a part of Sprint Nextel Corporation), Hansens Beverage, and Paramount Studios (with a Star Trek themed train) as corporate sponsors.

Marine World/Africa USA

A few other shows such as Cowboy in Africa, Gentle Ben, as well as an episode of Star Trek ("Shore Leave") were also shot there.

Mark Lund

In 2007, Lund appeared as Commander Steven Conner in Star Trek: Odyssey in their pilot episode "Iliad".

Michael Van Wijk

He once stated on Gladiators that his favourite television show was Star Trek.

Microviridae

The Star Trek episode The Vengeance Factor includes a reference to a microvirus that is genetically engineered to attack nerves of the parasympathetic system.

Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Excelsior-class starship USS Al-Batani sic NCC-42995, mentioned on Star Trek: Voyager as Kathryn Janeway's first deep space assignment, is named after him.

Ned Romero

His credits include appearances in Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Custer, Police Woman, Land of the Lost, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ironside, Death Valley Days, and Emergency!.

Nude wedding

Nude weddings are the norm in the fictional Betazoid culture in Star Trek because of their ability to see thoughts and emotions of others.

Obi Ndefo

He is a graduate of Yale University's drama school and has also appeared on such television series as Angel, The West Wing, The Jamie Foxx Show, Stargate SG-1, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

Of Gods and Men

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, a three-part unofficial Star Trek fan mini-series

Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek

The film, which is the eighth and final in a series of films featuring Alışık as Ömer the Tourist, is commonly known as Turkish Star Trek because of plot and stylistic elements parodied from Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Man Trap (1966) as well as the unauthorized use of footage from the series.

One Step

The lyrics even contain a reference to Star Trek, with the line "sex with you passes by as fast as Starship Enterprise".

Phillip Pine

In a career that spanned seven decades, Pine was best known for portraying the character Colonel Phillip Green in the classic Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain" Pine was in the second episode of "The Outer Limits" entitled "The Hundred Days of the Dragon".

Pico House

The Pico House was featured prominently in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two part episode "Time's Arrow", filling in as turn of the 18th and 19th to 20th century San Francisco.

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

Quicksilver Software

In 2005, the company once again worked on a Star Trek title, Star Trek: Tactical Assault for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, published by Bethesda Softworks.

Ralph Helfer

The compound was also used as location for shows such as Daktari and even an episode of Star Trek "Shore Leave".

Reef triggerfish

A reef triggerfish appeared (in animated form) in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rascals".

Reichsführer-SS

The Star Trek episode Patterns of Force depicts an alien planet where a historian has recreated Nazi Germany in an attempt to form a benign fascist government marked by efficiency without sadism.

Rhadamanthus

In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Magicks of Megas-tu, Rhadamanthus is invoked by the character Lucien in order to make the Enterprise operational in an alternate universe in which magic works like science does in our universe.

Robert April

Commodore Robert April is mentioned in the computer game Star Trek: Legacy during the early part of the TOS campaign, where he is still in Starfleet service in 2270.

Roxann Dawson

In 1994, Dawson began her role as the half Human/half-Klingon engineer B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager which lasted for all seven seasons of the show.

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Roxann Dawson (née Caballero) is an American actress, producer, and director, best known as B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager.

Ruth Roberts

She was the mother of Michael Piller screen writer/producer best known for the television series Star Trek and Dead Zone.

Saint Louis Science Center

From October 2011 until May 2012, the main building is hosting Star Trek: The Exhibition, a major showcase of Star Trek props, costumes and artifacts, including a full-size bridge from the USS Enterprise.

Space Pirates and Zombies

Weapons from Babylon 5 and Star Trek were added to the game, whenever the team saw examples which were not emulated within the game they attempted to create them.

Space Twins

Initially, the band was a small project in which the two would dress up in Star Trek style outfits with pipe-cleaner antennae, playing silly songs at kids' birthday parties.

Space: 2099

Space: 2099 was also the title of an unrelated project spearheaded by Eric Bernard, a fan of the original series who intended to retool it with a goal similar to that accomplished with other science-fiction series such as Star Trek or The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition.

Spizzenergi

The BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel described "Where's Captain Kirk?" as... "the best Star Trek associated song".

Star Trek: A Time to...

It deals with the aftermath of a vicious battle in the Rashanar sector during the Dominion War that left the area littered with the remains of many ships.

Star Trek: Klingon Empire

DeCandido envisioned his characters being "played" by certain actors: he wrote Lokor with Keith Hamilton Cobb in mind, Lucy Lawless was his inspiration for Leader Wol, and André the Giant was the inspiration for Bekk Goran.

Star Trek: New Worlds

Star Trek: New Worlds is set in the year 2287, shortly after the events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

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Star Trek: New Worlds is a strategy game published in 2000 by Interplay in which the player can choose to command the forces of the United Federation of Planets, Klingons or Romulans.

Star Trek: Phaser Strike

The Star Trek name was later dropped and the game was sold as just Phaser Strike.

Star Trek: Starship Creator

The program was designed with input from Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, Rick Sternbach, and Doug Drexler, who were responsible for many of the technical or reference-oriented books produced for Trek.

Star Trek: The Experience

With the on-screen participation of Trek series cast members Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo, and numerous actors in realistic makeup and utilizing well designed props and sets, the threat of assimilation by the Borg seems palpable.

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Mayor Oscar Goodman stated in a news conference on October 16, 2008 that a possible deal was being negotiated between CBS and Rohit Joshi, developer of the Neonopolis Mall.

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It opened in January 1998, closed in September 2008, and was scheduled to reopen in the Neonopolis Mall on May 8, 2009 in time for the premiere of the Star Trek film.

Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative

The plot is based on the idea that Starfleet is replacing the Kobayashi Maru scenario with a new test based on a mission from the Enterprise logs.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual

Most notably, a concept drawing from the manual describing an emergency landing of the saucer section was seen by TNG writers Ronald D. Moore, Jeri Taylor, and Brannon Braga who wanted to use a saucer crash as a sixth-season cliffhanger episode for the TV series.

Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints

Created by Rick Sternbach, these are large fold-up blueprints of the interior of the USS Enterprise-D.

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They also transferred the ink-drawings of the exterior of the ship, which had been used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, to the computer for greater detail since the plans were going to be so much larger this time.

Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

Helmsman Hikaru Sulu fires a barrage of four torpedoes at what appears to be a false image of the Romulan vessel.

Star Trek: The Rebel Universe

The Rebel Universe concerns a 100 light year diameter volume of space where every Federation starship that enters ends up mutinying and defecting to the Klingon Empire.

Star Trek: Titan

In Decipher, Inc.'s Star Trek Customizable Card Game, Titan is identified as a Prometheus-class starship.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact

The Typhon Pact itself has been compared to the Warsaw Pact, and one of the books in the series has been described as an allegory for the Arab Spring.

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Empire magazine considered the Typhon Pact to be the franchise's version of the Warsaw Pact, with the Federation playing the part of NATO.

Starfleet Command

Star Trek: Starfleet Command, a 1999 space battle simulation game set in the Star Trek universe

Surgically implanted explosive device

The 1990 science fiction television episode ‘Reunion’—the 81st in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (original air date of 5 November 1990)—features a BCB, used in an attempted assassination.

Susan Gibney

She had a recurring role as Assistant District Attorney Renee Walcott on Crossing Jordan and her portrayal of Dr. Leah Brahms on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Commander Erika Benteen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Susan Sackett

Susan Sackett is an American author and screenwriter, best known for her involvement in the Star Trek franchise.

The Calling

"Wherever You Will Go" was heavily used by UPN in 2001 in advertisements to promote the debut of Star Trek: Enterprise.

The Transformed Man

It was released in 1968, while Shatner was still starring in the original Star Trek series, and began his musical career.

Tiny Ron Taylor

He has also appeared on television, including seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Hupyrian manservant Maihar'du, and two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as the Hirogen alpha Idrin.

Tom Towles

Towles' television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld and Firefly.

Tomás Ó Fiaich

One critic, writing in The Sunday Independent, compared Ó Fiaich's altar to something from the set of Star Trek.

Tucker Smallwood

On television, he has been a regular and made guest appearances on many series, including Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Friends, and The Sarah Silverman Program.

Tyce Bune

Bune appeared numerous several mainstream film and television productions, including the film Mr. Saturday Night with Billy Crystal, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Schisms.

VOY

Star Trek: Voyager, a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans

Warcraft: Lord of the Clans is a novel by Star Trek novelist Christie Golden based in Blizzard Entertainments Warcraft Universe.

William Douglas Lansford

Lansford wrote many teleplays for American television series such as Four Star Playhouse, Wagon Train,Bonanza, The Rookies, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Xbox Games Store

Various films and TV shows wee available for purchase in the Video Store, including both past and present series, such as Star Trek and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Yogi Rock

Images of Sojourner approaching Yogi used in the opening credits of Star Trek: Enterprise made that television program the first science fiction television or film production in history to use footage taken on another planet.


Andy Mangels

Mangels and Martin co-wrote a series of novels serving as the official continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise following the television series' cancellation.

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Cress Williams

He portrayed Talak'talan, a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar".

Digital Extremes

Digital Extremes developed the game for the Star Trek Into Darkness movie, working with Namco Bandai and Paramount to develop Star Trek the game.

Donovan's Brain

The September 1968 episode of Star Trek, "Spock's Brain" features the disembodied brain of Mr. Spock kept alive in a box attached to a control panel.

Ellen Geer

The remainder of her television credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue and Cold Case.

Expanding Human

It is known for one of the earliest appearances of James Doohan, who later went on to play Scotty in Star Trek.

Gabrielle Stanton

Her first job was on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which she followed with writing positions on V.I.P. and the science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict, Farscape, The Invisible Man and Veritas: The Quest, in the latter two of which she also served as co-producer.

Impulse drive

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the impulse drive is the method of propulsion that starships and other spacecraft use when they are travelling below the speed of light.

Jesús Salvador Treviño

Most notably, Treviño has directed a number of episodes from the television series Resurrection Blvd., Babylon 5, Crusade, Bones, Star Trek: Voyager, seaQuest DSV, Crossing Jordan, Third Watch and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Jim Ignatowski

Jim also admitted to being a fan of the original Star Trek series, although he strongly believed that the leader of the Romulans was portrayed incorrectly.

John Sickels

Sickels has also written poetry, science fiction, and has had multiple role playing books published within the Star Fleet Universe game system off-shoot of Star Trek.

Kerrie Keane

Keane's more notable roles include being co-host of the educational future science series What Will They Think of Next?, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Kitty Swink

Along with her husband, she contributed her voice to the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen.

Klingon culture

With the advent of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series the Klingons became allies, and the portrayal of their culture changed to resemble a warrior code similar to the Samurai (or, rather, Western imaginations of them) and Vikings.

Mark Lenard

Lenard also guest-starred as Sarek in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the third season episode "Sarek" (1990) and the fifth season episode "Unification: Part 1" (1991).

Martok

Martok, son of Urthog is a recurring character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actor J. G. Hertzler.

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Martok, leading the Klingon fleet; Admiral Ross & Captain Sisko, leading the Federation fleet; and the Romulans attacked and defeated the Dominion on the Cardassian homeworld.

Max Simon Ehrlich

His television work includes scripts for the series Barney Blake, The Big Story, The Defenders, The Nurses, The United States Steel Hour, and Star Trek (episode "The Apple").

Netrek

Netrek divided the players into one of four teams, loosely based on the Star Trek universe; the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, and Orions (or "feds", "roms", "klis", and "oris", respectively).

Norman Snow

A highlight of Snow's television career is the role of Torin in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Rightful Heir" during the series' sixth season.

Rich Hosek

Rich Hosek is a television writer whose credits include Star Trek: Voyager, Hope and Gloria, Pacific Blue, The New Addams Family, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Rod Roddenberry

Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry is the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, who is best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek.

Roger B. Chaffee

The episode "The Sound of Her Voice" from the sixth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine features a shuttlecraft named the Chaffee assigned to the USS Defiant.

Roger Perry

One of his best known roles was that of Captain John Christopher in NBC's Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".

Scleral lens

Special effect scleral lenses have also been used to produce eerie eye effects in films, such as the whited-out eyes of the monsters in Evil Dead, or blacked-out eyes in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, or the Star Trek episode Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Stanley R. Jaffe

Jaffe had earned the ire of fans of the Star Trek franchise for his role in making a last minute stop to a project that would have built an interactive entertainment facility in the likeness of a full scale Starship Enterprise in Las Vegas.

Star lifting

The novel Star Trek: Voyager – The Murdered Sun featured a reptilian race using the material from a star to sustain the opening of a wormhole.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Section 31: Abyss, (Jeffrey Lang and David Weddle, July 2001): Dr. Bashir is sent by shadowy intelligence agency Section 31 to deal with a rogue S31 agent who has taken control of a Jem'Hadar cloning facility abandoned by the Dominion after the war, and who, like Bashir, is genetically enhanced.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Susan Sackett

Additionally, while working full-time as Roddenberry's assistant, Sackett wrote three books about Star Trek: Letters to Star Trek, Star Trek Speaks!, and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (with Gene Roddenberry).

TekWar

Shatner began to write notes that would become the novels on the set of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and is quoted to say that the original book was an attempt to blend elements from Star Trek and T. J. Hooker.

The Eloquent Atheist

The magazine has conducted interviews with a variety of notables including the president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and host for Air America Radio Annie Laurie Gaylor, American author and writer for the Star Trek franchise Susan Sackett, and Executive Director for the American Humanist Association Roy Speckhardt.

Tracy Tormé

"The Royale" and "Manhunt" went through such significant rewrites and treatments before being filmed that Tormé insisted he not be credited directly; using the pen names Keith Mills and Terry Devereaux respectively.

Triannon

The Triannon, an alien race in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Chosen Realm"

WNUV

At that time, channel 54 ran morning and afternoon children's programming similar to WBFF's Captain Chesapeake, hosted from a mock space ship by a Star Trek-like crew of characters known as the "54 Space Corps".