Movie: Star Trek

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It was a fun movie. [rant size="mini"] Will we ever, ever, ever have some form of Star Trek that isn't all about time travel and messing up history/creating alternate universes? Voyager and Enterprise and some of the later movies did that stuff TO DEATH.[/rant]

Karl Urban's McCoy was AMAZING, definitely my favorite re-enactor. (Good thing it's an alternate universe, though - we know from "Ultimate Computer" that McCoy did not attend Starfleet Academy.)

I liked Spock quoting Sherlock Holmes, and one of the shuttles being named Gilliam, and I'm ashamed to admit I laughed when Chekov's extreme accent made it hard for the computer to recognize his voice authorization code.

Part of the fun was watching for all the references to earlier forms of ST. That was also speed-bumpy, but it's not like I was all wrapped up in the story, anyway. There are probably already better lists out there, but I'm gonna make my own, anyway. I've probably forgotten a few of the ones I spotted at the time, but maybe they'll come back to me. [ETA I remembered two things about the animated series this morning (5/29)!] I promise, though, the only thing I've actually looked up is the title of "Relics." (Yes. I am a huge dork. Don't act surprised.)

The Animated Series

"Yesteryear"
The scenes from Spock's childhood on Vulcan incorporate a lot of ideas and dialogue from this episode. The animated bullies shouted, "Earther! Your father brought shame to Vulcan by marrying a human!" (They didn't say "whore," but hey, it was a Saturday morning cartoon.) Young Spock's consideration of whether to choose a human or Vulcan path for his life was echoed in the movie in almost the same words as in the cartoon. It's also the source of Sarek's speech about how Vulcans do have emotion, but in the cartoon that speech was given to the adult Spock.

"Joanna" [ETA "Joanna" was the original name of "The Way to Eden," not the name of the animated episode that mentions her. *scratches head* She's mentioned in the episode where McCoy gets to meet someone who saved a planet from a plague, a planet where Joanna was going to school. It might have the word "Albatross" in the title.]

McCoy's divorce was in the original show's bible and IIRC was supposed to be mentioned in "The Way to Eden," but they dropped the idea of having his daughter Joanna as one of the space hippies, substituting Chekov's old girlfriend Irina Galliulin. Joanna and the divorce are mentioned in the animated series. (Only the divorce made it into the new movie.)

[ETA: "B.E.M." is the episode that first establishes Kirk's middle name as Tiberius.]

The Original Series
There's an early episode - can't remember which one - when Uhura tries to coax Spock to sweet-talk her. "Why don't you say I'm a beautiful young lady and you'd like to take me for a walk in the moonlight?" Baffled, Spock replies, "Lieutenant, Vulcan has no moon." IIRC, she harrumphs back to her station. That's what the Uhura/Spock in the movie reminded me of.

I also forget in which TOS episode McCoy says "Suffering is good for the soul," although I think it's in "The Corbomite Maneuver" when he denies ever having said it. "I'm a doctor, not a..." occurs in several eps, as does his distrust of the transporter (generalized in the movie to space travel in general; his little rant on the shuttle makes me wonder if the movie writers had heard Leslie Fish's classic filk "Bones").

"The Cage" gives us Captain Pike, who winds up (in "Menagerie") in a wheelchair.

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" gives us Delta-Vega, the desolate planet with the lithium-cracking station, where the captain of the Enterprise tries to strand an uppity first officer.

"The Naked Time" - we learn that Sulu is a fencing aficionado.

"Operation--Annihilate!" Kirk's brother's name is George Samuel and Kirk calls him "Sam," which makes perfect sense if their father's name is George. (I was wondering if it was his brother's car that Jim took for a ride, but I'm told the credits say "stepfather," not "older brother.")

"Galileo 7" - jettisoning the fuel and igniting it to get out of a no-win situation.

"I, Mudd" - McCoy injects someone (Harry Mudd) with a drug to make him *look* sick in an attempt to get him onto the Enterprise.

"Amok Time" - McCoy injects Kirk with a drug to make him look dead to get him onto the Enterprise.

"This Side of Paradise" - Kirk must anger Spock and does so by insulting his mother; once angered, Spock whomps on Kirk pretty badly before coming to his senses.

"Journey to Babel" - Sarek's declaration in Sickbay that he married Amanda because it was "the logical thing to do" is echoed in the scene on Vulcan with young Spock.

"Who Mourns for Adonais?" "How old are you, Ensign Chekov?" "Twenty-two, sir."

"The Enterprise Incident" - McCoy lies about Kirk's medical condition to get him onto the Enterprise.

Somewhere in Next Gen, Ambassador Spock does a mind-meld with Picard - isn't it to give him a huge data-dump, as Spock did for Kirk in the new movie?

Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
Spock's decision to enter the Kohl-i-nahr (Sp? I always mix it up with that diamond) depicted in STI is also mentioned in the new movie.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The icky things from Ceta Alpha 4 that make you tell the truth were obviously related to Nero's icky things from "Centauri" that did the same thing. (Or as it was said after seeing STII: "Not now, Chekov, I have an earache!")

Kirk's cheating on the Kobiyashi Maru is canonical from STII. Kirk is eating an apple when he says, "I don't like to lose," in STII (and at the end of the Kob. Maru in the new movie).

Defeating an enemy by remotely lowering his shields was also a trick from STII.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
No one really invented transparent aluminum - or transwarp beaming.

A twofer! Enterprise and Star Trek: TNG "Relics"
Scotty mentions that "Admiral Archer" didn't take kindly to his beagle being subjected to a transporter experiment - it sounds as if poor Porthos is still suspended in transport - as Scotty was!