Star Trek tributes

Template:Realworld This article is to list instances of significant recognitions of Star Trek's contributions to art, culture, and science.

Blizzard Entertainment Games

StarCraft

Several references are made to Star Trek in Blizzard's 1998 computer game StarCraft:

• The commander of the Protoss Arbiter occasionally says, "Duras!" and "Gowron!"
• When clicked on repeatedly, the pilot of the Protoss Corsair says, "Zefram Cochrane... is that you? What did you do to your hair?"
• When the commander of the Terran Battlecruiser is given an order, he sometimes says, "Make it happen." or when clicked on, "Hailing frequencies open." When clicked on repeatedly, he says "Shields up, weapons online! Not equipped with shields? Well then, buckle up!" He also says, "Number Two, I have to take a Number One."
• The commander of the Terran Science Vessel says, "Ship... out of danger?"
• The Medic unit (in the Brood War expansion) says, "Please state the nature of the medical emergency". When clicked on repeatedly, she also says, "He's dead, Jim".

StarCraft II

The upcoming sequel to StarCraft, while still only in development stages, already has one possible Star Trek reference.

• In the profile for the AH/G-24 Banshee air-to-ground attack ship, it states that it was designed and build by Procyon industries, a possible reference to the Battle of Procyon V from Star Trek: Enterprise.

World of Warcraft

In addition, Blizzard's 2004 computer game World of Warcraft also contains several references. In late 2007, William Shatner, Mr. T, Verne Troyer did commercials for the game, with Shatner's theme being how he is an elite Tauren shaman. [1]

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft has numerous references to Star Trek, of which the most notable ones are:

• In Gadgetzan, the chief engineer is named Jhordy Lapforge, honoring the TNG chief engineer Geordi LaForge.
• In Booty Bay, there is a goblin named Scooty who operates the "Transporter 3000". Completing the quest and using the transporter takes you to Gnomeregan, where a goblin named Sprok waits on the other side, with his faction labeled as Away Team.
• In Exodar, there is a group of draenei that walks around checking out the holograms, named Audrid, Curzon, Emony, Tobin and Torias. They were all hosts of the Dax symbiont in Deep Space Nine.
• In Area 52 in Netherstorm there is a character named Chief Engineer Trep. He wears a blue shirt similar to his TV counterpart, Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker.
• In Orgrimmar the NPC Engineer's name is Nogg, a Deep Space Nine reference.
• In Stormwind in the Old Town district, there is a human named Lenny "Fingers" McCoy, a reference to Leonard "Bones" McCoy from The Original Series. There is also a female named Sloan McCoy, who sells Poison Supplies.
• Warden Treelos in Terokkar Forest says There are four lights! when first talking to him. Captain Jean-Luc Picard said the exact same thing in the double episode "Chain of Command, Part II".
• There is a quest in the Netherstorm called You're Hired, where you search for Etherlithium Matrix Crystals, a play on the Dilithium Matrix Crystals used to redirect energy generated in warp engines.
• After completing the Netherstorm quest "That Little Extra Kick," the giver and receiver of this quest (B.O.O.M. Master Mixologist Boots) dies. A goblin paramedic rushes in to stimulate his heart. After a couple of shocks, the paramedic screams "Dammit Boots, I'm a doctor, not a priest!", a reference to the famous I'm a doctor, not a... series of quotes.
• There is an auctioneer called Rhyker in The Undercity
• In Toshley's Station, there is a gnome standing to the north named Smiles O'Byron. Miles O'Brien is also referred to as Smiley in the alternate universe episodes of Deep Space Nine.

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

• The map cheat code of onscreen and the fast build cheat of makeitso are references to Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are both commands often given by Captain Picard.
• The invulnerability cheat of It is a good day to die is also from the show; it is a Klingon proverb. It's root origin was from the battle of Thermopylae. It was one of the responses Leonidas gave to the Persian emissary when he was asked to surrender as he had no chance of winning. Star Trek gets it from this historical reference. The same sentence is an order-confirmation from Starcraft: Brood War unit Corsair.

The Boondock Saints

Scene in Irish pub. A Russian gangster walks in and introduces himself as Chekov. Murphy claps his neighbor's shoulder and says "So you're Chekov, huh? Well, this here's McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team."

Hunt for Red October

The aircraft carrier depicted in the film is the USS Enterprise, and has the radio call sign "Starbase". The captain of the Enterprise was portrayed by TNG guest star Daniel Davis.

Ice Age

At one point during the film, the animals Sid, Diego and Manny, along with a prehistoric Human baby, come across a "flying saucer" UFO frozen inside a block of ice. As they walk away, the child takes time to flash the Vulcan salute in the direction of the spaceship.

NASA

• In 1976 United States of America’s President Gerald Ford requested that NASA change the name of the first space shuttle from Constitution to Enterprise in honor of Star Trek and in response to a fan-based letter campaign to do so. Many of the show's cast members were there as the Enterprise was first rolled out onto the tarmac at Edwards Air Force Base while Alexander Courage's theme played in the background.
• Mission Control computers have been called Scotty and Uhura.
• The shuttle's on-board computer is named Spock.
• The working name of the proposed sequel to the Hubble Space Telescope is "Space Telescope Next Generation".
• Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, cited Uhura as an inspiration. She invited Nichelle Nichols to her launch and began each work shift in the shuttle with "Hailing frequencies open".
• An unnamed shuttle astronaut carried Gene Roddenberry’s ashes into space.
• NASA hired Nichelle Nichols in the late 1970s to help recruit women and minorities into the space program as astronauts.
• They have also created a special viewing window, the Window Observational Research Facility (or W.O.R.F. for short), on the Destiny module of the International Space Station that is equipped with state of the art sensors, and is also used to aide in educational outreach programs that are transmitted to Earth. The designers admitted in an issue of Star Trek: Communicator who they were thinking of when they named it.

Smithsonian

• The National Air and Space Museum hosted the reception for the world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• Ralph McQuarrie's concept paintings for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Franz Joseph's original versions of the deck plans for a Template:ShipClass starship, and the fourteen-foot model of the original Enterprise are in the Smithsonian's collection.
• The Smithsonian mounted a very popular exhibition in March, 1992 of Star Trek items.
• The space shuttle Enterprise is now housed at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy annex of the Air and Space Museum.

Culture

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully talked Nichelle Nichols out of quitting Star Trek in 1968, citing that her portrayal of a black woman in a position of power and equality was an important cultural icon.
• Comedian Whoopi Goldberg has said that seeing a black woman sitting on the bridge of a starship, and not working as a maid, made her believe as a young girl that she could be a successful actress. (She said "I saw this show and screamed throughout the house. 'Mamma! Mamma! Come quick! Come quick! There's a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid!'")
• The city of Vulcan, in Alberta, Canada, often holds small-scale Star Trek conventions, as well as having a small statue of the USS Enterprise-A.
• A number of Star Trek theme bands have also emerged, most notably in Sacremento, California.
• Hip-Hop record label Star Trak Entertainment was set up by Star Trek fan Pharrell Williams, the name being a tribute to the show of which he is a fan.

Zoolander

Directed by, and starring avid Trek fan Ben Stiller, the antagonist of the film is named after the Mugato. The film is also produced by Stiller's own production company, Red Hour Films.

See also

• Parodies and pop culture references

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