Questions tagged [star-trek]
A science-fiction franchise, comprising TV series, movies and other media created by Gene Roddenberry.
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What illness did Scotty have that was treated by Dr. McCoy?
Admiral Kirk arrives aboard the Enterprise for an inspection of the training crew. While inspecting the crew as they stand in line. He comes to Scotty and says the following.
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In Wrath of Khan, what is the meaning of "the word is given" in the scene where the crewman dies in sickbay?
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, there is a scene where Scotty arrives on the bridge with the fatally wounded body of a crewman. In the next scene, they are in sickbay (why he didn't just take him ...
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Why did Spock and McCoy lie about not watching Kirk's final message in "The Tholian Web?"
Something I've never been able to puzzle out an in-universe reason for....
In the course of the episode "The Tholian Web," Capt. Kirk disappears in an 'interphase' event, along with the ill-fated USS ...
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When was it first confirmed in canon that the wars that nearly destroyed the Vulcans was fought using high technology weapons?
In the original series (TOS) of Star Trek the audience is told that the Vulcans fought a series of devastating wars that almost destroyed their species, before embracing logic and pacifism.
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Was the Enterprise 1701-A ever severed from its nacelles?
So I bought a second (third-,... ,seventh?)-hand ArtAsylum Enterprise 1701-A (Wrath of Khan-ish), no battle damage, and I noticed that for some reason it is possible to remove the nacelles from the ...
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Was there cigarette smoking on "Star Trek (The Original Series)"?
I have seen every episode at least half a dozen times over the decades and I am pretty sure nobody smoked; not even some exotic alien hookah or something.
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How Does the Delta Flyer Get Repaired in Star Trek: Voyager Season 7?
In "Unimatrix Zero" (Season 6, Episode 26 and Season 7, Episode 27 of Star Trek: Voyager), one of Voyager's shuttles, the Delta Flyer, gets shot to pieces. But by the next episode (s7 ep2, "...
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Why did they *kill* Mr. Hengist in “Wolf in the Fold”?
In the season two episode of Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”, they discover that there is a non-corporeal entity that has been going around the galaxy committing murders for a very long time. During ...
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Was Tenavik hinting towards a solution to Michael's time navigation problem?
In Star Trek: Discovery S2E12, when Tenavik reads from 'The Pillar of the Present', "When the future becomes the past, the present will be unlocked.", was he somehow hinting towards what ...
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Did Star Trek: Picard casually add the notion of simultaneous Borg Queens?
Star Trek's Everything You Need to Know About the Borg Queen states "Only one Queen exists at any given time".
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How long are TV shows typically awaiting airing after completion, Star Trek: Picard in particular?
I'm watching Star Trek: Picard as it comes to air and have just seen a promo for it. The show is obviously presenting a story arc presumably spanning a whole season; judging by the pace of the two ...
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Why isn't "Star Trek: Picard" shot in wide-screen 16:9?
We watch Star Trek: Picard in our film room on a nice modern UHD TV. I just noticed there is a thick black bar top and bottom of screen implying it's shot in a wider, cinematic format.
Is this ...
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Why are there so many clocks on the bridge of the Enterprise in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?
In Star Trek VI, the bridge of the Enterprise prominently features digital clocks above the viewscreen and all over the bridge. Why?
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Is there any explanation for why the front/side screens on Star Trek ships show stars going much faster than the rated warp speeds?
In ST:TOS, we see stars slowly come from the front and move to the side as the crew looks forward in normal flight. Even this makes it look like their speed is at least several light years per minute. ...
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Why did the Borg ignore the rest of the Enterprise-D?
I understand why they kidnapped Picard, but why did the Borg ignore the rest of the Enterprise-D in the Star Trek TNG episode "The Best of Both Worlds"? Why not assimilate all on the ship? ...
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Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” if Chekov wasn’t in the episode “Space Seed?”
Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) if in the Star Trek TOS Chekov doesn’t appear in the episode “Space Seed?”
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Is there a time in Star Trek where "bypass the plasma/EPS" relays failed and caused damage to the ship?
I watched this video today by Cathode Ray Dude who made an analogy to real life battle shorts to the fictional plasma/EPS relays that are frequently "bypassed" in the Star Trek TV series as ...
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What happens to Wesley Crusher when he leaves with the Traveler?
In the television episode Journey's End of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher leaves the Enterprise, drops out of Star Fleet Academy and joins the Traveler. This is the last episode where ...
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How fast is the spore drive compared to other ships in the show?
I am trying to get my head around this as it doesn't make sense to me at the moment.
We are in 2256 and the Discovery is currently experimenting with a spore drive. During the show it is saying how ...
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How are Star Trek medical devices attached to the neck?
In Star Trek Voyager, it happens a few times that a medical device is attached to the neck. For example, in S03E02 "Flashback" at 8:28, the doctor attaches a device to Tuvok's neck. ...
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Did Star Trek: Picard get new writers for Season 2?
The tone, substance, and quality of the second season of Star Trek: Picard seem vastly different than season one. I understand that there are people out there who view this as an improvement, but my ...
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How did they do the Andorians' skin effects in Star Trek: Enterprise?
Most species of alien in Star Trek have some feature on their face that makes them visually distinct from humans, and it's usually very smooth-looking, because the actor is wearing a prosthetic made ...
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What is this trail of 'pixie dust' left when the Enterprise warps out?
I noticed that in Star Trek: Into Darkness when the Enterprise warps out it leaves a trail of what I can only describe as pixie dust. Previously the Enterprise left only a visual after image which ...
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If everyone uses replicator, why do tailors still exist?
In Star Trek, Starfleet uniforms and other clothing is made by replicator patterns. Not only does this suggest a standard pattern as well as standard sizing considering the variety of body types that ...
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How are Star Trek ship explosions produced?
I always wondered how older ship explosions in Star Trek were created. In Star Trek Generations, there's a Bird of Prey exploding (YouTube). It does not look like CGI but more like they blew up an ...
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Why is Seven of Nine called Seven of Nine?
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more than nine Borgs, and probably quite a few that have groups of nine entities.
Is there any in-universe description of how Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine gained ...
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What's the meaning behind Khan's firing on the Enterprise as it approaches the Mutara Nebula?
About 80% of the way down in the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan movie script,
[Reliant bridge]JOACHIM: If they go in there we'll lose them.KHAN: Explain it to them.[Enterprise bridge]SAAVIK: That ...
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Was the smoke in this scene accidental or a practical effect serving to depict something?
In the Star Trek: The Original Series(TOS) episode "Journey to Babel",
There were several shots of an "operating room" scene, in which McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is operating on Sarek. In at least a ...
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What happened to the knowledge of VGER?
In the first full length Star Trek movie The Motion Picture, Commander Decker assumes the role of The Creator and directly inputs the final code sequence so VGER can transmit its vast amount of ...
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Star Trek TOS reputed episode budgets
Back in the 1970s I read a book which explored numerous "behind the scenes" aspects of Star Trek. From what I recall, it contained a claim that it was the most expensive hour on TV at the time. I just ...
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Are multiple scenes filmed at the same time?
Are multiple scenes of shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine filmed at the same time?
For example while Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis and Gates McFadden are filming ...
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Why was Grace Lee Whitney so highly billed in Star Trek TOS?
Actress Grace Lee Whitney appeared in eight early episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series as Yeoman Janice Rand. The casts of these episodes (in the order that they are billed on-screen) are given ...
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What is the significance of different color uniforms in Star Trek reboot series?
What does the different color of uniform shirts signify in the Star Trek movies of the reboot series? In Star Trek Into Darkness Kirk orders Chekov to wear a Redshirt in place of a Yellow one to work ...
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Is this a real Star Trek episode?
In the Breaking Bad episode "Blood Money", there is a reference to an episode of Star Trek in which Chekhov is killed because his stomach is in space.
Is this a real episode of Star Trek?
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Why does deliberately causing a coolant leak in main engineering NOT result in catastrophic destruction of the ship?
In Star Trek: Generations, it was this very thing that destroyed the stardrive section of the Enterprise-D. As soon as LaForge recognized that a coolant leak had occurred, he evacuated Engineering ...
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Is there something special going on with "I've" in regard of Data's inability to use contractions?
I am confused about Data's use of ”I've”.
One of the first things that we learn about Data in TNG is that he cannot use contractions.
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Why did the original Star Trek change the Enterprise captain?
In the original pilot for Star Trek that aired in 1965, there is mostly different crew for the USS Enterprise which includes the captain being Christopher Pike. When NBC rejected the original pilot ...
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Why didn't Rios tell Picard he had been to the Vayt System on the ibn Majid?
When Rios talked to Rafi about what happened on the ibn Majid in Picard season 1, he said they had traveled way out to the Vayt system. Did he not realize what that meant when they agreed to take Soji ...
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Are there any indications why Roddenberry chose to make Star Trek a "battleship universe"?
Star Trek focuses on large, slow (in local space, anyway) ships which behave like battleships.
As a counter-example, Battlestar Galactica was in an "aircraft carrier universe", where the big ships ...
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First explicit mention of money in Star Trek
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, we have this exchange:
McCoy: It's a wonder these people ever made it out of the 20th Century.
Kirk: They're still using money. We've got to get some.
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Why didn't Theodore Bikel appear again as Worf's foster father?
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family", actor Theodore Bikel appeared as Worf's foster father, and actress Georgia Brown appeared as Worf's foster mother. Later in the series, in the ...
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Were the Borg originally their own race, before assimilation started?
Part of what makes the Star Trek TNG episode "I, Borg" so confusing for me is that the Borg in their first episode, "Q Who", seemed like their own species. Half robot, half biological entity race. ...
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Why was Kes ignored in Year of Hell?
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Before and After", Kes shifts backwards through time. Part of this time is spent during the "Year of Hell", during which she learns vital information about the ...
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Of all the shows "TNG" and later, why didn't "DS9" have any slow motion exterior video shots?
On TNG and Voyager, many of the exterior shots of the ships were done in slow motion video frame rates (for those who don't understand what I mean, the same rate as Curb Your Enthusiasm was until like ...
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Why did Gul Madred decide to torture Jean-Luc even when he was telling the truth?
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, while he was sedated, Jean-Luc told the truth - that he did not know the Federation's defense plans.
So why did Gul Madred decide to torture him anyway? Was it to ...
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How are conversations on in-scene display screens filmed?
Three instances spring to mind:
Star Trek conversations via the viewscreen
Red Dwarf crew interacting with Holly
A scene in the Doctor Who episode 'Blink' where the Doctor speaks from the television
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Are there any male actors written out of a "Star Trek" series?
I can only think of two main cast members who were written out of a Star Trek series. That includes Tasha Yar of ST:TNG, and Kes of Voyager who were both female.
Wesley Crusher's role in ST:TNG was ...
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Why does René refer to Picard as his nephew?
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Family, Captain Picard meets his nephew René when he visits his home on Earth. René says,
You're my nephew Jean-Luc.
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How could Voyager navigate inside the void in "Night"?
How could Voyager navigate inside the starless void? Especially since it was very large. Taking one year to cross. Some sort of inertial navigation maybe?
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Is this sequence in "Star Trek" (2009) a reference to a Hoth sequence from "The Empire Strikes Back"?
In the Kelvenverse timeline, which begins in Star Trek (2009), there is a sequence where alter-Spock attempts to rid himself and the Enterprise crew of alter-James T. Kirk, after getting off to a ...
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