Trek Triva: Did you know??

[Monster Dave]

Check these out - some I knew others I didn't!

This one really surprised me:

 

[CessnaDriver]

You will never stump this guy!......

Patrick Stewart: Monologue | Video | Saturday Night Live | NBC

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Like you, knew some and not others. Nice little list! :thumbsup

 

[Jeyl]

This is one of my favorites.

Did you know that there are lyrics to the original theme?

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wond'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

Why were the lyrics never used? Simple answer. Money. Despite both Gene Roddenberry and Alexander Courage agreeing that lyrics for the theme wouldn't work, Gene wrote lyrics with the intention of NEVER USING THEM and in so doing earned him half the royalties that this theme would make whenever it was used. How's that for someone who brings us stuff like-

Picard: People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy.

 

[AJK001]

Why were the lyrics never used? Simple answer. Money. Despite both Gene Roddenberry and Alexander Courage agreeing that lyrics for the theme wouldn't work, Gene wrote lyrics with the intention of NEVER USING THEM and in so doing earned him half the royalties that this theme would make whenever it was used.

I've always wondered why he got a credit for the theme music. Most of the time you just see it credited to Alexander Courage, but every once in a while they will throw in Roddenberry's name too.

I knew most of the things on the list, but there were a few that I had never heard before.

 

[CessnaDriver]

NCC-1701

For a long time the story was it was inspired from the registration number of Jeffries plane.
He did encourage this false belief but that plane was purchased after Star Trek.
The truth is more interesting and he explained...

"NC, by international agreement, stood for all United States commercial vehicles. Russia had wound up with four Cs, CC CC. It’d been pretty much a common opinion that any major effort in space would be too expensive for any one country, so I mixed the US and the Russian and came up with NCC.

The one seven zero part - I needed a number that would be instantly identifiable, and three, six, eight and nine are too easily confused. I don’t think anyone’ll confuse a one and a seven, or the zero. So the one seven stood for the seventeenth basic ship design in the Federation, and the zero one would have been serial number one, the first bird."

 

[Wolvster1]

Love the Wheaton one, didn't he post a pic some time
back about how his royalty or commission or whatever
it's called from TNG was something like a PENNY CHECK ?!?


:lol :lol :lol

 

[Jeyl]

Unfortunately there isn't a single projected display shown in that screen cap. But there are a crap ton of them at Spock's and Uhura's stations.

Something that should be pointed out on the "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"'s bridge displays being rear projected. When you have that many displays going on with that many projectors, it creates a lot of noise. As a result, all of the sound had to be redone on the bridge including sound effects and dialogue (ADR). When Star Trek II used actual Televisions for the displays that made no noise, the crew were able to use real onset audio for the final edit.

If you watch the deleted scenes or the Special Longer Edition when the crew are commenting on the size of the V'Ger vessel, one of the added scenes actually contains sound that was recorded onset. You can hear the projectors clearly when Spock says his line "Fascinating. That vessel is generating a force field greater than the radiation of Earth's sun".

While certainly clever at the time, the images that came from the projections weren't all that powerful. If you look at some shots, any light that hits a display completely washes out any image that you can see on the screen. This is because the material that the image is being projected on to needs to be so sensitive to light that it can be seen from the other side, so any light that hits it will pretty much make the whole thing pure white. This is why a lot of the displays have those wacky shades over them so the set light wouldn't shine directly onto them.

 

[Jeyl]

While he did make attempts to hide it, not all were successful.

Catspaw
Star Trek V

However, canon wise he does have all of his fingers. If you watch the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics" that Scotty appears in, they did some trickery to show he had all five fingers on his right hand. It comes almost immediately following the title sequence when he's working on the console to try and rescue Franklin. If you watch the closeup shot of his hand working the console, you will see his hand has all five fingers.

 

[Jeyl]

I don’t think anyone’ll confuse a one and a seven, or the zero

Actually, there's a system that people use to help distinguish those exact numbers to avoid confusion.

When you try looking at how some people write these numbers by hand, it can create some confusion. Some will write a one with a serif (that's the little downward's pointing tip on top of the 1) and make the angled curve of a 7 a bit too straight. This is why some people will write a 7 with a dash through it to avoid confusion.

Same reason why the number 0 has a dash through it so you can tell the difference between a capital letter O and the number 0. A dash means it's a number. Serial Numbers that don't do that can cause quite a headache.

 

[Wes R]

I didn't even notice that it was Tyler Perry in 09, so used to him dressing as a woman lol. Doohan coulda lied and said he lost it in one of his famous temper bursts on set lol.

 

[PotionMistress]

While he did make attempts to hide it, not all were successful.

Catspaw
Star Trek V

However, canon wise he does have all of his fingers. If you watch the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics" that Scotty appears in, they did some trickery to show he had all five fingers on his right hand. It comes almost immediately following the title sequence when he's working on the console to try and rescue Franklin. If you watch the closeup shot of his hand working the console, you will see his hand has all five fingers.

There is also a scene in 'Relics' where you can plainly see it is missing. It is 22 minutes in, when he's in the holodeck of the old Enterprise and Captain Picard comes in and has a drink with him. It is clearly gone in that scene.

 

[Jeyl]

Doohan coulda lied and said he lost it in one of his famous temper bursts on set lol.

When the original series was released as season sets, it contained a new interview with Doohan just before he passed away. One of the sadder moments for me in trek fandom because you can almost tell that he treated this interview as his last by the way he sounded and how he comes clean about his missing finger, lifting his hand to show the camera. He was shot six times on D-Day at night by a fellow soldier who got nervous.

:confused

 

[Jedi2016]

Honestly, I never noticed it. I vaguely remember hearing about it before, but this is the first time I've seen it.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

He was shot six times on D-Day at night by a fellow soldier who got nervous.

:confused

Of all the heroes on the Enterprise he was a real life one. :thumbsup

 

[LMFAOSchwarz]

Of all the heroes on the Enterprise he was a real life one. :thumbsup

Double :thumbsup

 

[robn1]

While he did make attempts to hide it, not all were successful.

Catspaw
Star Trek V

This was the most obvious.

That Which Survives

 

[MooCriket]

Really cool list. Never knew about the Wheaton or Doohan info. Thanks!

 

[Jeyl]

Of all the heroes on the Enterprise he was a real life one. :thumbsup

And after the Enterprise.

 

[Michael Bergeron]

And after the Enterprise.

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