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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* A second exit for the bridge, referred to in Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual and seen in the refitted Enterprise and the NCC-1701-A from the first six Star Trek movies.

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.

Starship designs were produced which closely resemble the Kzinti / Mirak ships from the Star Fleet Universe, a gaming universe that includes the boardgame Star Fleet Battles and its PC analogue Star Fleet Command.

* Karzan ( mentioned only in Star Fleet Technical Manual, currently not officially considered canon )

This information below originates from the board wargame Star Fleet Battles, as well as related game systems such as Prime Directive and Federation and Empire.

Much as occurred in the original series, Romulans of the ( non-canon ) Star Fleet Universe descended from the Vulcans, having rejected the movement toward an unemotional, logic-based society, and settled in a distant star system.

The Romulans in the Star Fleet Universe held a long-standing enmity with the Gorn Confederation, but their old " Eagle " series warships were no match against the advanced Gorn warships.

Wargames also diversified in subject, with the first science-fiction wargame ( Galactic Warfare, published in the UK by Davco ) appearing in 1973 and one of the longest lasting and most successful ( Star Fleet Battles, published by Task Force Games ) appearing in 1979 ; and in size with both microgames such as Steve Jackson's Ogre, and " monster games " appearing during the decade.

* Star Fleet Battles-( Task Force Games, 1978 ) one of the older still actively played and published wargames today ; based on Star Trek, it is arguably the most successful tactical space combat system that does not rely on miniatures ( published by Amarillo Design Bureau ).

May released a mini-album titled Star Fleet Project, on which he collaborated with Eddie Van Halen.

However, once contamination has occurred, Star Fleet personnel are allowed to directly intervene on the planet to attempt to minimize the harm as much as possible with an openness in proportion of how significant the exposure has been.

However, as Star Fleet does not officially make first contact with the Organians until the original series episode " Errand of Mercy ," it is unknown what impact, if any, they had on the development of the directive.

In the fictional storyline, the Prime Directive was created by Star Fleet and the United Federation of Planets shortly after they were first formed.

Much to his regret, the intervention proved disastrous with a power-hungry subordinate making Gill his puppet and causing the regime to adopt the same racial supremacist and genocidal ideologies of the original, forcing Star Fleet personnel to intervene directly to minimize the harm to the societies.

By the time of the era of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Prime Directive was indicated to apply not only to just pre-warp civilizations, but also, indeed, to any culture with whom Star Fleet comes into contact.

* 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.

Inspired by the Xerox Star and Apple Lisa, TPS ( Technical Publishing Software ) uniquely enabled authors to write their text and create technical graphics on a computer screen that showed what the page would look like when formatted and printed on a laser printer.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.

According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual claims that the devices transport objects in real time, accurate to the quantum level.

A possible explanation for this is put forward in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, where such site-to-site transports would probably use twice as much energy as would be required for transport to or from the transporter room itself, since the subject would have to be beamed to the transporter, stored, then shunted to their destination.

In many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri.

In some non-canonical works like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Articles of the Federation, the Federation's founding document is called the " Articles Of Federation ," which has been popular fan tradition.

The Tri-D chessboard was further realized by its inclusion in the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, who created starting positions for the pieces and short, additional rules.

* Franz Joseph Schnaubelt ( 1975 ), Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, ISBN 0-345-34074-4

* R. Sternbach & M. Okuda, Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual New York: Bantam Books ( 1991 )

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual says that the Universal Translator is an " extremely sophisticated computer program " which functions by " analyzing the patterns " of an unknown foreign language, starting from a speech sample of two or more speakers in conversation.

* Star Wars Technical Commentaries

A replicator can create any inanimate matter, as long as the desired molecular structure is on file, but it cannot create antimatter, dilithium, latinum, or a living organism of any kind ; in the case of living organisms, non-canon works such as the Star Trek: the Next Generation Technical Manual state that, though the replicators use a form of transporter technology, it's at such a low resolution that creating living tissue is a physical impossibility.

Unlike the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, however, it makes no detailed speculations about Star Trek technology.