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.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In April 1800, through the introduction of Hungarian writer Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, he was initiated into Freemasonry in the Lodge Pythagoras of the Blazing Star where he was elected minor warden.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

( He-Man and the Masters of the Universe also had several Trek-similar stories, most notably " The Arena ", which is very similar to Star Trek: The Original Seriess first season episode, " Arena "; regular Trek writer D. C. Fontana also penned the second season He-Man episode " Battlecat ").

The similarity between Q and Trelane, the alien encountered in Star Trek episode " The Squire of Gothos ", inspired writer Peter David to establish in his 1994 novel Q-Squared that Trelane is a member of the Continuum, and that Q is his godfather ...

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy ; everything done with the character was done with Kelley's input.

Star Trek writer / producer Ronald D. Moore has indicated that it is larger than the Klingon Empire but smaller than the Federation.

* 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

* Robert Hewitt Wolfe, writer, producer, and / or executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Andromeda, The Dead Zone, The 4400, and The Dresden Files

Fandom encompasses subsets of fans that are principally interested in a single writer or subgenre, such as Tolkien fandom, and Star Trek fandom (" Trekkies ").

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana ( Dorothy Catherine ) wrote using her abbreviated own name and also under the pen names Michael Richards and J. Michael Bingham.

Wrath of Khan director and writer Nicholas Meyer, who had never seen an episode of Star Trek before he was assigned to direct, focused on the " Hornblower in outer space " atmosphere, unaware it was an influence on the show.

In 2010, it was announced that Star Trek writer Harry Kloor had written a script for a potential film adaptation and optioned the film rights.

On the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars, writer and director George Lucas describes R2-D2 as " the main driving force of the movie ... what you say in the movie business is the MacGuffin ... the object of everybody's search ".

Present-day Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø referenced Thorvaldsen's " Jason " in the novel " The Devil's Star ", where the novel's detective protagonist is reminded of the statue when investigating a murder which happened in an Oslo apartment with neo-Classical furnishings.

In early 1967, a group of six investors ( among them attorney Richard Tinkham, John DeVoe, Chuck DeVoe, sports agent Chuck Barnes and Indianapolis Star sports writer Bob Collins ) pooled their resources to purchase a franchise in the proposed American Basketball Association.

Steven Barnes's novelization of " Far Beyond the Stars " partners with Greg Cox's The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volume Two ) to tell us that the story " Far Beyond the Stars " — and, by extension, all of Star Trek itself — is the creation of 1950s writer Benny Russell.

Nimoy approached Beverly Hills Cop writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. to write the screenplay when a concept that executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg described as " either the best or worst idea in the world " arose — Star Trek fan Eddie Murphy wanted a starring role.

Paramount was dissatisfied with the script, so its head of production Dawn Steele asked Nicholas Meyer, the writer and director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, to help rewrite it.

* Joe Posnanski – Senior writer at Sports Illustrated and award-winning sports columnist for the Kansas City Star.

Also in an interview with Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago by the Philippine Star in March 25, 2012 she shared her experience as a speech writer to President Marcos: " one time, the Secretary of Justice forgot to tell me that the President had requested him to draft a speech that the President was going to deliver before graduates of the law school.

Conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, the JSA first appeared in All Star Comics # 3 ( Winter 1940 ).

So with all this experience, Bob Fogg was a natural choice to receive the first Emergency Air Mail Star Route contract.

In 1975-76 Bob Sproull and William Newman developed the Press format, which was eventually used in the Xerox Star system to drive laser printers.

But there was a producer on that show, a man named Bob Justman .... six, seven years later, I get this call from Bob Justman and he ’ s working at Paramount on this new Star Trek series and he said I remember your love of the show, we ’ ve got this character, would you be interested in coming in and seeing us?

Carpenter's article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 ( 1983 ), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as the fictional director " Aram Nicholas ," a sympathetic but possibly misguided and naive character.

The performance consisted of three Purple Rain tracks (" Let's Go Crazy ", " Baby I'm a Star " and the title track ), along with cover versions of " We Will Rock You " by Queen, " All Along the Watchtower " by Bob Dylan, the Foo Fighters song " Best of You " and " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Milton Berle ( many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco – see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: " We're the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico ...").

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

* 1977: Star Wars-Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball

The title and logo for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are direct references to the second-released Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.

Bessemer is served by one weekly newspaper, The Western Star, which is owned by Bob Tribble as part of his newspaper corporation based in Manchester, Ga. Coverage in this paper is not limited to the city proper, but instead covers all of the Bessemer Cutoff, including Bessemer, Hueytown, McCalla, Midfield, Fairfield, Brighton, Lipscomb, and the large sections of western Jefferson County that remain unincorporated.

Star City, Arkansas was the stage for 1992 police thriller film entitled One False Move, starring actors Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, and written by Thornton.

The film, based on Robert Graysmith's book The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes ?, portrays Crane as a happily married, church-going family man and popular Los Angeles disc jockey who suddenly becomes a Hollywood celebrity, and subsequently declines into sex addiction.

Star Control is a science fiction video game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1990.

Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters was written by Toys for Bob ( Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III ) and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for DOS ; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation, allowed by the CD technology.

On April 11, 2006, Alex Ness ( Producer of Toys for Bob ) wrote an article on the Toys For Bob website, titled " Star Control Sequel-Get Out Of My Dreams ".

Near the end of the article, he hinted that " if enough of you people out there send me emails requesting that Toys For Bob do a legitimate sequel to Star Control 2, I'll be able to show them to Activision, along with a loaded handgun, and they will finally be convinced to roll the dice on this thing.

On April 16 that same year, the Ur-Quan Masters website added an article to their page titled " Toys for Bob want another Star Control and need your help!

In February 2009, Cedric Horner undertook the creation of a Star Control II mod based on the source files released by Toys For Bob in 2002.

This led to the Star Trek parody where Paul Keating was Mr. Spock and Bob Hawke was captain Kirk.

# " Dark Star " ( Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Robert Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, and Bob Weir ) – 23: 18

The Star Wars films, the fights for which are choreographed by Bob Anderson & Peter Diamond ( Episodes IV, V & VI ) and Nick Gillard ( Episodes I, II & III ), tend to portray its lightsaber combat using swordsmanship techniques drawn from existing martial arts, but performed with fantasy weapons such as lightsabers or The Force, whereas the action featured in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy also choreographed by Bob Anderson employed fantasy weapons and fighting styles, designed by Tony Wolf.