* When Stephen Hawking guest starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Descent ", he was taken on a guided tour of the set.

He also lent his voice to the popular video games Star Wars: Starfighter, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter ( as the character Nym in both games ), Descent 3, and Age of Mythology.

Space-based vehicular combat is portrayed in many movies and video games, most notably Star Wars, the Halo Series, Descent, Gundam, Macross, Babylon 5, and Star Trek.

He appeared twice in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1993, first as an alien named " Jo ' Bril " in the episode " Suspicions ", and later as " Lieutenant Barnaby " in the episode " Descent ".

" Descent " comprises the 152nd and 153rd episodes of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, a two-part story where part one is a cliffhanger ending to season 6 and part two begins season 7.

He is best known for his role as Hugh the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " I, Borg " ( 1992 ) and " Descent, Part II " ( 1993 ) as well as in Star Trek: Voyager as a character named by the Doctor as " Fantome " from " The Phantom of the Opera ".

Next Mivart's anonymous Quarterly Review article claimed that the Descent of Man would unsettle " our half educated classes " and talked of people doing as they pleased, breaking laws and customs.

Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney ( 1994 ), pp. 123 – 184.

* Descent ( category theory ), an idea extending the notion of " gluing " in topology

* Descent ( aircraft ), the decrease of an aircraft in altitude during flight

* Descent ( font ), the distance that a typeface descends below the baseline in typography

* Descent ( 2005 film ), a television film on the Sci-Fi Channel

* Descent ( 2007 film ), a thriller starring Rosario Dawson

* Descent ( video game ), first in a series from Interplay Entertainment and Parallax Software

* The Descent ( novel ), by Jeff Long

* " Descent " ( The Outer Limits ), an episode of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits

* " Descent " ( Stargate SG-1 ), an episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1

After starring in the sequel film La boum 2 ( 1982 ), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques ( Happy Easter ) in 1984, L ' amour braque and Police in 1985, and Descente aux enfers ( Descent Into Hell ) in 1986.

In 1863, Clark helped organize Iowa's black regiment, the 60th United States Colored Infantry ( originally known as the 1st Iowa Infantry, African Descent ), though an injury prevented him from serving.

) Unlike Doom and Quake, Descent does not use BSP trees for visibility culling ( to speed up rendering ), instead taking advantage of the game's use of collections of cubes to form rooms and tunnels.

It features thirty levels, with five new anarchy levels, the remixed soundtrack from the MacOS version ( featuring Type O Negative and Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy ), prerendered cinematics ( using the same cinematic engine as Descent II ), and radiosity colored lighting effects.

The Descent from the Cross ( Rogier van der Weyden ) | The Descent from the Cross ( c. 1435 ), oil on oak panel, 220 × 262 cm.

* Descent from Parnassus ( 1934 ), London: Cresset Press ( essays on modern poets )

The frescoes on the other walls represent scenes from the lives of Christ and Saint Peter on the entry wall ( mostly ruined due to the later installation of a choir ), The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Allegory of Christian Learning on the left wall, and the large " Crucifixion with the Way to Calvalry and the Descent into Limbo " on the archway of the altar wall.

In addition to his easel pictures, Stothard decorated the grand staircase of Burghley House, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, with subjects of War, Intemperance, and the Descent of Orpheus in Hell ( 1799 – 1803 ); the mansion of Hafod, North Wales, with a series of scenes from Froissart and Monstrelet ( 1810 ); the cupola of the upper hall of the Advocates ' Library, Edinburgh ( later occupied by the Signet Library ), with Apollo and the Muses, and figures of poets, orators, etc.

With a moving camera, she also took a series of still photographs ( such as Descent: HQ5: 1 / 2s, 4. 7 °, Omm 40mph ), resulting in images of vertical streaks and blurred patches of colour.

After the Battle of Fort Pulaski, he began enlisting black soldiers from the occupied districts of South Carolina and formed the first such Union Army regiment, the 1st South Carolina ( African Descent ), which he was initially ordered to disband, but eventually got approval from Congress for his action.

In April 2011, Lakpa Tsheri and Sano Babu Sunuwar made the ' Ultimate Descent ': a three-month journey in which they climbed Chhomolangma ( Nepali: Sagarmatha, English: Everest ), then paraglided down the mountain and proceeded to kayak through Nepal and India until they reached the Indian Ocean.

Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross ( Rogier van der Weyden ) | The Descent from the Cross ( c. 1435 ), oil on oak panel, 220 × 262 cm.

Lore returns in the two-part episode " Descent ", using the emotion chip to control Data and make him help with Lore's attempt to make the Borg entirely artificial life forms.

The episode " Descent " reveals Mister Sinister's origin.

* Novus, the planet featured in the Stargate Universe episode " Common Descent "

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-585-29190-X

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.

This follows the Star Trek tradition of naming Shuttlecraft after prominent scientists, and particularly in The Next Generation, physicists.

It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek.

* Some Klingons wear baldrics in Star Trek.

Jean-Luc Picard admonishes Worf in Star Trek: Insurrection, " Straighten your baldric.

He played a Starfleet member in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " The Siege of AR-558 " ( November 1998 ).

* Columbus ( Star Trek ), a shuttlecraft in Star Trek series

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

The Borg ( Star Trek ) | Borg from Star Trek.