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Trivia about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' includes:
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The ''Star Trek'' novel ''Before Dishonor'', by [[Peter David]]. Suffice it to say this book should not be read entirely sober, but for those who dare... We have sentient Borg cubes bigger than the planet Earth. That skip the assimilation middleman and just ram into starships and eat them. Along with Pluto. It's piloted by Captain Janeway, who becomes Borg Queen, eats Pluto, dies, and gets promoted to Q? Add 7 of 9 piloting the Doomsday Machine from [[The Original Series]], and a pair of Starfleet Admirals who place bets on [[The End of the World as We Know It]] after the Borg eat Pluto, and you have a recipe for hilarity. [[Refuge in Audacity]] at its apotheosis.
** In the same book, after the Borg eat Pluto, the planet / not planet debate gets mentioned by one of the Admirals: "They changed it back again? What's that, the tenth time in three centuries? Make up your minds." Then after the Borg eat Pluto, Admiral #2 casually drawls, "[[Pluto Is Expendable|Well, that settles that debate.]]" It's not a bad book, just completely insane.
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** More Trek goodness. The TOS novel ''How Much For Just the Planet?'' by John M. Ford features, among other things, a Klingon who's a fan of Humphrey Bogart, a milkshake-obsessed computer, spontaneous musical numbers, inflatable starships, a [[Planet of Hats|planet whose hat]] is comedy routines, a [[Neil Gaiman]] cameo, a Paramount [[Shout-Out]], and a truly epic Starfleet vs. Klingon... pie fight. And blue orange juice. And it is awesome.
*** Exceedingly.
** There have been no less than three ''[[Star Trek]]''/''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' [[Crossover|crossovers]], all of which have been pretty decent.
*** During one of these, a comment about how much Picard and Professor X look alike was made...[[Reverse Funny Aneurysm|years prior to Patrick Stewart earning the role of Professor X]].
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*** It probably doesn't help that the solution to the whole mystery lies in what key a song is sung in, either.
** Another ''Star Trek'' novel, ''The Tears of the Singers'', has the ''Enterprise'' drafting a great, arrogant, and mortally ill musician almost immediately after Uhura (on leave) had assured him that Starfleet was not a military organization. This musician is needed to help save the entire universe from a seal-people whose own efforts to save the entire universe are backfiring because they are getting killed for their dying tears, which become the most beautiful jewels in the universe.
** Any ''Deep Space Nine'' novel edited by Marco Palmieri is likely to have some weirdness. To name a few: Kira gets excommunicated; the First Minister of Bajor is assassinated by having his head cut off, just as he's about to accept Federation membership, because he's been subverted by a parasitic race that appeared in a first season TNG episode and is out to exterminate the Trill symbionts; and a Jem'hadar stabs Kira because he's being controlled by Iliana Ghemor, who is genetically engineered to be Kira, and is being chased by a Ghemor from an Alternate Universe, and is trying to kill every Kira in every universe, as well as become the Emissary of the Mirror Universe before Mirror Sisko can.
* [[Running Gag]]: It is commonly held that the odd-numbered films are bad, but the even ones are good. Nemesis (10, bad) and the Abrams film (11, [[Contested Sequel]]) are considered by some to have absolutely wrecked the system and by others to be the most clear example of "odd == bad" since Star Trek V (but still having broken "even == good"). But [http://qntm.org/?odd Sam Hughes has a solution], at least for those who liked XI.
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** Alternatively, the numerals in the title are added together to decide a movie's quality. The first (01) is 0+1=1=odd, the second (02) 0+2=2=even, etc. After the ninth, it goes 10 (1+0=1=odd) then 11 (1+1=2=even).
** Of course, people who liked the earlier series and movies don't need to go through complicated rationalisation processes because they tend to think XI ''was'' bad.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main The Memory Alpha]
* [[Trope Namers]] For:
** [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]
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== [[Star Trek (film)|Film: Star Trek]] (2009) ==
'''''MOD: Everything in this section needs to be moved to [[Star Trek (film)/Trivia]]'''''
* [[Fake American]]: Kiwi Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy. And pulling it off so well that he is almost indistinguishable from the Atlanta-born DeForest Kelley.
** To the point that [[Leonard Nimoy]] was moved to tears [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|at how much Karl Urban reminded him of his departed friend.]]
* [[Fake Nationality]]:
** Englishman Simon Pegg as Scotty, who is, well, Scottish (though James Doohan was Canadian, so this might be ''closer'').
** Dominican/Puerto Rican-American [[Zoe
** Canadian Bruce Greenwood as American Christopher Pike.
** Interestingly, the most blatant example from the original series is averted. Leningrad-born but American-raised [[Anton Yelchin]] plays Chekov, originally played by American Walter Koenig with a fairly ridiculous [[Fake Accent]]. (In homage, Yelchin kept the accent.)
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*** And Sulu is the [[American Pie|MILF Guy]]. Or maybe he's just having an exceptionally ''long'' [[FlashForward|flash forward]]...
** [[Troy|Hector]] is Nero;
*** Let's not forget it's not the only time he's been a [[The Time
** [[Terminator|Kyle Reese from T4]] is Chekov!
** [[Shaun of the Dead|Shaun]] / [[Hot Fuzz|Nicholas Angel]] as Scotty;
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** Younger tropers will know Captain Pike as the [[Memetic Mutation|Goddamn]] [[Batman: Under the Red Hood|Batman]].
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