| 1 | Homages to non-Star Trek movie |
| Posted on Monday June 1, 2009, 15:45 by nhs76 |
On the planet, the one menacing alien swooping down to munch the other at the last minute looked an awful lot like the T. Rex munching the velociraptor in Jurassic Park. Read More
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| Posted on Monday June 1, 2009, 15:42 by nhs76 |
Chekov's frantic running through the ship to get to the transporter -- "I can do this! I can do this" -- is reminiscent of his frantic run through the Bay area in ST IV, set to Russian classical music. Read More
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| 3 | There be whales here! |
| Posted on Monday June 1, 2009, 15:40 by nhs76 |
Scotty beaming himself by mistake into the water pipe could be a winking nod to his successful efforts in ST IV to beam whales aboard the ship. Read More
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| 4 | In Jokes? |
| Posted on Thursday May 28, 2009, 13:58 by hoover boy |
I think a lot of people seem to be confusing in-jokes with continuety references. Of course the uniforms and insignia are the same and I think many people would be pissed off if Chris Pine's Kirk didn't sit the way Shatner did! Read More
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| 5 | Spock adjusting his top |
| Posted on Thursday May 21, 2009, 08:17 by The Bantam Menace |
One of the more stand out "in-jokes" for me was the way Zachary Quinto pulled down the bottom of his tunic when he stood up to give evidence against Kirk. Nimoy did it all the time - most pointedly at the end of Wrath Of Khan in the radiation chamber - and Quinto nailed it so perfectly, it made me grin. Read More
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| Posted on Monday May 18, 2009, 10:09 by spark1 |
spock does a 'picard manuever'' when he stands to give evidence against kirk. Read More
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| Posted on Monday May 18, 2009, 10:08 by mp1701a |
"ORIGINAL: Evil_Monkey25
At the end of the film (SPOILER WARNING) when Kirk relieves Captain Pike, he is seemingly left sitting in a wheel chair, a reference to the TOS episode The Menagerie in which the disabled Pike appears.
Also, Pike was wearing an almost identical uniform to those worn by the crew in Star Trek The Motion Picture."
Well, not by the crew. Specifically, Pike was wearing an identical uniform that Shatner wore at the beginning of ST:TMP. Or almost identical, as this one appeared to be actually made of cloth. Also, for Bruce Greenwood's sake, I hope they the "design flaw" of those late 70s Starfleet costumes were fixed. To use different words from Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories book, let's just say that when those Starfleet costumes were made, they were not designed to accomodate a penis and testicles. So when someone sat, let the crushing begin . . .
When Pike shakes hands, I believe you get a close-up of the same insigniaRead More
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| Posted on Sunday May 17, 2009, 22:28 by iain99 |
Few more really geeky ones: Kirk's supposed birthplace, Riverside, Iowa finally gets a mention, 1 of the admirals at Kirk's hearing is Admiral Komack from the original series, McCoy's reason for joining Starleet (driven to it by a bitter divorce) was part of his backstory in the TOS writers bible, but was never mentioned in the series. Read More
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| 9 | Couple more |
| Posted on Sunday May 17, 2009, 20:29 by iain99 |
How about Spock stranding Kirk on Delta Vega, the same planet from "Where no man has gone before" And if you stay until the end of the credits there's TOS bridge beepy noises!
Pike in the wheelchair was my favourite in-joke though Read More
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| 10 | Spock's lie |
| Posted on Sunday May 17, 2009, 00:36 by selivia |
When Spock-now meets Spock-future at the end and questions that he 'lied' to Kirk is reminiscent of the series when Spock 'lied' about the expected repair time to give Kirk a surprise advantage, when questioned then he had admitted to exagerating the truth. Read More
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| 11 | A Shuttle Called Gillian |
| Posted on Sunday May 17, 2009, 00:04 by darkspringxl |
I happened to notice a shuttle called 'Gillian', a possible reference to Dr Gillian Taylor, Humpback Whale specialist, as featured in Star Trek Iv: The Voyage Home......... Read More
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| 12 | Yes, yes, but... |
| Posted on Saturday May 16, 2009, 17:41 by andyoliver99 |
...It still doesn't answer this question: Why are key members of the crew (ie chief engineer, first officer, captain, for god's sake) sent on the most dangerous away missions? Surely there would be the equivalent of a Marine corps in Star fleet? me not understand, I'm a talkbacker not a military strategist, damnit! Read More
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| 13 | Red matter mcguffin |
| Posted on Saturday May 16, 2009, 01:33 by Glennp |
Has anyone here commented on the big ball of red matter? It is basically the same mcguffin which JJ Abrams also uses in Alias and must be an intentional reference, don't you think?
Spock's line about whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth, is from Star Trek VI. He says it in that movie to deduce the presence of a cloaked Bird of Prey.
The gun-ho red shirt who lasted 30 seconds was definitely my favourite bit of this new movie.
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| 14 | One you forgot |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 23:19 by Dismas |
In the latter part of the film, Kirk orders Scotty to do something, with the engineer replying "I cannae do it, Cap'n", which of course echoes the famed "I cannae do it cap'n, we have nae got the poo-wer!" line :D Read More
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| 15 | Vulcan testing and |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 22:00 by dave1159 |
Loved all the nods to the original series and films, surely when Kirk and Macoy first see the Enterprise in Space, it's like the classic `beauty' shot from ST 1 TMP reveling the refitted ship and what about when we see Spock as a child doing the same sort of computer memory test that his older self takes in ST 4, the `How do you feel' moment Read More
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| 16 | Vulcan testing and |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 21:47 by dave1159 |
Loved all the nods to the original series and films, surely when Kirk and Macoy first see the Enterprise in Space, it's like the classic `beauty' shot from ST 1 TMP reveling the refitted ship and what about when we see Spock as a child doing the same sort of computer memory test that his older self takes in ST 4, the `How do you feel' moment Read More
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| 17 | Spock repeats his lines from ST 6 |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 20:12 by MIKETHEBIKE2006 |
Lets not forget Spock saying "When you have eliminated the probable what you have left, however improbable must be the solution" L Nimoy originally said this in ST 6 and credited one of his ancestors with the saying - which is interesting bearing in mind it was one of Sherlock Holmes' utterances! A top film and the references didn't get in the way and were subtle enough not to annoy those not "in the know". Great article by the way. Read More
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| 18 | Spock repeats his lines from ST 6 |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 19:45 by MIKETHEBIKE2006 |
Lets not forget Spock saying "When you have eliminated the probable what you have left, however improbable must be the solution" L Nimoy originally said this in ST 6 and credited one of his ancestors with the saying - which is interesting bearing in mind it was one of Sherlock Holmes' utterances! A top film and the references didn't get in the way and were subtle enough not to annoy those not "in the know". Great article by the way. Read More
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| 19 | Spock repeats his lines from ST 6 |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 19:41 by MIKETHEBIKE2006 |
Lets not forget Spock saying "When you have eliminated the probable what you have left, however improbable must be the solution" L Nimoy originally said this in ST 6 and credited one of his ancestors with the saying - which is interesting bearing in mind it was one of Sherlock Holmes' utterances! A top film and the references didn't get in the way and were subtle enough not to annoy those not "in the know". Great article by the way. Read More
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| 20 | Spock repeats his lines from ST 6 |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 19:40 by MIKETHEBIKE2006 |
Lets not forget Spock saying "When you have eliminated the probable what you have left, however improbable must be the solution" L Nimoy originally said this in ST 6 and credited one of his ancestors with the saying - which is interesting bearing in mind it was one of Sherlock Holmes' utterances! A top film and the references didn't get in the way and were subtle enough not to annoy those not "in the know". Great article by the way. Read More
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| 21 | RE: RE: |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 19:07 by captainrentboy |
L: pablohoolio
L: Dr Quinzel
Was I imagining things or did Chris Pine chuck in a cheeky reference to Shatner's famous speech patterns when Kirk was being purposefully infuriating during the Kobayashi Maru test? That made me smile.
pot on, I noticed it too.
I spotted that toone of the die hard trekkies that came with me picked up on it.
I'm not even a huge fan of Star Trek and I could tell it was a bit of a piss take of Shatner. Read More
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| 22 | RE: Lost reference |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 14:36 by homerbert |
Was it just me, or was the whistle that Pike used in the bar the same as the oooo-weee--oooo sound effect they used in the old series? Possible for transmissions or something.
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| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 14:30 by moneymouth77 |
Good collection of <a href="http://movies.sky.com/movie/star-trek"& gt;Star Trek</a> references, although I do agree with the below, you missed the 'Picard Manoeuvre'. Read More
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| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 13:45 by raymondbros |
Well on number 13 they forgot to mention that it was scripted for the first interracial kiss to happen between Spock and Uhura but Shatner got jealous and made them change it to him Read More
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| 25 | . |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 13:33 by bradthunder |
I thought the big red monster on the snow planet looked a bit Cloverfieldy-ish Read More
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| 26 | Stuff that I expected and didn't get: |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 12:44 by pussy_galore |
I was expecting a Riker 'ALL HANDS BRACE FOR IMPACT' at the beginning, and a Scotty 'I just don't have the power Capitan' near the end (something I actually said and had my boyfriend telling me to shut up, he did that a lot in the film) but maybe that would have been to much! Read More
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| 27 | RE: Here's a Nerdy Sad One |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 11:18 by fierce-hairdo |
L: wombathog
Spock performs 'The Picard Manoeuvre' at Kirk's hearing. I won't go into details cuz that would just be a bit too sad.
ep, I spotted that one too. Read More
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| 28 | Here's a Nerdy Sad One |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 09:38 by wombathog |
Spock performs 'The Picard Manoeuvre' at Kirk's hearing. I won't go into details cuz that would just be a bit too sad. Read More
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| 29 | Star Wars in joke? |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 09:33 by fierce-hairdo |
The scene where Kirk tells Sulu to "Punch it!" (ie go to warp speed) and then the Enterprise fails to move, is very reminiscent of various scenes in the Star Wars franchise, in particular, the scene in Empire Strikes Back when Lando tells Chewie to "Punch it!" and the Millennium Falcon fails to go to light speed. Maybe Abrams was pointing out how he has kind of Star Wars-ised the Star Trek franchise... or maybe I'm imagining things.... Read More
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| 30 | RE: Lost reference |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 00:35 by Oli Monkey |
Before anyone watches it 10 times and searches for hours, can't find them and wants to kill me with sticks "I'm chatting rubbish". Just a joke. They're not there. But they are tattooed on one of the Romulan guards, probably Read More
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| 31 | Lost reference |
| Posted on Friday May 15, 2009, 00:23 by Oli Monkey |
On the panel at the bottom of the Red Matter machine did anyone spot the numbers?
4 8 15 16 23 42 Big reference to J.J. Abrams Lost. Read More
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| 32 | RE: |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 22:26 by pablohoolio |
L: Dr Quinzel
Was I imagining things or did Chris Pine chuck in a cheeky reference to Shatner's famous speech patterns when Kirk was being purposefully infuriating during the Kobayashi Maru test? That made me smile.
pot on, I noticed it too. Read More
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| 33 | Shatner impression! |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 22:14 by pablohoolio |
Ok, not strictly a 'reference' but Chris Pine did his very best Shatner impression / tribute in Kobayashi Maru test he was undergoing near the start. As he turns in the chair (and is sat EXACTLY like Shatner used to sit) he says something like 'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII think... we should......' etc etc. It was almost a Jim Carrey impression of Kirk! Like so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKoKOhrLfg
Th ought it was a great little nod to Shatner, even if it was almost parody. Read More
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| 34 | Tonight I'm gonna Party like it's... |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 20:45 by JediBobster |
1999? That article is from 1999?! Closer to reality than we may think? It's already 10 yrs away from our reality now.
JEDI BOBSTER Read More
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| 35 | Animated series |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 19:57 by terriblecnut |
The alien navigator on board the Kelvin is the same species as the navigator on board the enterprise in the animated series. Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 19:42 by durelius |
Worth watching again for the ones I missed there some very subtle clever ones here, I wouldn't get them all not being a huge Treky, red suit guy made me smile. Read More
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| 37 | Even more nuggets.... |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 18:25 by herbertwest1701 |
* Spock's mention of Kolinahr - the discipline of purging emotions was introduced in ST: The Motion Picture
* The school exams on Vulcan are of a style featured in ST 4: The Voyage Home
* Spock's Holmesian line about eliminating the improbable featured in ST 6: The Undiscovered Country
* Uhura ordering a Cardassian sunrise... Cardassians were introduced in TNG and featured heavily in ST: DS9
* May not be a reference, but Kirk banging his head on a beam is similar to Scotty banging his head in Star Trek 5. Read More
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| 38 | correction |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 18:07 by 7eke |
when mcCoy says "i kinda like him" it was a counter to kirk saying "who is that pointy eared bastard" Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 17:51 by Michael Cobrador |
Two more in-jokes that were missed; during the free fall to Vulcan when Kirk's chute broke off, he contacts the ship for beam up saying "Kirk to Enterprise", cool! Another (very subtle) one is Chekhov reacting to a situation (on the bridge) and saying "aye aye aye and shaking his head". Read More
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| 40 | RE: RE: |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 15:45 by general_potatoface |
When old Spock met young Kirk he said his dying words from the Wrath of Khan:
"I have been, and always will be, your friend" Read More
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| 41 | RE: |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 15:29 by HIM |
L: deathbat6661
What about the use of Sabotage by the Beastie Boys as an homage to Shatner's inability to say the word?
abo-taj!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cIEiutWTY
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| 42 | RE: |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 14:25 by Peppermint |
There was also the one where Kirk bangs his head on that beam that says 'Low Clearance' Read More
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| 43 | RE: Trek In-Jokes |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 13:24 by Timon |
Oooh and the whole Chekhov not being able to pronounce 'V's' - nuclear wessels!
And the 'bridge noises'!
Also, weren't some of the drinks ordered in the bar from Cardassia?
Clearly there were more in-jokes than we thought... Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 13:23 by swedishblue |
Let's not forget the vulcan nerve pinch! Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 13:11 by Timon |
Yeah, Vasquez Rocks in California where famously the Gorn fight was filmed stood in for Vulcan.
Also, during the battle scene, McCoy calls out for "Nurse Chapel" another Enterprise stalward.
Also, Admiral Kormack's office is seen whick references another admiral seen in the TOS
USS Faraggut is mentioned... and destroyed, that was one of Kirk's early postings as a cadet in TOS. Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 13:06 by deathbat6661 |
What about the use of Sabotage by the Beastie Boys as an homage to Shatner's inability to say the word? Read More
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| 47 | Nero shot first |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:58 by granny |
How about a feature on all the Star Wars 'homages'? Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:50 by yossarian426 |
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What about Vasquez Rocks? The location has been used numerous times as an exterior throughout Star Trek's history. Abrams appears to have used the profile of the famous promentary to create the surface of Vulcan. My friend also noticed there are echoes of the cliff shape in other shots, such as when Kirk meets the future/parallel universe Spock in the ice cave. Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:50 by yossarian426 |
(SPOILER WARNING)
What about Vasquez Rocks? The location has been used numerous times as an exterior throughout Star Trek's history. Abrams appears to have used the profile of the famous promentary to create the surface of Vulcan. My friend also noticed there are echoes of the cliff shape in other shots, such as when Kirk meets the future/parallel universe Spock in the ice cave. Read More
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| 50 | I love Star Trek |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:44 by Oli Monkey |
Watched it yesterday with my wife and she was crying in the first 5 minutes (i had something in my eye) not many films do that, let alone Star Trek. Great, great film. As soon as the guy in the RED jump/space suit turned up we both whispered "he's dead". Loved it Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:28 by neilreturns |
Pike in a wheelchair at the end is surely a nod. Read More
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| 52 | RE: |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:19 by HIM |
L: Evil_Monkey25
At the end of the film (SPOILER WARNING) when Kirk relieves Captain Pike, he is seemingly left sitting in a wheel chair, a reference to the TOS episode The Menagerie in which the disabled Pike appears.
lso, Pike was wearing an almost identical uniform to those worn by the crew in Star Trek The Motion Picture.
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:11 by Dr Quinzel |
Was I imagining things or did Chris Pine chuck in a cheeky reference to Shatner's famous speech patterns when Kirk was being purposefully infuriating during the Kobayashi Maru test? That made me smile. Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:06 by Evil_Monkey25 |
I missed the Admiral Archer's Beagle comment, but mainly cos Enterprise was a steaming pile of boring old poo....
At the end of the film (SPOILER WARNING) when Kirk relieves Captain Pike, he is seemingly left sitting in a wheel chair, a reference to the TOS episode The Menagerie in which the disabled Pike appears. Read More
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| 55 | Apple |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 12:06 by MStay |
You missed the apple during the Kobayashi Maru test. Kirk was also munching one when boasting about it Wrath of Khan... nice touch Read More
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| 56 | Kirk's dad |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 11:47 by HIM |
Kirk's dad is called George, not Gordon! Read More
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| 57 | Kirk's dad |
| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 11:38 by HIM |
Kirk's dad is called George, not Gordon! Read More
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| Posted on Thursday May 14, 2009, 11:37 by SenorGrande |
Shouldn't Scotty's "I'm giving her all she's got Captain!" be on here too? Read More
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