5 Things You Might Not Know About Star Trek
5 Things You Might Not Know About Star Trek
There's a whole lot of Star Trek out there, so chances are you might not know a couple of these fun little facts.
There's a whole lot of Star Trek out there, so chances are you might not know a couple of these fun little facts.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best Star Trek film ever and one of the best science fiction films ever created. But aside from being the greatest Star Trek film, it also holds the distinction of being the first film to use fully textured CGI in an entire sequence.
Fun Fact: The studio that created the scene would later go on to become Pixar!
The legendary Stephen Hawking was a fan of the show and even appeared as himself in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. A famous story from the set is that when on a tour of the Enterprise sets, Hawking's was checking out engineering, motioned to the warp core reactor and said: "I'm working on that."
Eagle-eyed fans of Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space 9 and Voyager may have noticed that the number 47 pops up pretty often all over the place, usually on various lockers and equipment caches. This is an inside joke that came to be because of a maths professor a writer had who stated that all numbers will equal 47.
This one is a little tricky and lies mostly at the feet of Paramount. Initially J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, pitched the concept to Paramount of which they passed on. Straczynski would then make Babylon 5 anyways and Paramount executives probably remembered this when DS9 was pitched to some sometime later. The team behind DS9 were probably not even aware that Straczynski had pitched a similar concept.
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Kate Mulgrew leading the crew of Voyager back home, but Paramount didn't even consider her in the main running during final auditions. In fact, Paramount wasn't even sure a female captain would play well on TV, probably because TV execs are always out of touch and a generation behind. So the studio auditioned male actors and saw Nigel Havers as a good fit for the captain's chair if a female lead could not be found.