Let's make a list of the in-jokes in the new Star Trek!

[HPL]

@Mr.Excellent

Fanwank: Starfleet’s security branch may have begun life as a specialization within Engineering. Makes sense - Starfleet was always an exploratory organization first and foremost. So, when they first went out in space, the weapons systems would have been very much an afterthought. Someone needs to be trained to run the things, but no one thought they’d be used often at first, so they just grabbed the guys who’d already been trained to operate and maintain complicated high-power shipboard systems - the engineers.

After Security became a separate specialization, they kept the old Engineering colors out of tradition.

Strangely enough, what you said makes me wonder if the guys who fail out of Engineering School end up in security, owing to the fact Starfleet Engineers tend to be pretty good and Starfleet security tends to be pretty useless.

[boozilu]

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Actually, wasn’t there an early episode where his middle initial is given as “R”? I don’t remember if it said what R stood for.
It was shown in a gravestone in the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” And no, nobody said what the “R” stood for.

Actually, in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, the gravestone said James A Kirk. Everywhere else in TOS, Shatner introduced himself as James T Kirk.

[KneadToKnow]

@boozilu

Actually, in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, the gravestone said James A Kirk. Everywhere else in TOS, Shatner introduced himself as James T Kirk.

Now, that I can see getting fan-wanked into a private joke!

[Lightray]

@pepperlandgirl

Those goddamned slugs from Ceti Alpha Five!

… which were not in the movie. Instead of Ceti eels, they had Centaurian slugs.

[carnivorousplant]

@Lightray

… which were not in the movie. Instead of Ceti eels, they had Centaurian slugs.

Ceti Alpha V Antlions.

From the pic, we many have a Star Wars tie in.

[Raguleader]

@Mr.Excellent

Fanwank: Starfleet’s security branch may have begun life as a specialization within Engineering. Makes sense - Starfleet was always an exploratory organization first and foremost. So, when they first went out in space, the weapons systems would have been very much an afterthought. Someone needs to be trained to run the things, but no one thought they’d be used often at first, so they just grabbed the guys who’d already been trained to operate and maintain complicated high-power shipboard systems - the engineers.

After Security became a separate specialization, they kept the old Engineering colors out of tradition.

Tangentially related to this fanwank, the term Engineer comes from an old English expression (I’m not sure if it’s actually from Old English or not though) which referred to the skilled men who maintained and operated the siege machines, such as the Catapults and the Trebuchets. The heavy weapons of their day.

[Nzinga_Seated]

I love Star Trek, but I am no Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination.

I did catch a few of the more obvious inside jokes, and especially liked, “I’m a doctor, not a physicist!”

I missed the tribble, even though I looked for it.

My favorite moment wasn’t a an inside joke, but it was something that I noticed and enjoyed…when Kirk got the chance to take control of the ship as captain, he lamped back into that chair with the kind of swagger that just screamed Captain Fucking Kirk. I loved it.

[TWDuke]

@boozilu

Actually, in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, the gravestone said James A Kirk. Everywhere else in TOS, Shatner introduced himself as James T Kirk.

So in the future, A will look like R.

[Raguleader]

@Nzinga_Seated

My favorite moment wasn’t a an inside joke, but it was something that I noticed and enjoyed…when Kirk got the chance to take control of the ship as captain, he lamped back into that chair with the kind of swagger that just screamed Captain Fucking Kirk. I loved it.

Speaking of Kirk in the chair, I loved the bit where he’s doing the Kirk lounge in the command chair, and Spock walks by and just snaps “Out of the chair.”

[TBG]

James R. Kirk. Boy, I hope that the in-joke between Kirk and Mitchell involves pirates somehow. James Arrrrr Kirk ye olde salty dawg ye.

[Nzinga_Seated]

@Raguleader

Speaking of Kirk in the chair, I loved the bit where he’s doing the Kirk lounge in the command chair, and Spock walks by and just snaps “Out of the chair.”

Ha! Yes. That is the part I’m thinking of…before he takes command of the ship, he is already doing the Kirk lounge in the chair. The Kirk Lounge? Hee! Did you make that up? *I want to see that movie again. * I almost never watch movies twice.

[Lightray]

He’s also doing the Kirk lounge while he’s captaining the Kobayashi Maru, and it was similar enough to other Shattnerisms that I think that was a callback.

The apple-eating, though… I know that was from somewhere, but couldn’t think of where.

[carnivorousplant]

@Lightray

The apple-eating, though… I know that was from somewhere, but couldn’t think of where.

TWOK in the Genesis cave. “I don’t like to lose.”

[Ephemera]

You’re surely used to it by now, though.

Oh. That was a quote. Sorry.

[carnivorousplant]

@Aesiron

You’re surely used to it by now, though.

Let’s just say I’m used to certain people cheating.

[Magiver]

@The New and Improved Superman

There was a brief glimpse of a black Vulcan among the refugees from the planet’s destruction. I’m probably just reading into it, but I like to think that somehow that’s meant to imply that Tuvok’s ancestors escaped the destruction of the planet. (The idea that there would be racial differences between Vulcans similar to human differentiation was one of the few interesting ideas that “Voyager” had; too bad they bothered to explore the idea any further.)

I always thought Tuvok was another Spock (mixed parents) but that was never spelled out. He was a black man with pointy ears so it seemed logical that he was human/vulcan. If they wanted to differentiate a race then it should have taken on different characteristics unrelated to humans. To me, the Klingons in TNG were more reflective of a diverse looking race.

[Lightray]

But we saw Tuvok’s wife… and she was another black Vulcan.* So it was clearly intended that it be an indication of Vulcan diversity.

• … that really sounds like a SuperFriend, doesn’t it?

[Ephemera]

We also see his mother too, I think. They’re definitely intended as darker hued Vulcans.

[alphaboi867]

@Sampiro

…Sarek’s comment that he married Amanda because “it was logical” (though unlike the series he elaborates on this twice).

I always assumed that his “it seemed the logical thing to do” comment in TOS meant he had sex with Amanda for some reason (emotional lapse, pon farr, etc) and she ended up pregnant.

@Typo Knig

…OK, homosexuality was briefly included in STNG and DS9 episodes, but no major gay characters yet…

You’re refering to the TNG episode, The Outcast. The J’naii were supposed to be androgynous, but were all clearly played by women. For the scene where Guinan is explaining love to Soren the producers showed up on set to make sure there were no same-sex couple in the background and even rewrote Guinan’s line from “when two people” to “when a man & a woman”. Whoopi refused to say the new line. Jonathan Frakes commented that the J’naii came off less like a homophobic society and more like a planet of man-hating lesbians.

[Raguleader]

@alphaboi867

I always assumed that his “it seemed the logical thing to do” comment in TOS meant he had sex with Amanda for some reason (emotional lapse, pon farr, etc) and she ended up pregnant.

The logic broke?