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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.

7307 Takei

:George Takei (b. 1937) is an actor best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in the original Star Trek television series.

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.

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.

Anthony Guidera

Guidera has also guest starred in television series such as Renegade, Baywatch, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Angel (in the episodes "The Circle" and "The Ring," respectively).

Benzethonium chloride

In Star Trek: Enterprise, benzethonium is used as a painkiller in hospitals on the planet Risa.

Chevrolet Corvair

This vehicle appeared in numerous television programs in the 1960s, including Star Trek.

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.

Doctor–patient relationship

In Star Trek: Voyager, the Doctor often compliments himself on the charming bedside manner he developed with the help of Kes.

E6B

In Star Trek episode "The Naked Time", Mr. Spock uses an E-6B to calculate the time of impact of the Enterprise with a planet.

Ellen Bry

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Episode (6x09): The Quality of Life) (1992) (TV)

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.

Gardner Goldsmith

Named "Libertarian of the Year" by the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2006, Goldsmith has spent time in the script departments of "Star Trek: Voyager" and "The Outer Limits".

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".

How Much for Just the Planet?

How Much for Just the Planet? is a 1987 Star Trek tie-in novel by John M. Ford.

I, Q

He became a father in the Star Trek: Voyager episode The Q and the Grey.

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.

Jack B. Sowards

Jack B. Sowards (March 18, 1929 – July 8, 2007) was an American screenwriter who wrote the story and screenplay for the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease".

James Kahn

Among the series he worked on were Family Medical Center, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Reality, TekWar (created by William Shatner), Medicine Ball, Xena: Warrior Princess, Melrose Place (which he also co-executive produced in its last years), Star Trek: Voyager (also Supervising Producer) and All My Children (for which he and the writing staff were Emmy-nominated).

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.

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O'Heir has appeared in several films and made guest appearances on such shows as Friends, Boston Legal, Malcolm in the Middle, Star Trek: Voyager, ER and Parenthood.

Jimmy Diggs

Jimmy Diggs (born September 2, 1955) is an American television screenwriter best known for writing the stories for a combined seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

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.

Kitty Swink

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

Klingon alphabets

It holds more closely to the D7 battlecruiser hull markings and is also loosely based upon the conceptual art of Matt Jeffries, TOS set designer.

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.

Logbook

In Star Trek the Captain's log, a form of ship's log, is used to fill in the audience as to the events in progress, and acts as a more realistic form of soliloquy.

Louie Cruz Beltran

Among his seven brothers and two sisters is the well-known former Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran.

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.

Marj Dusay

She played alien "Kara" in "Spock's Brain", the first third-season episode of Star Trek.

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.

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.

Nate Thomas

He produces many of them with close friend/business associate Tim Russ, who played Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on the Star Trek: Voyager television series.

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.

Pendant Productions

The net-based audio theater company go its started with the popular fan show Star Trek: Defiant, whose launch was delayed due to production difficulties.

Peter Greenwood

During 1993 he worked as a costume and special effects technician on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and on the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

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.

Quatloos.com

The term "quatloos" appears in an episode of Star Trek; it was the name of a currency used for betting in the episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".

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.

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.

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.

Rick Berman

In 2001, he co-created Enterprise (retitled Star Trek: Enterprise in 2003) with Brannon Braga.

Robert DoQui

Robert made guest appearances on many television series, including I Dream of Jeannie, The Jeffersons, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Adam-12, The Parkers, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season 4 episode "Sons of Mogh" as a Klingon named Noggra.

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.

Samuli Torssonen

The Star Wreck series contains quirky Finnish and "Trekkish" humour, with elements parodying both Star Trek and Babylon 5.

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.

Scott Klace

Scott began using the phonetic spelling of Klace in 1999 when he played Dremk in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and Fox in the film Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies.

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: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Divided We Fall (John Ordover and David Mack, September–October 2001): 4-part comic book miniseries published by WildStorm Comics featuring the characters of both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation dealing with a crisis on Trill.

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Warpath (David Mack, April 2006): The Jem'Hadar Taran'atar has brutally attacked Captain Kira and Lieutenant Ro, and Commander Vaughn must track him down.

Star Trek: New Earth

Based on the titular TV series created by Gene Roddenberry, New Earth was created by Pocket editor John J. Ordover and writer Diane Carey, and debuted on June 1, 2000, with the publication of the first two installments, Wagon Train to the Stars and Belle Terre.

Star Trek: New Worlds

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: Strange New Worlds

Certain tropes that are common to fan fiction were explicitly outlined in the submission rules as cause for a story to be disqualified from consideration, including "hurt/comfort" and Mary Sue stories.

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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Avery Brooks and Chase Masterson were also in attendance for the closing ceremony, and Garrett Wang made a brief appearance at Quark's shortly before closing.

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 U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints

When he presented his idea to Star Trek Art Department staff member Andrew Probert, he was given the go ahead to start designing and drawing the Enterprise-D blueprints.

Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

After Mr. Spock takes over for a hysterical science officer Berryman, the enemy is determined to be a Romulan Bird of Prey.

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.

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Once in orbit above such a planet, the player could use Kirk's screen to move to the transporter room.

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.

Star Trek: Vanguard

While the station does in fact help colonies across the area, its true mission (known only to a few people) is to study a mystery that began with the discovery of genetically engineered DNA millions of times more complex than any previously encountered, known as the Taurus Meta-Genome.

Steve Hettinger

A noted Star Trek fan, Hettinger temporarily renamed the city "Star Trek, Alabama" for the colossal "Star Trek 30" Convention in 1996.

Strange New World

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, an annual open-submission anthology of Star Trek short stories

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 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).

Terry Windell

Terry Windell is a film director, working in commercials as well as long-form television, most notably directing several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and 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.

Tiger Truck

The Tiger Truck logo is an homage to the Star Trek logo, meant to highlight the futuristic design and features of the truck.

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.

Tommy Vicini

Several of Vicini's post Hamburglar credits include Playing the Crypt Keeper in the Tales from the Crypt film Demon Knight, Star Trek: Insurrection.

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.

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.

World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King

Arthas: Rise of the Lich King is a novel by Christie Golden, the author of Star Trek and other Warcraft novels.

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.


BarBara Luna

Notable roles included Five Weeks in a Balloon and Lt. Marlena Moreau in the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".

Byron Berline

His music has also appeared in many television and film soundtracks, including Star Trek, Blue Collar, Basic Instinct, Blaze, Back to the Future III, Northern Exposure, Stay Hungry, and Run Simon Run.

Corriganville Movie Ranch

Built on land purchased by Corrigan in 1937, the ranch provided scenery as well as man-made structures and sets, and was the backdrop for movies and television programs such as Fort Apache, Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, The Robe, The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, and Star Trek.

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.

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.

Google Now

It was originally code named "Majel" after Majel Barrett, the wife of Gene Roddenberry, and well known as the voice of computer systems in his Star Trek franchise; it was also codenamed "assistant".

Grambling's White Tiger

Harry Belafonte stars as Coach Eddie Robinson and LeVar Burton (already famous from Roots and later to be known for Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG) appears as Charles 'Tank' Smith, the first friend Jim Gregory makes on the team.

Highly Illogical

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

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.

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.

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.

Louise Sorel

She has made guest appearances on more than 50 prime time programs and television movies, making a notable guest appearance on Star Trek as Rayna Kapec.

Mack Reynolds

Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek.

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).

Mark Twain in popular culture

The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Time's Arrow" (1992) featured a fictionalized version of Mark Twain, played by Jerry Hardin.

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").

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

Multiplayer video game

Digital Equipment Corporation soon distributed another multi-user version of Star Trek called Decwars though not featuring real-time screen updating.

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).

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Robert Hewitt Wolfe

These include action-packed episodes with high story-arc importance ("The Way of the Warrior", "Call to Arms"), dramatic character studies ("The Wire", "Hard Time") and even comic farces ("Family Business", "Little Green Men").

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".

Seven of Nine

-- do not change spelling, see talk page --> is a fictional character on Star Trek: Voyager, portrayed by actress Jeri Ryan.

Shimon Wincelberg

Born in Kiel, Germany, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including Naked City, Mannix, The Time Tunnel, Police Woman, Star Trek ("The Galileo Seven" and "Dagger of the Mind"), Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Paper Chase and Lost in Space.

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.

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 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.

Starfleet Command

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

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.

VOY

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