Star Trek/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** 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.

* [[Trope Namers]] For:

** [[Boldly Coming]]

** [[Deflector Shields]]

** [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: Referring to Kirk's much-maligned [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''Star Trek Generations''.

** [[The Federation]]

** [[Growing the Beard]]: An [[In Joke]] directed at Jonathan Frakes, whose character Cmd. Riker grew a beard at the same time TNG improved in overall quality.

** [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: "The Big Goodbye" (TNG)

** [[I Am Not Spock]]: From [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s autobiography.

** [[The Kirk]]

** [[Kirk Summation]]

** [[Klingon Promotion]]

** [[Klingon Scientists Get No Respect]]

** [[Vulcan Has No Moon]]

** [[Wagon Train to The Stars]]: Gene Roddenberry originally pitched his draft as ''[[Wagon Train]]'' <small>[[In Space]]</small>.

** [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]

** [[The Worf Effect]]

*** [[Worf Had the Flu]]

* [[Trope Makers]] for:

** [[Planet of Hats]]: Popularized by "A Piece of the Action" (TOS)

** [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]

** 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.)

** [[Tyler Perry]] as the commandant of Starfleet Academy;

** [[House MD|Cameron]] is Kirk's mother;

** [[Iron Man (Film)|Raza]] is Captain Robau;

** <s>[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Anamaria]]</s> [[Avatar (Film)|Neytiri]] is Uhura;

** 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."

** [[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.

** And [[Deep Roy|the next evolutionary step]] for [[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory|Oompa-loomps]]

** The young Captain Kirk [[Poseidon (Film)|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]].

** <nowiki>* </nowiki>Minute's silence<nowiki>* </nowiki>

** And Kirk's stepdad who's yelling at him on the car phone is [[Heroes (TV)|Matt Parkman]]!