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* [[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.

** 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.

*** 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]].

** Then there is ''Uhura's Song''. A Federation planet of humanoid felines is having their worst known outbreak of a disease that periodically incapacitates most of their planet's population. Then Christine Chapel catches it -- and it affects humans more quickly than the feline race. The surest hope of finding the cure to this plague is to go to the planet the felines originally came from -- which they previously told outsiders doesn't exist despite biological evidence to the contrary; the medic who admits that planet's existence tries to commit suicide because he told them. The only clues for finding this planet are in the folk songs of the feline race, which the Federation only knows because Uhura befriended one of this race previously. This mission to find that planet and get the cure presumed to be on it, is deemed so important that the ''Enterprise'' crew is given permission to completely ignore the Prime Directive... And it only gets stranger. It's great fun, but if ''Star Trek's'' [[Expanded Universe]] was canon, this story would really wreak havoc with later continuity.

** 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.

 

== [[Star Trek (film)|Film: Star Trek]] (2009) ==

* [[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'').

** 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.)