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.

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* Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who was born blind and uses optical implants combined with a removable unit called a VISOR, to see.

* " Conspiracy " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), a TV episode

In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Crystalline Entity appeared in two episodes, " Datalore " and " Silicon Avatar ".

He is best known for his roles as Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact.

In the early 1990s, he had a recurring role as Lieutenant Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* " The Enemy " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ), appears in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise "

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-D ), the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation

— Wil Wheaton, who played " the kid " Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

With the advent of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 )— in which one of the main characters, Worf, was a Klingon — and successors, the language and various cultural aspects for the fictional species were expanded.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

In addition to being producer he guest-starred as the Angel of Death on Medium, and Captain Morgan Bateson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Cause and Effect ".

In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in " Dark Page ", the seventh episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

( They are similar to the creatures in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Evolution ", which featured " nanites " taking over the Enterprise.

Some starships are assembled at Utopia Planitia region on Mars, particularly the Galaxy class starships featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For example, it was featured in at least 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a weekly event of the senior staff of the fictional ship's crew.

* Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual indicates that the impulse engines are nuclear fusion engines where the plasma from the fusion reactor powers a massive magnetic coil to propel the ship.

This plotline was later revisited in the spinoff series Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode " The Naked Now.

Bubbles also maintained his freelance output, producing designs for Peter Jenner ( Ian Dury and Billy Bragg's manager ), and others, creating a prodigious output by working for such bands, musicians and performers as Vivian Stanshall, Generation X, Big Star, Johnny Moped, Whirlwind, Billy Bragg, Clover, The Sinceros, Roger Chapman, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Dr. Feelgood, Inner City Unit and The Psychedelic Furs.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

The Tholians of " The Tholian Web " are depicted and described, in that episode and later in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly " as being primarily of mineral-based composition and thriving only in superheated conditions.

" The Disease ", an episode of Star Trek: Voyager featured some artificially-engineered silicon-based parasites, and an Enterprise episode, " Observer Effect ", also presented a lethal silicon-based virus.

* " E² ", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

** USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-J ), appears in the episode of Star Trek: Enterprise " Azati Prime " in the 26th century

In the Star Trek episode " The Ultimate Computer ", Dr. McCoy refers to an alcoholic drink known as the " Finagle's Folly ," apparently a reference to " Finagle's Law.

*" Fusion " ( Star Trek: Enterprise ), a first season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

His short story " The New Accelerator " was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.

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.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).