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.

He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones.

* " Juno " Blair B, creator of the webcomic Star Cross'd Destiny

The fourth season saw Brent Spiner ( Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation ) as the imprisoned scientist Dr. Arik Soong, an ancestor of Data's creator ( Dr. Noonien Soong, also played by Spiner in at least two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation ), in a three-episode arc at the end of which Soong abandons the concept of improving mankind in favor of creating artificial intelligence: an allusion to what will eventually become Data.

The character's middle name, " Eugene ," is a tribute to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

* J. J. Abrams, creator of Alias, Fringe and Lost ( along with Damon Lindelof ), director of Star Trek

* Ronald D. Moore, creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica ; producer and writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Roswell

* Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Earth: Final Conflict, and Andromeda

In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

According to The Making of Star Trek, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself.

Incubus was directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, and stars William Shatner, shortly before he would begin his work on Star Trek.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's novelization of The Motion Picture depicts Kirk married to a Starfleet officer killed during a transporter accident.

Star Wars creator George Lucas stated that he feels there is a section of the fanbase who get upset with aspects of Star Wars because " he movies are for children but they don't want to admit that ...

Star Wars creator George Lucas considered adding a shot of Fett escaping the sarlaac in Return of the Jedi, but decided against it because it would have detracted from the story's focus, instead leaving the task of " reviving " Fett to Expanded Universe canon.

Star Wars creator George Lucas calls the cigar-shaped Separatist cruisers visible at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith " Star Destroyers " in the movie's DVD commentary track.

As part of the anti-war message he wanted the show to convey, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry intended to depict the Federation as if it was like an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the Star Trek series, pitched his show as " Wagon Train to the stars " early on, but admitted later that this was more about getting it produced in a time that loved Western-themed TV series than about its actual content.

Star Wars creator George Lucas sought to make the Galactic Empire aesthetically and thematically similar to Nazi Germany and to appear to be fascist.

* 8 December 2009: Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on Hollywood Boulevard ( n ° 6153 ), between Gene Kelly and Louis Jourdan

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

Rooted in Gene Roddenberry ’ s Star Trek universe, it was the first Trek spin-off created without direct involvement from Roddenberry, although he did give his blessing to the concept shortly before his death in 1991.

Worf was at first not intended to be a regular character, since Gene Roddenberry wanted to avoid " retreads of characters or races featured prominently in the original Star Trek series ", and so the June 1, 1987 cast portrait did not include Worf.

Star Trek: The Animated Series ( originally known as simply Star Trek, but also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek ) is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek: The Original Series of the 1960s.

At the end of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all licenses for Star Trek spin-off fiction were renegotiated and the animated series was essentially " decanonized " by Gene Roddenberry's office.

The show was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor and is the fourth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the 1960s series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Burton also commented that he was anxious about his role, because he feared that ST: TNG was going to flop: " At the beginning, you know, there was a lot of conversation in the press at what a bad idea this was I thought that since Gene was involved we had a real good shot of making a good show that would carry on in that tradition of Star Trek.

Gene Roddenberry created the character in honour of George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek series who died in 1975.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

In Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a " United Space Ship ," and in two episodes of the original series ( TOS ), Kirk refers to the " United Space Ship Enterprise ".

Next came the unexpected sleeping juggernaut, Star Trek, conceived by Gene Roddenberry, and aired on NBC.