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At the same time, some others have developed languages in detail for their own sake, such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin and Star Trek's Klingon language which exist as functioning, usable languages.
As a sequel to the original Star Trek's " Mirror, Mirror " proved popular while " Part II " had an ending which was a cliffhanger.
In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Gagarin was ranked as the # 6 most popular space hero, tied with Star Trek's fictional Capt.
* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.
When the scammer – who apparently never heard of the television series, asked for his passport details, he sent a copy of a fake passport with a photo of Star Trek's Captain Kirk, hoping that the scammer would attempt to use it and get arrested.
Star Trek's science consultant Andre Bormanis about the creation of Data.
The treatment of Vulcan names has been erratic throughout Star Trek's production history.
In April 2010, Leonard Nimoy announced that he was retiring from playing the signature character of Star Trek's Spock, citing both his advanced age and the desire to give Zachary Quinto the opportunity to enjoy full media attention with the Spock character.
* Snotty, who operates the transporter beam in planet Spaceball's capital city, is a reference to Star Trek's engineer Scotty.
In the Bonanza episode, " Gift of Water " ( 1962 ), he co-starred with actress Majel Barrett, who would later be cast in the role of Star Trek's Nurse Chapel.
In addition to following Star Trek's lead, showing the " evil " variants of the main storyline gives the writers an opportunity to show what is at stake by portraying the worst that could happen and the consequences if the protagonists fail or the importance of a character's presence.
* Highly Offensive Ferengi: Racial Issues and Star Trek's Multicultural Deep Space Nine in Film ( KINEMA, A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, University of Waterloo )
An associated PICTURES library let you print ASCII art of Star Trek's Mr. Spock, John Dean, and Christmas calendars.
As the character Quark, Shimerman became one of Star Trek's most widely-known characters, and he appeared several times on the cover of TV Guide, either with other actors or alone as part of a collector's series.
Three primary variants of the tricorder are issued in Star Trek's Starfleet.
* In light of Star Trek's long history of representing characters of all races, colors, and creeds, some fans have petitioned Paramount for years to include a gay or bisexual person as a regular character.
These include the first known instance of what is now called the Dyson sphere, reference to a scenario closely predicting the later zoo hypothesis or Star Trek's Prime Directive, many imaginative descriptions of species, civilizations and methods of warfare, and the idea that the stars and even the pre-galactic nebulae are intelligent beings, operating on vast time scales.
" In The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence M. Krauss begins a list of Star Trek's ten worst errors by quoting one of his colleagues who considers that their greatest mistake is " to split an infinitive every damn time.
In his 1973 memoir The Trouble With Tribbles: The Complete Story of One of Star Trek's Most Popular Episodes author David Gerrold states that he had been a science fiction fan since childhood, and was a film student in college when the series was aired.
This episode was digitally remastered in 2006 for high definition television and first aired September 16, 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of Star Trek's premiere.
Unlike in Macross, the language for the Robotech Zentraedi was dominated by more harsh, guttural sounds very similar in nature to Star Trek's Klingonese.

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Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as her " sassy gentleman friend "; the friendship between the African-American Nichols and Southern Kelley was a real-life demonstration of the message Roddenberry hoped to convey through Star Trek.
** Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer ( Star Trek )
* November 22 – William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols share the first interracial kiss on US television in the Star Trek episode " Plato's Stepchildren ".
Jemison's inspiration for joining NASA was African-American actress Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek.
The original cast of Star Trek, including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter Koenig, provided their voices for the CD version of the game.
Other Star Trek actors such as Michael Dorn ( Worf on TNG ), Brent Spiner ( Data on TNG ), Colm Meaney ( Miles O ’ Brien on TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), LeVar Burton ( Geordi La Forge on TNG ), Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series ), Avery Brooks ( Benjamin Sisko on DS9 ), Paul Winfield ( Clark Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ), David Warner ( various characters, most notably Gul Madred in " Chain of Command ", a two-part episode of TNG ) and Kate Mulgrew ( Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager ) were guest or recurring stars in the series.
Initial members serving on the NSI board of directors and governors were a veritable " Who's Who " list that included comedian and entertainer Bob Hope, singer / songwriter John Denver, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, " Original 7 " Project Mercury astronaut and Senator John H. Glenn, Jr., Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Dr. Michael DeBakey, " Star Trek " creator Gene Roddenberry and actress Nichelle Nichols.
The 2004 event in Los Angeles was attended by over 100 prominent space leaders including author Ray Bradbury, space tourist Dennis Tito, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, * NSYNC's Lance Bass and Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura from the original Star Trek series ).
The show so typecast the actors, however — as early as March 1970, Nichelle Nichols complained of Star Trek having " defined so narrowly as an actress "— that only Shatner and Nimoy continued working steadily during the 1970s, and even their work received little attention unless it was Star Trek-related.
* Out of This World ( Nichelle Nichols album ), an album by Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols
Due to Uhura's commanding role in this episode, Nichelle Nichols has named this as her favorite episode of Star Trek.
It is the last Star Trek episode in which Nichelle Nichols ( Lt. Uhura ) appears.

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* In appearances at Star Trek conventions, Nichols had indicated that the character is " Nyota penda Uhura "; perhaps coincidentally, in Nichols ' 1996 novel Saturn's Child she named the mother of the titular character " Nyota ".
*" Nyota " was also used as Uhura's first name when Nichols reprised the character in the fan film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men.
Soon after the first scripts for Star Trek were being written, Gene Roddenberry spoke of a new character, a female communications officer and introduced Herb Solow and Robert Justman to Nichols, who had worked for him on The Lieutenant.
Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967 after its first season, but a conversation with Martin Luther King, Jr. persuaded her to stay, stating that she was a role model for the black community.
Nichols protested the scene, wondering why there were still books in the 23rd century, but accepted the change since it would be the last Star Trek film she would appear in.

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Notable in the late ' 80s were All Star Fresh of King Bee topping charts with: " Back by Dope Demand " in early 1990 and Rudeboy of Urban Dance Squad who, at the time, were arguably more widely known in New York City than the Netherlands.
Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas.
The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded only to service members in combat who are receiving imminent danger pay.
The Bronze Star Medal ( without the " V " device ) may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, after 6 December 1941, was cited in orders or awarded a certificate for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy after 7 December 1941.
The Bronze Star Medal was conceived by Colonel Russell P. " Red " Reeder in 1943, who believed it would aid morale if there was a medal which could be awarded by captains of companies or batteries to deserving people serving under them.
As a result of a study conducted in 1947, the policy was implemented that authorized the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal ( w / o " V ") to soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.
The basis for doing this was that the badges were awarded only to soldiers who had borne the hardships which resulted in General Marshall's support of the Bronze Star Medal.
Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near his Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with it.
* 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.
* 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.
The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.
He was inspired by the mention of the concept in the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon, and possibly by the works of J. D. Bernal and Raymond Z. Gallun who seem to have explored similar concepts in their work.
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.
In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.
In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.
— Casey Biggs, who played the Cardassian Legate Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
— Wil Wheaton, who played " the kid " Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation
And I do believe that when we get kidnapped by aliens, it's going to be the genuine, true Star Trek fans who will save the day.
-George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series
The Jedi are first introduced in the 1977 motion picture Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as an order of warrior monks who serve as " the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy " and embrace the mystical Force.
In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace ( 1999 ), Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ) discovers nine year old Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), whom he believes to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy who is destined to bring balance to the Force ; the boy is eventually paired with Qui-Gon's apprentice, the young Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor ), who promises to train him.

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