Star Trek Facts!!!

  1. Captain Kirk never said " Beam me up, Scotty" in the classic series or in any of the Star Trek movies. The actual command "Beam us up, Scotty" is from the 1970s Star Trek cartoon series.
  2. Remember Data's pet Spot, well in the early episodes of ST:TNG , "Data's Day" and "Phantasms," Spot is a male Somali cat, but by season seven's episode "Genesis" the feline is female - and pregnant!
  3. Sorry to disappoint fans, but contrary to myth, Kirk didn't actually romance every female alien he encountered. In the original episode "That Which Survives," he actually refused the advances of Losira.
  4. In the second movie, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," the evil Khan says he remembers Chekov from the classic series' first-season episode "Space Seed." But, Pavel Chekov didn't appear in Star Trek until the second season opener "Amok Time."
  5. Remember Morn, the all time favorite extra on Star Trek:DS9, well he was never intended to be a duplicate of  George Wendt's immortal character Norm Peterson from Cheers. According to insiders, the crew simply noted the similarities in demeanor between the two characters after the series had already begun, and suggested the name Morn (a spin of Norm) when the character needed a name for the episode "Progress."  He still hasn't spoken a word and perhaps the most loved background charater on DS9. He even has his own fan club -- Morn Watchers, c/o Tina Jafari, P.O. Box 630175, Houston, Texas USA 77263-0175.
  6. In ST: TNG, writers were actually gonna make the Borg destroy the Romulans. The TNG episode "The Neutral Zone", several Federation and Romulan outposts were destroyed by a mysterious race, which happened to be the Borg but was never said directly. In the second, they planned to have a Borg scout ship destroy the Romulan civilization but still not reveal it was the Borg. Unfortunatly none of this took place because of the writers strike, head writer left.
  7. In the ST: TNG, the first clifhanger, "Best of Both Worlds," it was designed to be a cliffhanger becasue of negotiations weren't going well between Patrick Steward and the studio. So they decided to write an episode where they would be able to kill of Picard if needed. In the first half, at the end Picard was captured by the Borg. If negotiations didn't go well and Patrick Steward wasn't gonna return, they would have killed off Picard, but luckly they reached a deal and Patrick Stewart stayed. That episode was also said to be the reason Star Trek became the Phenomon it is today.
  8. I think most people know this one, but the first interacial kiss on tv was on the original Star Trek, between Kirk & Uhura.
  9. It was recently brought to my attention, that Star Trek was the only tv show in history to become more popular after it was canceled.

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