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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.
** 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.
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** [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Referring to Kirk's much-maligned [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''Star Trek Generations''.
** [[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)
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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 Saldana]] as African-born Uhura (though Nichelle Nichols is straight-up African American so this isn't really any different)
** 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, It's That Guy!]]:
** [[Tyler Perry]] as the commandant of Starfleet Academy;
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*** And Sulu is the [[American Pie|MILF Guy]]. Or maybe he's just having an exceptionally ''long'' [[Flash Forward 2009|flash forward]]...
** [[Troy|Hector]] is Nero;
*** Let's not forget it's not the only time he's been a [[The Time Travellers Wife|time-traveler]]!
** [[Terminator|Kyle Reese from T4]] is Chekov!
** [[Shaun of the Dead|Shaun]] / [[Hot Fuzz|Nicholas Angel]] as Scotty;
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** And [[Deep Roy|the next evolutionary step]] for [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Oompa-loomps]]
** The young Captain Kirk [[Poseidon|managed to survive a sinking ship in 2006]].
** [[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, It's That Voice!]]: The late Majel Barrett Roddenberry reprises her role as the Computer Voice one last time.
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