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.

The non-canon " Star Trek: DS9-Millennium " novel trilogy revealed the spoon feature served as a type of umbilical membrane before birth.

Much as occurred in the original series, Romulans of the ( non-canon ) Star Fleet Universe descended from the Vulcans, having rejected the movement toward an unemotional, logic-based society, and settled in a distant star system.

In " non-canon " Trek-related literature, such as the novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Vulcans are depicted as immune to the effects of alcohol ( though in the TOS episode " The Naked Time " a strange affliction infects the crew, that has much the same effect as alcohol, and Spock is also affected and becomes emotional, and even starts to cry ).

In many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri.

The once official, but now non-canon Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology 1980-2188 guide states that the UFP was " incorporated at the first Babel Interplanetary Conference " in the year 2087.

* In the fictional Star Trek universe, Gil is a non-canon Cardassian military rank

In the non-canon Star Trek: Titan novel series, Tuvok joins William Riker on the USS Titan as tactical officer, leaving Voyager.

In an episode of the non-canon fan film series " Star Trek: New Voyages ", a time-traveling Kirk and Spock attempt to warn Pike not to attempt to rescue the trapped cadets.

James Blish's non-canon novels identify her as Bantu, as does Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In the non-canon game Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation, the Ferengi are seen using a number of new starships similar to the D ' Kora-class.

They play more important roles in some non-canon spin-offs such as Star Trek: The Human Frontier and The Lives of Dax.

In the non-canon short story " Infinity " ( written by Susan Wright and collected into The Lives of Dax ), the shuttle in which Torias Dax dies is testing a prototype version of the transwarp drive ( as seen in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) with the assistance of Lieutenant Saavik and under the command of Captain Stiles ( both appear in The Search for Spock ).

According to the 2003 non-canon Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George III, Harriman remains in command of the Enterprise-B for nearly twenty years, and develops a reputation as an excellent and capable officer.

The non-canon game Star Trek: Starship Creator by Simon and Schuster Interactive includes Harriman as a character who can be assigned to one of the various positions on players ' ships.

Also non-canon, David Mack's 2010 Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel, Zero Sum Game, establishes that the Breen Confederacy is made up of many separate species, all of which wear suits to disguise their appearances and subsume their identities into the Breen name.

The Betazoid word imzadi means " beloved ", although in the ( non-canon, like all Star Trek books ) novel " Imzadi ", by Peter David, the meaning is expanded to mean " the first ", as in the first to touch one's soul.

Still, the comics are considered non-canon, since Star Fox 64 replaced the original SNES Star Fox title.

The only recorded instance of this order actually being carried out was the first issue of the non-canon Gold Key Star Trek series: " The Planet of No Return.

A replicator can create any inanimate matter, as long as the desired molecular structure is on file, but it cannot create antimatter, dilithium, latinum, or a living organism of any kind ; in the case of living organisms, non-canon works such as the Star Trek: the Next Generation Technical Manual state that, though the replicators use a form of transporter technology, it's at such a low resolution that creating living tissue is a physical impossibility.

Star Trek Generations introduces Hikaru's daughter, Demora Sulu, whose origins are also depicted in Peter David's non-canon novel The Captain's Daughter.

* One of the stories in the 2007 < i > Star Trek: Strange New Worlds </ i > non-canon short story anthology, titled " The Trouble with Tribals ," posits that tribbles are actually extremely intelligent beings that transfer their consciousnesses from one body to the next as parent tribbles die, forming a kind of very powerful hive mind.

Mirror-Spock's future role on Enterprise and the fate of Mirror-Kirk are unclear, though some have suggested that Mirror-Kirk was assassinated ( and was shown in a non-canon Star Trek comic ).

The Washington Double Star Catalog, a database of visual double stars compiled by the United States Naval Observatory, contains over 100, 000 pairs of double stars, including optical doubles as well as binary stars.

According to Leland Chee, the keeper of The Holocron, an internal Star Wars continuity database at Lucasfilm ( which contains at least 28 individual entries relating to elements of the holiday special ), most elements from the holiday special are definitely considered canon ; however, there are specific rules as to what is what.

* Star schema-fairly popular design choice ; enables a relational database to emulate the analytical functionality of a multidimensional database

Toronto Star ( Canada ), Retrieved from Newspaper Source database.

Participants collected entries from a database maintained by the Arizona Daily Star that holds the names and descriptions of migrants that died trying to cross the border territory and then sent those entries into a database run by the company BlueServo which is used to surveil and police the border.

The Arizona Daily Star maintained a database of border deaths recorded by the Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, and Yuma County medical examiners between summer 2004 and September 2006.

* A Star Wars fan film database made by fans.

The game's database was accidentally destroyed on April 15, 1994, leading to a game split that resulted in the creation of two other prominent Star Wars-themed MUSHes, Star Wars MUSH 2: A New Threat, later From the Ashes, and Star Wars MUSH 3: Minos Cluster, which went on to become Unsung Heroes, which continues as an active MUSH to this day.