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What legal problems prevented T’Pau from being used in “Star Trek: Enterprise?”
While wandering through a Star Trek rabbit hole, I came across this tidbit on the Wikipedia page for T'Pol; bold emphasis is mine:
“Series producer Rick Berman said they originally intended that a ...
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Similarities between TOS "The Apple" and "Who Mourns for Adonais" phaser sequences
Something I didn't pick up on when watching the original airings, but noticed while watching re-runs a very long time ago:
At the climax of "Who Mourns for Adonais", Kirk orders the ship to ...
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Why are there Asian subtitles in some renderings of these shots?
In the Star Trek original series episode "The Naked Time", there is a short sequence in which Spock makes his way from the bridge to engineering, encountering a delirious crewman along the ...
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Salaries of Star Trek Guest Stars
What was the salary range of the guest stars on the original Star Trek series?
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Why do the new Star Trek series have so few episodes in each season?
Star Trek: Discovery has around 15 episodes in each season, and Picard is going to have only 10. But The Next Generation and Voyager had nearly 30 episodes in each season. Why don't they produce ...
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Why do these communicators from Star Trek differ?
In the picture below, the communicator's buttons and pattern in the center differ from each other. Was there any direct intent to make them look different from although still similar to each other? I ...
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In Star Trek, which planet was 'forcibly relocated' twice by the scriptwriters?
In one of the Star Trek nitpickers guides, Phil Farrand notes that there was a planet which was on the Federation side of a border with a hostile alien species. After a cease fire and neutral zone was ...
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Did Michelle Yeoh do her own stunts in this scene?
In episode 13, What's Past Is Prologue, Emperor Georgiou and Michael engage in hand-to-hand combat with Mirror Universe Lorca. Full video of the scene linked here. (warning, even the YouTube title of ...
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Which episodes of Star Trek TNG led to their writers becoming regular staff?
Most TV episodes, and it seems so for TNG too, are written by existing writing staff, or come from freelance screenplays whose writers rarely, if ever contribute to the show again. Occasionally an ...
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Why does Riker pronounce "charade" two different ways?
I learned this interesting fact from a comment on a YouTube video yesterday. In this scene from Future Imperfect, notice how Jonathan Frakes pronounces "charade" (at 1:55):
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Star Trek: Enterprise - Episode Carbon Creek, song ID
In the episode Carbon Creek of Star Trek: Enterprise, T'pol's great-grandmother T'Mir crash lands with several other Vulcans outside a town named Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania—hence the name of the ...
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Was ST:VOY watered down?
The premise of ST:VOY seems like it would introduce a whole new ethos and a whole new way of doing things for Star Trek. During the same time, you had DS9 being set mostly on a station hanging out at ...
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Is this story about how Michael Dorn became Worf true?
I once was told a story about how Michael Dorn auditioned for the role of Commander Worf on Star Trek. Instead of saying what the script he was given said, he tried to "act" like a Klingon would.
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What's the relationship between Blunt Talk and Star Trek?
The new Starz network show Blunt Talk marks Patrick Stewarts return to television.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that the pilot episode
and upon looking at Wikipedia to link this question ...
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Was Genesis intentionally designed this way? [adult question]
I think it's pretty clear in the images below what Genesis resembles (if not, perhaps you need some 'adult education' lessons and should leave this question now)...
and from the schematics in the ...
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