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** 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.

** [[Captain's Log]]

** [[Deflector Shields]]

** [[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.

** [[In the Original Klingon]]: ''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''

** [[Inertial Dampening]]

** [[The Spock]]

** [[Spock Speak]]

** [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]: Named for the costume designer on ''The Original Series''.

** [[Trekkie]]

** [[Vulcan Has No Moon]]

** [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]

** [[The Worf Effect]]

** [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]

 

* [[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.]]

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

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

** [[Harold and Kumar|Harold]] is Sulu;

*** And Sulu is the [[American Pie|MILF Guy]]. Or maybe he's just having an exceptionally ''long'' [[Flash Forward 2009|flash forward]]...

** [[Shaun of the Dead|Shaun]] / [[Hot Fuzz|Nicholas Angel]] as Scotty;

** [[Nowhere Man]] as Captain Pike;

** 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.

** [[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.

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

** [[Wil Wheaton|Wesley Crusher]] himself is the voice of all the male Romulans except Nero and Ayel.

 

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