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.

His voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early story " The Soft Weapon ".

The success in syndication of the original live action series and fan pressure for a Star Trek revival led to The Animated Series from 1973 – 1974, as the source of new adventures of the Enterprise crew, the next being the 1979 live-action feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

Filmation later went on to produce the hit He-Man and the Masters of the Universe ( 1983 – 85 ), which occasionally used modified character and set designs from Star Trek: The Animated Series, mostly as background material.

Later series also shared many of the stock sound effects from both Star Trek: The Animated Series and Star Trek: The Original Series.

Filmation also recycled some of the background music for Star Trek: The Animated Series in their later shows Shazam !, Tarzan and the Super 7 and Sport Billy.

A Vulcan city which looks very similar to the ShiKahr of Star Trek: The Animated Series was shown in the new CGI establishing shots used in the special edition of " Amok Time ".

A personal force field technology known as the life support belt was seen only in Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Amarillo Design Bureau has — as part of its license for the Star Fleet Universe series of games — incorporated many aspects of The Animated Series into its works, not least being the inclusion of the Kzinti, although in a modified form.

In addition FASA used elements from The Animated Series in its sourcebooks and modules for its Star Trek role-playing game.

On June 27, 2007, Star Trek < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s official site incorporated information from The Animated Series into its library section, although it is unclear here if TAS is indeed part of Star Trek canon or not.

* Home field advantage in the World Series granted to the winner of the All Star Game in the same season ( 2003 )

-George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series

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.

In Star Trek: The Original Series episode I, Mudd, the Liar paradox is used by the characters of Captain Kirk and Harry Mudd to confuse and ultimately disable an android.

In the entertainment industry, this can manifest itself as calling a movie " Part 1 " once sequels are released or by slightly altering the title ( e. g. Star Wars: A New Hope or Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) to emphasize its connection with the sequel ( s ), or by referring to a television series as " the original ," as in Star Trek: The Original Series.

A dead " redshirt ", Leslie ( Star Trek ) | Lt. Leslie ( Eddie Paskey ), in the Star Trek: The Original Series | Star Trek episode " Obsession ( Star Trek ) | Obsession " ( 1967 )

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Although this television series had the title of Star Trek, it later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series ( Star Trek: TOS or TOS ) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

Under the direction of Star Trek producer David Rossi and long-time Star Trek technical consultant Mike Okuda, the visual and special effects were recreated to give Star Trek: The Original Series a more authentic feel and modern look.

Many of these are set in the time of The Original Series, including Star Trek: Phase II which was nominated for a Hugo Award and received support from actors and writers who were involved with The Original Series.

* In the Star Wars prequels, the galactic capital planet Coruscant has buildings many miles tall, and approaches the completely built-over condition of Trantor in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy ( Note: due to this, Coruscant was originally to be named Jhantor but was eventually renamed Coruscant ).

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

* I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek, and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said " You must not miss this movie!

* The northbound span of the Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges was originally named the Audubon Memorial Bridge.

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 ".

" Warp " had originally been the internal IBM name for the release: IBM claimed that it had used Star Trek terms as internal names for past OS / 2 releases, and that this one seemed appropriate for external use as well.

Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in 2006, UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country.

" Video Killed the Radio Star " was included on the soundtrack for The Wedding Singer, while " Cleveland Rocks ," originally recorded by Ian Hunter, was chosen as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show.

Scott had originally planned to next adapt a version of Tristan and Iseult, but after seeing Star Wars, he became convinced of the potential of large scale, effects-driven films.

Richard Channing Garfield, PhD ( born June 26, 1963, Philadelphia ) is a game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech CCG, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle ( originally known as Jyhad ), The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game RoboRally.

Star Trek: Enterprise ( originally titled simply Enterprise for the first two seasons ) is a science fiction television series.

It was also the first theme song in Star Trek history not originally written for the show it was used ; it was originally the theme song to the movie Patch Adams ( where it was sung by Rod Stewart and originally entitled " Faith of the Heart ").

In the sixth-season episode " Barge of the Dead ," Dawson finally got the chance to explore B ' Elanna's Klingon heritage thanks to an episode originally conceived by Ronald D. Moore for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

This episode was originally written with the intention of being an episode of the live-action original series during the third season, but this was vetoed by Fred Freiberger who wanted serious sci-fi episodes instead, stressing that Star Trek is not a comedy.

This feature was originally proposed for the original series ( see, e. g., Gerrold, The World of Star Trek ) but was never used.

Wizards of the Coast published many of the races originally found in Star Frontiers in their d20 Future supplement for d20 Modern.

Many crimes which are now commonly prosecuted such as attempt, conspiracy, libel and perjury were originally developed by the Court of Star Chamber, along with its more common role of dealing with riots and sedition.