Star Trek: First Contact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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The song "Ooby Dooby" by Roy Orbison, was used in the pilot episode of Quantum Leap (1989), starring Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) star Scott Bakula.

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In this movie, the Emergency Medical Hologram says "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop." This is a nod to Dr. McCoy from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966). Whenever McCoy was given a non-medical task, he would say "I'm a doctor, not a... (bricklayer, moon shuttle conductor, escalator, et cetera)"

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When the Vulcans land on Earth and make first contact, Cochran is unable to return the Vulcan salute. This is a reference to an old joke about Star Trek: The Original Series (1966). Many fans and quite a few actors and actresses throughout the Star Trek franchise cannot separate their fingers the right way. The most notable actor who cannot do this is William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk).

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Michael Zaslow: Who appeared as Crewman Darnell in Star Trek: The Original Series: The Man Trap (1966) (the first Trek to be broadcast), makes an uncredited cameo as the barkeep. Claims that Darnell was the first actor/character/crewman to be killed on Star Trek, are not really valid, because the series episodes were not broadcast in the order they were made, and the original pilot, "The Cage", is ignored completely in such arguments. In the original pilot Star Trek: The Original Series: The Cage (1966), Michael Dugan (Rigel VII Warrior) was the first actor/character killed, by falling onto the broken spear point that Captain Pike was holding up as the warrior fell. In terms of the series episodes that were aired, the first crewman killed was in Star Trek: The Original Series: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966), the second pilot for the series which led to the show being approved and broadcast, even if this was not the first episode aired. Paul Carr (Lieutenant Lee Kelso) was telekinetically strangled in the control room of the lithium cracking station on Delta Vega by Gary Lockwood (Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell) from the security cell where Mitchell was being held.

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The center of the rear bulkhead in the Phoenix cockpit is a back-lit eyeglass display stand, used in numerous retail stores, turned upside-down.

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The Enterprise-E sickbay is a redress of the sickbay from Star Trek: Voyager (1995).