Star Trek in-jokes/continuity (Spoiler Alert)

[Chespirito]

Like the end of the universe?..and the begining of the next? or why we fail to comprehend Alpha and Omega?

[BaltimoreLauren]

[Chespirito]

BaltimoreLauren,

 

What was the best part about it..haven't seen it...

[Hello-migration]

As they are about to plunge into battle, Kirk asks Sulu. "What kind of combat training do you have?' (or something like that.) and Sulu replies, "Fencing."

 

I haven't seen the movie, yet.

[Bosco685]

50 years ago, in movies, you had white actors painted in red faces, riding a horse, and saying: "How..white man..what you looking for?"

Ugh, Chespirito kemosabe right in his thinking.

[Stromm]

Things or "tributes" I saw

Sulu Fencing, Willy Wonka Scotty getting flushed, Yoda/Jawas Scottys friend, the Beagle from Enterprise Scottys first trans warp transport, ST V, I havented invented it yet, transparent alumnium/trans warp transport, I'm a doctor Jim, green women, red shirt= death, Pavels accent, star wars = hitting his head, wheelchair, I am sure there are many more.

All in all I enjoyed it and hope they make another, ot better yet another series

[JazzMan]

Ah, did anyone notice the tribble in the birdcage on Scotty's desk?

 

Captain Pike as the original captain of the Enterprise, from the original pilot "The Cage". And Captain Pike in the wheelchair, but not as badly injured as in the episode "The Menagerie".

 

Also, the famous catch phrases...Damit, Jim I'm a doctor not a physicist....Fascinating....I'm givin' it all she's got, Captain...

[marvelcollector]

Yikes!!!...how could I forget the best original series continuity element?!?!?!... the thing that set Kirk apart from everybody at Star Fleet...

 

The Kobeashi Moeuru (sp?)....

 

That whole thing was dreamed up for STAR TREK 2, it was never in the original series...

 

Ah, yes...the gospel reality of the original series.

[Chespirito]

Ah, did anyone notice the tribble in the birdcage on Scotty's desk?

 

Captain Pike as the original captain of the Enterprise, from the original pilot "The Cage". And Captain Pike in the wheelchair, but not as badly injured as in the episode "The Menagerie".

 

Also, the famous catch phrases...Damit, Jim I'm a doctor not a physicist....Fascinating....I'm givin' it all she's got, Captain...

 

I actually dug those, I will enjoy seeing them...

[Chespirito]

50 years ago, in movies, you had white actors painted in red faces, riding a horse, and saying: "How..white man..what you looking for?"

Ugh, Chespirito kemosabe right in his thinking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Goddard, of the Smithsonian Institution, was reported as believing that Kemo Sabe was from the Tewa dialect. He supported his contention by calling on the "Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians" which appeared in the 29th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916). It seems that in Tewa, "Apache" equates to Sabe and "friend" to Kema.

 

Jim Jewell, who directed "The Lone Ranger" until 1938 said he'd lifted the term from the name of a boys' camp at Mullet Lake just south of Mackinac, Michigan called Kamp Kee-Mo Sah-Bee. The camp had been established in 1911 by Jewell's father-in-law, Charles Yeager, and operated until about 1940. Translation of kee-mo sah-bee, according to Jewell was "trusty scout."

 

A scholar from the University of California at Berkley thought that Kemo Sabe came from the Yavapai, a dialect spoken in Arizona and meant "one who is white," since the Ranger always wore a white shirt and trousers in the earliest publicity photos. The Yavapai term is "kinmasaba" or "kinmasabeh."

 

According to Rob Malouf, a grad student in linguistics at Stanford, there's another possibility: "According to John Nichols' Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe, the Ojibwe word `giimoozaabi' means `to peek' (it could also mean `he peeks' or `he who peeks'). Rob continued: "There are several words with the same prefix ["giimooj," secretly] meaning things like `to sneak up on someone'.... It is quite plausible that `giimoozaabi' means something like `scout'.... `Giimoozaabi' is pronounced pretty much the same as `kemosabe' and would have been spelled `Kee Moh Sah Bee' at the turn of the century."

 

In his book of humour and observation, noted columnist James Smart observes that the New York Public Library defines "Kemo Sabe" as Soggy Shrub. His entertaining collection is appropriately titled "Soggy Shrub Rides Again and other improbabilities."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BaltimoreLauren]

BaltimoreLauren,

 

What was the best part about it..haven't seen it...

 

The best part? Besides the amazing casting, easy to follow plot, and believable CGI? I couldn't really tell you, I loved it all so much!

 

My boyfriend, on the other hand, is utterly ashamed at how much of a nerd I am. He enjoyed the movie, but he didn't get any of the jokes, ect.

[cujobyte]

My girlfriend and I went to see it tonight and it was so fun!! Thank you Mr. J.J.Abrams for taking the reigns and helming this great ship, and giving us back Star Trek.

 

 

[Chespirito]

I will see it this next weekend, when it makes it to my military post...

 

Babysitter: Check

Contraband Chicken: Check

Contraband RC Cola: . . Check

Large appetite for the extra large Pop-Corn: . . Check

An extra ticket for my wife: . . Check

2008 San Diego Comicon shirt Check

All set...let the good times roll....................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Theagenes]

My wife and I saw it last night and we both loved it! I thought is was a very clever way of doing a reboot that isn't really a reboot with the new timeline. I caught most of the easter eggs and tributes that have been mentioned, but I missed the tribble. I definately need to see it again.

 

One possible reference that I'm not sure about - when Spock calls sickbay and asks for Dr. something-or-other, the chief medical officer, and McCoy says that he was on deck six and was killed, was this a reference to the Dr. in "The Cage"? I looked it up, and that was "Dr. Boyce" but I can't remember if this was name Spock used.

[SolitaireOne]

One question I had was who was the kid young Kirk passed on the road while driving his step-dad's car?

Didn't see it yet but all I want to know is if Finnegan is in this movie!

Hmmm...

[Theagenes]

One question I had was who was the kid young Kirk passed on the road while driving his step-dad's car?

Didn't see it yet but all I want to know is if Finnegan is in this movie!

Hmmm...

 

There was also Gary Mitchell from "Where No Man has Gone Before" who was supposed to be Kirk's best friend at the Academy IIRC. I suppose things are differnet in this new timeline.

[MedicAR]

My wife and I both loved it! Lots of good high quality summer movie fun! I really liked the reboot that allows for a whole new continuity and how it was even mentioned in the movie that things are different in this "new" reality.

 

Is it just me, or does J.J. Abrams have a thing for time travel?

[bronze_rules]

Remember when scotty and team travel to the past and need a whale tank, so scotty hints to the inventor about how to engineer the materials? Well, now, it is spock who hints to a younger scotty how to utilize his own yet to exist equation on time warp travel.

 

Old Spock tells young kirk, "Jim, I am and always have been your friend." famous dying words from Spock to Kirk.

 

 

 

[Fireboy]

from a star trek wiki

 

References to previous episodes and films

 

* The tests the young Spock takes are a reference to the tests Spock in the original timeline took in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home before he took off to Earth.

* The Kobayashi Maru test was also taken by Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The newer film reveals how Kirk cheats on the test in this alternate reality. It is also revealed that Spock was the one who designed the test for the past few years.

* Hikaru Sulu reveals that his advanced combat training is in fencing. Sulu is seen fencing in TOS: "The Naked Time".

* 47 makes two appearances, as the sector the Riverside Shipyards are in and the number of Klingon ships destroyed in a battle with the Narada.

* When Kirk and McCoy first see the Enterprise in space the scene resembles the scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture when the Enterprise refit is shown for the first time.

* Chekov's difficulty in pronouncing the letter V through his accent ("Victor Victor") is an allusion to the scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where he has difficulty pronouncing "nuclear vessels."

* The sequence where Nero forces the creature down Captain Pike's throat is almost the same as the Ceti Eel sequence from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, even including similar dialogue.

* After Spock maroons Kirk on Delta Vega, an incredulous McCoy asks him, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" The original universe's McCoy used the same line on Spock in The Original Series as well as prior to his self-sacrifice in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

* At one point in the discussion on the bridge Spock says "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth." referencing a line from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country almost exactly. The remark ultimately derives from the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which Data also referenced in TNG: "Data's Day"

* Even though Delta Vega shares a name with Delta Vega from TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" it is in no way the same planet, as the two are in completely different sectors of space.

* Spock Prime tells Kirk "I have been, and always shall be, your friend.", which is what he said to an older Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

* On Delta Vega, Montgomery Scott mentions that he had used "Admiral Archer's prized beagle" to test his long-distance transporter theories, though the beagle had yet to turn up as of his meeting with Kirk and Spock Prime (which he speculated led to his "exile"). Writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have confirmed that this line was a reference to Star Trek: Enterprise.[168] Jonathan Archer would've been 140 years old at the time of Scotty's exile, but humans are long-lived in Star Trek, and even if he had passed away, Starfleet service tends to be a family tradition. The beagle can't possibly be Porthos, who would have to be 108 (human) years old at the time, but the reference is obvious.

* When the younger Spock approaches the pilot's seat in the Jellyfish, the location's design is that of the IDIC, a symbol of the Vulcan people. Also, in reaction to the ship's controls, Spock says "Fascinating..."

* At the end of the film, Admiral Christopher Pike is in a wheelchair. This is a reference to Fleet Captain Commodore Christopher Pike from the original timeline who was crippled by delta radiation when a baffle plate had ruptured and then confined to an advanced wheelchair. The Admiral's uniform worn by Pike is similar to that worn by Admiral James T. Kirk in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")

* Spock Prime (Leonard Nimoy) recites the famous "Space, the final frontier..." monologue at the end of the film for the first time since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

* Sarek's dialog to the child Spock, regarding logic offering "a serenity humans seldom experience" originally appeared in the animated episode "Yesteryear". Additionally, Sarek's explanation to Spock of why he married Amanda, that it was "logical," echoes the same reasoning heard in TOS: "Journey to Babel".

* During all of the scenes in the USS Kelvin opening, the crew uses communicators that are very similar to those used in The Original Series.

* When Kirk enters the cadet shuttle, he cockily walks into a bulkhead. This is what Scotty did in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

* Nero's screaming "Spock!" was reminiscent of Kirk screaming "Khan!" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

* Spock's refusal to comment on Uhura's first name is likely a reference to the dubious canonicity of the name prior to the film's release.

* Chief Engineer Olson, who dies almost instantly on an away mission, is conspicuously dressed in a red space jump suit.

* Gaila is chided by Uhura for her promiscuity, a nod to sexual appetites of the Orion slave girls first seen in TOS: "The Cage"/TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II".

* Uhura comments on that she decoded a message from a Klingon prison planet, Rura Penthe, which had been expanded upon from a previously deleted scene and storyline.

* When Spock and Kirk reach the Starfleet outpost on Delta Vega, an alien walks up to them and places his goggles on his forehead. The look of the alien and his action with his goggles is very similar to the Kolarans who ambushed Data, Worf and Picard on Kolarus III in Star Trek Nemesis.

* Kirk snacks on an apple during the Kobayashi Maru when he knew for certain that he had beaten the no win scenario. Kirk also snacked on an apple in the Genesis cave below Regula when he knew that he had beaten Khan from being buried alive. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

* Captain Richard Robau's "Number One" is his Navigator George Kirk. Captain Pike's "Number One" also worked at the Navigation and Helm console.

* Uhura orders a Fire Tea, Budweiser Classics, Cardassian Sunrises, and a Slusho at the Shipyard Bar. JJ Abrams has previously used Slusho in the film Cloverfield and the television series Alias.

[szelim]

I thought I heard a callout to Nurse Chapel in sick bay.

 

Spcok's mom's clothing looked similar to something she wore on TOS.

 

Loved seeing the old style gun-phasers.