Star Trek Trivia, Questions and Answers (with lots of spoilers!)

[antonijan]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 12:36am

With the release of the new "Star Trek" movie, a renewed interest with the francise emerged.

Personally, I actually wasn't interested with the original because I was more of a TNG fan but with this incarnation, the interest gap between the original and the TNG and other spin-offs have been connected.

Let's celebrate this with fun tidbits and trivias that you know from the original series, motion pictures, TNG, DSN, Voyager and that one with Bacula!

This thread could also be used for those burning questions you have and hopefully someone can provide answers for them, too.

Lemme start:

I just found out that former Jenny model Alley was in the Star Trek Part 2 Movie as Mr. Saavik.

What else can you share?

:)



Updated On: 5/14/09 at 12:36 AM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 12:55am

She was replaced in the third and fourth movie because of a drug problem (or so i heard)

[phantom8019]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 1:33pm

No, I think she was replaced because her salary demands were way too high for Star Trek III.

The Vulcan that Kim Cattrall played in Star Trek VI was originally supposed to be the same character Kirstie Alley and then Robin Curtis played (Saavik). But they decided to make her a different character once they realized Cattrall would be the third actress to play the role.
However, for Star Trek VI it would have made a lot more sense if it were Saavik. For one, the betrayal would have been a lot more shocking. Plus, Saavik has reason to hate Klingons, because she witnessed Kirk's son get murdered by them.
Updated On: 5/11/09 at 01:33 PM

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 2:07pm

The hand symbol for "Live Long and Prosper" is actually the symbol used by rabbis during the priestly blessing in Jewish services. If I remember right, it was Leonard Nimoy himself who came up with the idea.

I'm also not 100% sure on this one's accuracy, but I remember reading that the only person to be in some way in every incarnation of Star Trek up to and including the new movie is Majel Barrett, wife of the late Gene Roddenberry, who appeared as Nurse Chapel in the original series and Lwaxanna Troi in TNG and DS9, and in all other incarnations is the voice of the computers.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 2:30pm

^^ Including the new movie, for which she recorded her computer dialogue at home in her bedroom shortly before her death.

[antonijan]

Posted: 5/11/09 at 10:54pm

There were striking similarities between The themes in the "Wrath of Khan" and "Nemesis" where there is a death of a major character...

And the face-off of the antagonist and the protagonist :)

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/12/09 at 11:46pm

OOOO This is stuff I know!
How's this? In the episode that featured the "salt monster" the props people were told to get the most futuristic salt shakers they could find. But when they went to shoot the scene, Roddenberry realized they were SO futuristic no one would be able to recognize them and the key point ( the need for salt )would be lost on the audience. So, they went to the Commissary, got a regular salt shaker and shot the scene. BUT that was not the end of those future salt shakers- w almost no additional decoration they became Dr. McCoy's medical instruments. Waste not, want not!

[pharmer2000]

Posted: 5/13/09 at 12:34am

The new Kirk, is the son of Robert Pine, from CHiPs.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/13/09 at 1:03am

The original pilot (The Cage) which became the only 2 part episode of the orignal series The Menagerie features a Spock-like officer played by Majel Barrett. The Network brass recast the role as " no one would believe a female in such a position of power and authority". The character is nameless only refered to as "Number One" which of course is how Captain Picarde refers to Commander Riker! ( talk about turnabouts).

And then there was the famous debacle over Spock's ears. NBC was originally very uncomfortable about their pointy-ness thinking it was too Satanic and air brushed them out of media publicity shots. Then Spock turned into one of the most popular characters and they quickly toed the popularity line DENYING they had ever used airbrushing only when confronted w the actual items did they admit their goof but blaming it on a minor individual who had no such authority to do so!
(and people actually wonder why my generation distrusted authority!)

[Mekroth]

Posted: 5/13/09 at 11:38pm

More along the lines of airbrushing: When the famous green lady first made her appearance in the show's dailies, the editor (or somebody) thought her tint was an error on the film, and colored her back into a normal shade. When the film made it back to Roddenberry, he thought that they hadn't painted her green enough, and so made her greener and reshot the scene. This cycle repeated a few times until finally the misunderstanding was patched up.

[antonijan]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:45am

Question:

In Star Trek: Generations, how is Capt. Picards and Capt. Kirk able to go back to Veridian 3 from the temporal nexus?

Is it possible that they never left the nexus at all and all the while everything that happened after that was inside the nexus?