Star Trek Where You Least Expect It

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Star Trek references are quite common and sometimes they show up in places not all that surprising but sometimes they show up in places you don't expect.

For me the most surprising was after I discovered what my music niche was back in 2008 (I was a late bloomer to finding music I liked at the age of 16/17) I discovered the band Edenbridge who over the years have realesed many songs referencing Star Trek.

The Undiscovered Land, Farpoint Anywhere, Where Silence Has Lease, Move Along Home, What You Leave Behind, Terra Nova, Images in the Sand, Shadowplay, Remember Me, The Bonding, Shiantara, The Die is Not Cast, The Visitor, Return to Grace, All Our Yesterdays, Tears of the Prophets, Per Aspera ad Astra.

Most if not all of the albums were recorded at Farpoint Station Studio just to further cement it.

What are some unexpected places you've seem Star Trek pop up?

 

[Tango]

I ran into one just today. I’m reading a book on the history of complex numbers by P.J. Nahin, when deep into chapter 3 he says “…nearly everybody who has seen Star Trek has heard of these days - the geometry of curved spacetime.” Huh.

 

[Forbin]

Waaaay back before TNG, when Trek was still a basement-dwelling nerd cliche, Saturday Night Live did a skit about video dating services (where you watched videos of potential dates to select one). The gag was, instead of sitting and introducing himself, a guy produced an elaborate music video about himself, and among the things he looked for in a partner was... "She should like STAARR TREK!"

Found it!

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[XCV330]

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Star Trek references are quite common and sometimes they show up in places not all that surprising but sometimes they show up in places you don't expect.

One of the earlier ones is from a line by Paul Winfield himself in TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING, five years before his foolhardy misguided ''take one for the Shat'' fatal phaser burst.

Who here can name the two films which show bits of TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY? One is somewhat more popular than the other. (While the older one of the pair has a ''future Watchman'' cameo.)

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Who here can name the two films which show bits of TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY? One is somewhat more popular than the other. (While the older one of the pair has a ''future Watchman'' cameo.)

Days of Future Past?

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Days of Future Past?

Yep. That's the newer popular one.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I've regularly made the declaration, "With apologies to Harlan Ellison, a young Joan Collins, and her character, Edith Keeler, a spam-text is an inexcusably boorish way to say hello." (Riffing, of course, off "A lie is a very poor way to say hello.")

 

[Cicero]

I was surprised by the references in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (including an appearance by Star Trek: The Experience). Presley was apparently a huge fan of the original series.

 

[Tango]

The X-Men movie? Where did the original footage come from (I presume you are referring to the air base stock footage)? US Air Force publicity footage?

 

[Ovation]

It’s certainly not new, but when I went to see Crimson Tide at the cinema (a long, long time ago), I had no idea a key scene in the film would include Trek references.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

The X-Men movie? Where did the original footage come from (I presume you are referring to the air base stock footage)? US Air Force publicity footage?

I screwed up, and not for the first time. It's not TOMORROW IN YESTERDAY that's shown in DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. It's actually the time-warping moment in THE NAKED TIME.

As for the older, less popular flick which DOES show TOMORROW, that one's THE OUTSIDE MAN, which as a sequence where little 10-year-old Jackie Earle Haley is watching the episode. He comments ''The Captain will find a way out. He always does.''

 

[Ovation]

Perhaps only tangentially related but To Kill a Mockingbird features four future Trek alumni: Brock Peters, Paul Fix, William Windom, and Frank Overton.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Perhaps only tangentially related but To Kill a Mockingbird features four future Trek alumni: Brock Peters, Paul Fix, William Windom, and Frank Overton.

What better opportunity to shout out their respective performances in SOYLENT GREEN, THE BAD SEED, THE DETECTIVE and FAIL-SAFE?

 

[Greg Cox]

There was a fun bit on LOST where somebody had to explain the concept of "redshirts" to Locke.

Locke's response?

"Sounds to me like this Kirk was a piss-poor captain."

 

[Farscape One]

There was a fun bit on LOST where somebody had to explain the concept of "redshirts" to Locke.

Locke's response?

"Sounds to me like this Kirk was a piss-poor captain."

Even Locke can't bat a thousand...

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

There was a fun bit on LOST where somebody had to explain the concept of "redshirts" to Locke.

Locke's response?

"Sounds to me like this Kirk was a piss-poor captain."

Particularly when, except for one mute guard from LAST WHICH SURVIVES, no guard ever comes close to personally saving Kirk's bacon......or ham.