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.

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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.

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Many well-known films were made here including the first three Star Wars movies ( IV, V, & VI ).

The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.

The Shakespearian choices were inspired by a remark from High Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, who said, " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

He also created the poster art for Monty Python's Life of Brian and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Unlike his TNG co-stars, this was Michael Dorn's second Star Trek film, having appeared on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, portraying his TNG character's grandfather, Colonel Worf, who defended Kirk and McCoy on their trial.

After the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in 1991, it was expected that the next Star Trek feature film would feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television spinoff series.

The ' TAS ' series would be the original cast's last episodic portrayal of the characters until the " cartoon like " graphics of the Star Trek: 25th Anniversary computer game in 1992, as well as its sequel Star Trek: Judgment Rites in 1993, both of which would appear after the cast's last movie together in 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), McCoy and Kirk escape from a Klingon prison world, and the Enterprise crew stops a plot to prevent peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.

Romulan ale is a fictional popular blue alcoholic beverage which was illegal because of a Federation trade embargo in the late 23rd century ( per Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ) through the late 24th century ( per Star Trek Nemesis ).

the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

The ship is ordered decommissioned at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

It has been claimed that in the final / celebration scene of the special edition DVD version of Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, Jar Jar can be heard shouting, " We ' sah free!

Along with film critics, many have also accused the film's creators of excessive commercialization directed at young children ( a criticism first levelled with the introduction of Ewoks in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ).

Lawson also portrays Antilles in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ; his own voice is used in both these films.

Stevenson's legendary " Don't wait for the translation " speech to Russian ambassador Valerian Zorin during the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired dialogue in a courtroom scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Spock forcefully used the technique on Valeris in order to discover information she had that could be used to prevent a war ; Valeris began screaming just before Spock broke the connection.

" It also appeared in Spock's quarters in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ) reunites the Enterprise crew on a mission to prevent war from erupting between the Federation and Klingon Empire.

" This explains moments when characters have made similar comments ( in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, for instance, when Scotty mentioned having " bought " a boat ).

In 1991, morphing appeared notably in the Michael Jackson music video Black or White and in the movies Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The album was more successful in Europe, where Twain won Country Music Television Europe's " Rising Video Star of the Year " award.

In a cutaway of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn are seen making fun of Worf ( or rather, Worf's cranial ridges ).

Although never confirmed on screen, the character of Colonel Worf was intended to be the grandfather of Star Trek: The Next Generations Worf.

During his three-month internment at Saughton prison his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-boat.

His second great grandfather was Archibald Gardner, who was one of the early settlers of Star Valley, Wyoming.

The first was Colonel Worf ( Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ), who is the grandfather of Worf ( TNG ) and father of Mogh.

He has been referred to as the grandfather of modern make-up design and is perhaps best known for his work on the original Star Wars trilogy

* Evelyn Venable ( 1930 ), actress, has a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame ; her father, Emerson, and grandfather William Henry, taught English at the school

His great-grandfather Joseph T. Clark was managing editor of the Toronto Star and Saturday Night, his grandfather was a reporter for the Toronto Star, his father was the founder of Canada NewsWire, and his great-uncle Gregory Clark was an acclaimed writer and journalist with both the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram.