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.

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— Casey Biggs, who played the Cardassian Legate Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Worf would later reappear among the regular characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( 1993 ) and B ' Elanna Torres, a Klingon-human hybrid, would become a main character on Star Trek: Voyager ( 1995 ).

The use of untranslated Klingon words interspersed with conversation translated into English was commonplace in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when Klingons became a more important part of the series ' overall story-arcs.

* Deep Space Station K7, a fictional space station featured in the Star Trek episodes " The Trouble With Tribbles " and " Trials and Tribble-ations "

The Deep Star III built by General Dynamics and an unnamed two-man submersible built by Westinghouse were scheduled to sail but never did.

* " The Maquis ", second-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that introduced the above group

** Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

* Rom ( Star Trek ), a Ferengi character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

* In “ Babel ,” an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a virus causes this type of aphasia.

* In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; " Little Green Men ", Quark, Rom and Nog are accidentally thrust back in time to Roswell in 1947 while on their way to Starfleet Academy.

The difference was remarked upon in dialog between characters in " Trials and Tribble-ations ", an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when modern-era characters travel back in time to the days of Kirk and Spock ( and via then-brand new CGI techniques, appear within the TOS episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", frequently coming into contact with the Enterprise crew ).

The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book Legends of the Ferengi says Starfleet security personnel " rarely survive beyond the second act break ".

Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.

Netflix began online streaming of five of the six Star Trek television series on July 1, 2011 ; Deep Space Nine followed on October 1.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( sometimes abbreviated to ST: DS9 or DS9 ) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the 24th century from the year 2369 through 2375.

* TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Michael Dorn directed one episode

In May 2005, Clark announced plans for a new series of Enterprise novels that will constitute a " relaunch " similar to that of the literary continuation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

The movie featured in-joke homages to such sci-fi classics as Star Wars, The Terminator, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The stories that constitute the Known Space series were originally conceived as two separate series: the Belter stories, featuring solar-system colonization and slower-than-light travel with fusion-powered and Bussard ramjet ships, and the Neutron Star / Ringworld series of stories, set much further into the future, which feature faster-than-light ships using " hyperdrive ".

Nevertheless, in many Known Space stories, ARM agents operate or exert influence in other human star systems through the " Bureau of Alien Affairs " ( see In the Hall of the Mountain King, Procrustes, The Borderland of Sol, and " Neutron Star ").

The MV Freedom Star and MV Liberty Star, ships used by NASA to tow space shuttle solid rocket boosters back to Kennedy Space Center, are propelled only by water jets to protect the endangered manatee population that inhabits regions of the Banana River where the ships are based.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

* The Borg from Star Trek, including Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, a human who was assimilated into a drone and later severed from the collective.

Alexander appeared on Star Trek: Voyager on the episode " Think Tank " playing a genius alien named Kurros who was trying to get Seven of Nine to serve on his ship.

Worf, played by Michael Dorn, is a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in seasons four to seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.