The Most Obscure Trek Factoids Ever

[Tiberius]

One thing about me is that I love all sorts of weird tidbits of information. So I want to apply that to Star trek. What are the most obscure bits of Trek trivia you know?

I'll start by saying that the model of the Enterprise's hull that was built to show the slice being taken out in Q Who was built in forced perspective and could only have been viewed from that one angle.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

The first totally CGI ship in Trek was the Enterprise D as it flew up near the Sheliak Corporate ship in "The Ensigns of Command."

Oh, it looks gawd-awful.

 

[Tiberius]

You mean where the Sheliak ship approaches the E after they beam Picard and troi back? Have you got a source for that?

 

[Bill Morris]

The impulse engines of the Romulan D'Deridex class Warbird are not visible because they grabbed the design drawing off Andy Probert's desk before he had a chance to draw them, and the model maker didn't ask about them. He said they would have been in a vertical slit at far aft.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The self-destruct codes for the original Enterprise in Star Trek III was first heard in the TOS episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield:"

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

You mean where the Sheliak ship approaches the E after they beam Picard and troi back? Have you got a source for that?

Just recently, I guess , MA changed their tune and said that no one has confirmed the shot is CGI as it was very expensive to do at the time. They now speculate it is the n2-foot model. However, I look at this picture and can't help but think that someone whipped it up on a computer before deadline.
You can judge for yourself

 

[captcalhoun]

Claire Raymond from the episode "The Neutral Zone" has the names of the first six Doctors from Doctor Who as her descendants.

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/2/22/Drwho.jpg

 

[nightwind1]

Claire Raymond from the episode "The Neutral Zone" has the names of the first six Doctors from Doctor Who as her descendants.

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/2/22/Drwho.jpg

If you look at that pic really closely, the last two names are Mary Richards and Lou Grant

 

[Green Shirt]

If you look at that pic really closely, the last two names are Mary Richards and Lou Grant

So, those two did hook up, after all.

 

[Greg Cox]

I still can't get over the fact that Kirk's Enterprise had a bowling alley!

 

[jayrath]

Spock originally was to have a plate in his stomach by which to absorb energy.

 

[plynch]

Spock originally was to have a plate in his stomach by which to absorb energy.

I have one of those, actually. The omentum.

 

[Maurice]

The TMP Enterprise model had tiny photo transparencies behind some of the windows (you can see silhouettes in some shots), including Andy Probert and Mickey Mouse.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Only two actors have played the same character dying TWICE in the same season - Jeffrey Combs and Vaughn Armstrong.

 

[Green Shirt]

Maybe less obscure, but more frequently ignored is the fact that the TOS Enterprise is Starship Class, not Constitution Class. Well, according to the Dedication Plaque, anyway.

 

[Tiberius]

I believe that the tech journals Scotty was reading in Trouble with Tribbles labelled it as a constitution class...

 

[Green Shirt]

I believe that the tech journals Scotty was reading in Trouble with Tribbles labelled it as a constitution class...

So that's where that misinformation started.

 

[The_Baroness]

Deep Space Nine's promenade contains offices for "Jupiter Mining Coroporation" and "DivaDroid Inc" which are both from Red Dwarf.

It also has a Milliways, from Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and a few other little tid bits if you look at the Promenade Directory board from the set...

 

[captcalhoun]

including Del Floria's tailor shop from Man From UNCLE. a joke on Garak being an ex-spy turned tailor.

one of the graves in Sub Rosa is visibly labelled 'McFly', another bore the name 'Vader'.

 

[T'Girl]

Maybe less obscure, but more frequently ignored is the fact that the TOS Enterprise is Starship Class, not Constitution Class. Well, according to the Dedication Plaque, anyway.

The dedication plate on one of the movie Enterprise-A also stated Starship Class, Picard (on the holodeck) once called it a Constitution Class, interestingly the imagines used for the holodeck scene (with Scotty) were from the episodes This Side of Paradise and The Mark of Gideon. There is a dedication plaque visible in the turbolift alcove that said Starship Class."

The dedication plate in Star Trek Eleven also said Starship Class.

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