Star Trek - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Star Trek or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Star Trek

[kim]

It's possible and likely Spock's half-brother Sybok was banished from Vulcan before Nero destroyed the planet. (See: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)).

[wesley]

The Romulans are wearing Japanese tabi boots; shoes that have a separate section for the big toe. Such footwear actually gives the wearer more stability than ordinary shoes.

[toni]

Zoe Saldana never saw Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), but agreed to play the role of Uhura after J.J. Abrams had complimented her previous performances ("For an actor, that's all you need, that's all you want: to get the acknowledgment and respect from your peers."). However, Saldana's mother was a huge fan of Star Trek, and sent her voice mails during filming, giving advice on the role.

[ken]

LeVar Burton later went on record to say that he was disappointed with this film.

[chad]

Ben Cross' best-known role prior to this film was in Chariots of Fire (1981), which was also the film debut of Alice Krige, who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

[nicholas]

J.J. Abrams claimed it was surreal to direct Leonard Nimoy as Spock: "This guy has been doing it for forty years!"

[lena]

Eighteen council members and one stenographer are convened for the Honor court scene. Only five council members are given clear name plates. Admiral Richard Barnett, Admiral James Komack, Admiral Gretchen Lui, and Lieutenant Alice Pearl Ives, played by Patricia Milano. The fifth is Admiral Neville Chandra, a character that refers to a generational link to the episode Star Trek: The Original Series: Court Martial (1967) that is an inspiration for the scene.

[violet]

The U.S.S. Enterprise was originally redesigned by Ryan Church using features of the original, making this 1200 feet (370 meters) long. However, this was later scaled up by a factor of 1.94 to 2,357 feet (718 meters) to make it seem grander.

[francisco]

In this film, Spock decides to maroon an uncooperative Kirk on the planet Delta Vega. This mirrors Star Trek: The Original Series: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), in which Spock suggests that Kirk maroon Lieutenant Gary Mitchell on the same planet.

[carla]

The snowscapes would have been shot in Iceland, but this was too expensive, so they were shot in Alaska instead.

[bryan]

The first theatrical trailer uses the track "Down with the Enterprise" by Two Steps From Hell. This was an adaptation of Brian Tyler's track "War Begins" from his Children of Dune (2003) score.

[dustin]

Simon Pegg described Scotty as a Scot stereotype, but a positive one ("Scots are the first people to laugh at the fact that they drink and fight a bit"), and that Scotty comes from a long line of Scotsmen with technical expertise, like John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell.

[kristina]

J.J. Abrams' "good luck charm" Greg Grunberg had to turn down a role in this film due to other commitments. However, Grunberg was worked into the movie during post-production, voicing James T. Kirk's stepfather.

[linda]

Although the first Star Trek film to pass the $100 million mark outside the U.S., the film continued the franchise's tradition of only earning a third of its worldwide total gross outside the U.S. By contrast, the average blockbuster makes around two-thirds of its total gross outside the U.S. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016) broke with this tradition, earning most of their incomes outside the U.S.

[clayton]

The sound made by the "motorcycle" that Kirk rides to the shuttle departing to Starfleet Academy is the same sound used on The Jetsons (1962) for the "cars" they fly.

[oscar]

This film finally establishes Uhura's first name in Star Trek canon as Nyota. Gene Roddenberry never came up with a first name for her while Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) was in production, and as only live-action television series and films are considered canon, non-canon materials such as novels invented their own first names. Nyota, the Swahili word for star, was first used in 1982 and is often used in printed Star Trek literature, including the DC Comics publication "Who's Who in Star Trek", though some materials have used "Samara" and "Penda".

[cameron]

After the scene in the bar, Captain Pike says to Kirk "You know your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives. Including your mother's and yours. I dare you to do better." From the moment that Kirk first takes his seat as acting Captain of the Enterprise, it is twelve minutes until the point where Spock destroys the Narada's space drill, saving the lives of everyone on Earth.

[ava]

William Shatner had wanted a major role in the film like Leonard Nimoy, and wanted James T. Kirk to accompany Spock Prime back in time, even though Kirk had officially died in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He suggested the film draw on the novels, where Kirk is resurrected, but J.J. Abrams felt that if Kirk accompanied Spock, this would then be a film about the resurrection of Kirk, and not about reintroducing the Star Trek saga anew. Nimoy disliked Kirk's death in Generations, but also concurred that resurrecting Kirk would be detrimental to this film.

[jeffrey]

Leonard McCoy mentions joining Starfleet after his divorce. This refers to D.C. Fontana's (one of the Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) writers) backstory for McCoy written for the third season, but never filmed. That unused subplot established this failed marriage, and also McCoy's daughter Joanna.