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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.▼
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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
** 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.
** Consider what else [[Peter David]] has put into ''Star Trek'' novels: a giant bird/energy being hatching out of a planet and impregnating a starship; a one-eyed, one-horned, giant purple people eater; a woman who looks like Lwaxana Troi and Christine Chapel, and is immortal...who he manages to kill...except that her consciousness is now in a starship; a helmsman who regularly sleeps at his post and is part Greek god; a hermaphrodite chief engineer (hir whole species is hermaphroditic) who impregnates a Vulcan, of all people; and an episode inside a pocket universe that is, for all intents and purposes, a jellyfish. And that's just ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]''.
** 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
*** Exceedingly.
** There have been no less than three ''[[
*** 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]].
**
*** 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.
** Another solution is that since it's a continuity reboot, the Abrams film could be considered ''Star Trek'' '''Zero''', and thus be an even-numbered film.
** 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]]
** [[Boldly Coming]]
** [[
** [[Deflector Shields]]
** [[Dropped a Bridge
** [[The Federation]]
** [[Growing the Beard]]: An [[In
** [[He's Dead, Jim]]: McCoy's most frequent diagnosis. No wonder they call him Bones.
** [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: "The Big Goodbye" (TNG)
** [[I Am Not Spock]]: From [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s autobiography.
** [[I'm a Doctor, Not
** [[In the Original Klingon]]: ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''
** [[Inertial Dampening]]
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** [[The Kirk]]
** [[Kirk Summation]]
*** [[Shut Up, Kirk]]
** [[
** [[Klingon Promotion]]
** [[Klingon Scientists Get No Respect]]
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** [[The Spock]]
** [[Spock Speak]]
** [[Straw Vulcan]]: The interstellar flavor of [[Screw You, Elves]]
** [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]: Named for the costume designer on ''The Original Series''.
** [[Trekkie]]
** [[Vulcan Has No Moon]]
** [[Wagon Train to
** [[We Come in Peace, Shoot
** [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]
** [[The Worf Effect]]
*** [[The Worf Barrage]]
*** [[Worf Had the Flu]]
* [[Trope
** [[Green
** [[Planet of Hats]]: Popularized by "A Piece of the Action" (TOS)
** [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]
== [[Star Trek (
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* [[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.)
* [[Hey,
** [[Tyler Perry]] as the commandant of Starfleet Academy;
** [[House MD|Cameron]] is Kirk's mother;
** [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]] is Spock;
** [[Beetlejuice
** [[Chariots of Fire|Harold Abrahams]]/[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Barnabas Collins]] as Sarek;
** [[The Lord of the Rings (
** [[Harold
*** And Sulu is the [[American Pie|MILF Guy]]. Or maybe he's just having an exceptionally ''long'' [[
** [[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;
** [[Nowhere Man]] as Captain Pike;
** [[Iron Man (
** <s>[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Anamaria]]</s> [[Avatar (
** [[G.I. Joe:
** James Cawley, who plays Kirk in the fan series ''Star Trek Phase II'' appears in a walk-on role.
** Randy Pausch, the late professor from "The Last Lecture", has a brief walk on role aboard the ''USS Kelvin''. Mostly done as a nod to one of his childhood dreams of "Being Captain Kirk."
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** [[Stargate Atlantis|Paul McGillion]] was on screeen for [[The Cameo|10 seconds]] -- enough to be noticed and [[Squee]]'d at.
** [[Prison Break|Agent Kim]] cameos as a Starfleet instructor.
** Chris Doohan, son of original Scotty actor [[James Doohan]], plays Scotty's assistant in the ''Enterprise'' transporter room. He and his brother Montgomery had previously appeared as extras in ''[[Star Trek:
** And [[Deep Roy|the next evolutionary step]] for [[Charlie and
** The young Captain Kirk [[Poseidon
** [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Groves]] got demoted to [[Red Shirt]].
** and in the sequel, the villain is going to be [[Benedict Cumberbatch|Sherlock]] [[Sherlock|Holmes]].
* [[Hey,
** <nowiki>* </nowiki>Minute's silence<nowiki>* </nowiki>
** And Kirk's stepdad who's yelling at him on the car phone is [[Heroes (TV series)|Matt Parkman]]!
** [[Wil Wheaton|Wesley Crusher]] himself is the voice of all the male Romulans except Nero and Ayel.
** And [[Alias (TV series)|Victor Garber]] is a Klingon [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|in a deleted scene]] (he never takes his helmet off, so it's this trope)!
** Younger tropers will know Captain Pike as the [[Memetic Mutation|Goddamn]] [[Batman: Under the Red Hood|Batman]].
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