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--- Quote from: LTK on 11 May 2009, 12:03 ---Now you did get me interested about those things. :P I was wondering what happened to that slug after they saved him. What was it about the wheelchair, then?

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I went with some Star Trek fans, so I had that explained to me afterward:

When Pike showed up in the original series, he was apparently crippled and confined to a kind of wheelchair like thing. If you've ever watched the Futurama episode concerning Star Trek, the thingy Fry is in that speaks only in beeps and boops was an apparent reference to it.

Ozymandias:
Yep. Pike was the original captain of the Enterprise NCC-1701 but was horribly crippled, forcing him to be placed in a big, weird, robotic wheelchair thing.

The slug was a reference to Wrath of Khan; Khan used the exact same thing on Sulu to bring Kirk to him.

Uhura's first name was a reference to the fact that for the last 40 years, Uhura never officially had a first name. Nichelle Nichols eventually made one up(the one used in the move- Nyota) and it was adopted by books written by fans and such, but was never officially made canon until this movie.

Other random references:

Delta Vega, the planet Spock marooned Kirk on, was a planet in the Original Series that Kirk marooned a friend on(at Spock's suggestion), because he was mutating into a super-powerful psionic being. It's worth noting thatthey moved the planet from the edge of the galaxy to near Vulcan, just to suit the purposes of the story and still make the reference.

The Kobayashi Maru test was also a plot point in Wrath of Khan, as it opens with new cadets taking the same test, then Kirk recounting how he "beat" it. (Also, while he's talking about it in Wrath of Khan, he's munching an apple, much the same way he is doing in this movie while actually doing the test).

The redshirt reference was obvious and hilarious.

The backstory between Spock and Nero is actually mired really deep in continuity and is worth reading in the form of Star Trek: Countdown(a comic book miniseries) if you can acquire it.

Tom:
For those not in America or Canada with no real major fan history, you're probably better off downloading that miniseries:


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Once downloaded, you need to unpack the archive using winRAR or something similar. To read the .cbr/.cbz files you'll need CDisplay.

Ozymandias:
Which is why I used the nebulous verb of "acquire"

no one special:

--- Quote from: no one special on 11 May 2009, 02:50 ---Maybe what I'm missing is that it was great for non-Trekkers, but it was just that much better for the Trekkers who caught all the little winks and Easter eggs.

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So my second supposition was correct.  Glad to hear it.  What really made it make sense to me was when Alex C mentioned LOTR.  I'd never read a single one of those books, but I enjoyed the movies.  I still say there's no way they keep Helms Deep.  Just saying. 

Also, my other favorite wink:

Kirk: "What special combat training do you have?"
Sulu: "Fencing."

 :-)

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