See R2-D2, Slusho, The Tribble, Friends & Family and more Easter Eggs in ‘Star Trek’ [UPDATED] November 18, 2009
by Matt Wright , Filed under: DVD/Blu-ray, Star Trek (2009 film) , trackback
As we reported over the summer, there are a lot of friends, family, and general Trek references throughout Star Trek (2009). With the release of Star Trek on DVD and Blu-ray we thought we’d try and hunt down all the cameo’s and visual references to other work by J.J. Abrams and other Star Trek series, along with a little droid friend from another franchise…
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Star Wars in Star Trek?
Keeping up the tradition of ILM sneaking Star Wars items into the background of Trek (First Contact has the Millenium Falcon in the Borg battle), this time around they snuck R2-D2 into the debris around Vulcan. R2-D2 can be seen tumbling past the left portion of the viewscreen for a split second around 47:39.
Trek winks and nods
Of course, the entire film itself is a nod to classic Trek, but there are a few more subtle props and moments that we find particularly interesting.
Saurian Brandy in the Iowa bar fight
1701-D on Kirk’s survival pack
Caged Tribble in Scotty’s office
Admiral Komack during Kirk’s hearing
Delta shield design in the rings (on its side, in the negative space)
NOTE: Although some may think this a ’stretch’, in the commentary track of the DVD & Blu-ray, JJ Abrams actually points this Easter Egg out
The Vulcan Lander from First Contact and Romulan Bird of Prey from Enterprise in the belly of the Narada
Cloverfield
And being that this was a JJ Abrams production, there were a couple of winks to his 2008 viral promoted movie Cloverfield.
Slusho in the bar
Tagruato Corporation in the San Francisco skyline
Friends and Family
And the Star Trek movie is chock full of little cameos from friends and family of the current (and past) of Star Trek.
J.J Abram’s father and father-in-law get mixed up in the bar brawl
Joe Quinto (Zach’s older brother) gets to pick on his younger brother as a Romulan
Akiva Goldsman (screenwriter on many projects with J.J. Abrams) as a Vulcan council member
Neville Paige (head creature designer for Star Trek 2009) as a Romulan
Amanda Foreman (Felicity and Alias) as bridge officer Hannity
Rachel Nichols (Alias and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) as Gaila
Paul McGillion (Stargate Atlantis) as the barracks officer in the hanger
Tyler Perry as Admiral Richard Barnett
Randy Pausch on the Kelvin bridge
A professor of computer science and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon Unviersity, author of The Last Lecture, and life long fan of Star Trek who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, it was a dream of his to be in a Trek production.
Chris Doohan (son of James "Scotty" Doohan) in the transporter room
James Cawley (Capt. Kirk and founder of Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II fan films) on the bridge
Jeff Quinn (Spock in early New Voyages epsiodes) in a flashback of the Jellyfish design team
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that’s fantastic, I love the fact that R2 is in there and the 1701-D is referenced :) I dont quite understand the delta pattern?
No Westley? I seem to recall hearing his voice…
Awesome!
First
#2:
It was Wesley’s voice, but not his face. Wil Wheton dubbed over the original line in ADR. He never actually appeared on screen though.
I spotted R2-D2, the Tribble, the Saurian Brandy and Randy Pausch while watching it on Blu-Ray, but never really took notice of the other eggs. Very interesting!
At least it gives me a reason to watch it a lot more. ;)
The delta shield in Saturn’s rings is a bit of a stretch.
Wish I could have had an extra part in the movie!
Here’s one I thought was really neat and forgotten!:
In the Jellyfish ship, the shape of the triangular chair against the round silhouette of the windshield makes a shape that looks distinctly like the Vulcan Science Academy symbol.
enterprise crewman actor search:
on the bridge of the E. sitting in the background, is a blonde shorthaired female officer (blue shirt). her screentime is less than a second. can anyone tell me the name? i don´t think she´s listed in the credits…
I bought my Target-exclusive DVD yesterday and I couldn’t be happier! I’m saving my first home viewing for a time when I can really savor it.
The Starship Enterprise it came with never looked better!
6. ety3 – November 18, 2009
Abrams points out the delta shape in the commentary.
When is the price going below $10?
good to have all those together in one article, thanks…fascinating
Just watched the BD features, it shows the plaque stating Enterprise Starship Class, San Fran ship yards…..didn’t it come from iowa? Or was it sorta built there then moved to the orbital yard?
I KNEW that was Jeff Quinn :o)
Nice to see it confirmed.
awesome! I am glad to see that you guys found more than just the R2 one..
There are dozens of other homages to TOS and TNG trek, and evenn later versions of Trek. Months ago there was a detailed thread about these at Trek Today. It makes for interesting reading.
When Kirk is ill in sick bay you can hear McCoy call for Nurse Chapel
R2-D2 in Star Trek does not set well with me…sorry. :)
The delta shield pattern seems just a little bit far-fetched.
Has anyone seen Richard Arnold so far?
The delta shield in the rings’ negative space is a bit of a stretch. I bet you could find that basic shape 20 times in the movie that even JJ didn’t know about.
Otherwise, cool! I watched it 3 times in the theatres and never spotted R2… stupid droid! I spot Gaila nightly in my dreams. Mmmmm.
R2-D2.
What did you expect? This movie was nothing more than Abram’s lame attempt to remake “Star Wars” using Roddenberry’s characters!
He had to stick R2 in there somewhere!
I know where he should have stuck it. The same place he should have stuck the rest of this ill conceived abortion!
The 1701-D bag isn’t an homage to TNG, if you notice during the shuttle boarding scene, the shuttles are all lettered ie 1701/D. It just means he has a survival pack from the D shuttle.
The R2 D2 insertion is great! Reminds me of the sly placement of Miss Piggy on one of the huge V-ger models used for the flyby sequence in TMP. In fact, if my memory serves, Vader may be in there somewhere as well. Fun stuff.
@23 – i don’t agree. I believe that its actually ILM that did that because they exist because of star wars. They like putting in star wars easter eggs in all the movies they work on.
I mangaged to find R2D2 without freeze framing. I also saw the tribble for the first time.
I actually saw James Cawley earlier than i did in the theater. When i saw him the first time he was just standing there. But now i saw him shortly before walking to the back of the bridge where i saw him originally.
Does Jeff Quinn really count? If that screen cap posted above is the best there is, you can’t really see his face. I’m not sure that counts.
Lord Ravenwood
You have the collective permission of the thoughtfully minded and courteous fans on this site to step into the nearness jettison tube. Hit the red button once you’re comfortable. 3 1/2 second later….pwoosh!
(We get it. You’re an unyielding Talifan. If you’re not going to post anything constructive here…might I suggest aintitcool.com. You’ll find the posters there more in synch with your narrow perspective.)
Ok I got like 5 of them. I feel pretty good about myself, I usually never pick up on those.
Why would you hide a delta shield in Saturn’s rings in a movie that is littered with them? That’s like saying “Hey, there’s a bat symbol in the shadows of the Dark Knight!”
Here’s one I haven’t heard anyone else mention: when we are told that the Transporter is now operating, we see the logo for the transporter used in the signage of ST:TMP. It was in the signage sticker book out out in 1980. It was very obvious and cool.
#29 – It might be like the hidden Mickeys at Disneyworld. If it was intentional, then the movie is probably littered with many of them.
BTW- Finally I have seen R2D2. Only five viewings and I spent a good deal of time looking for it last night in the scene. I am relieved to get the time mark. (and I love that the big battle is at the “47″ minute mark as well) — BTW, why did they put Winona on shuttle 37 instead of 47?
#14, just because a ship is built in a certain location, that does not mean it will necessarily be registered there. Look at the example of the RMS Titanic. She was built in Belfast, yet had Liverpool emblazoned on her stern. This is because she was registered at the Port of Liverpool.
I surmise that the Enterprise was built in Iowa and registered with the San Francisco Fleet Yards. In which case, showing the Enterprise being built in Iowa is not in fact a breach of any pre-existing ‘canon’, not that you said it was.
You forgot one. Richard Arnold is one of the Romulans working on the Red Matter in the back ground.
I’ve heard about the Millennium Falcon in FC’s big battle scene but still can’t find it. Is there a screen capture available somewhere showing that?
Oh, and Scotty’s tribble must be sterile… or he’s not feeding it.
#34
http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/1465.full.jpg
No lightsaber duel?
I remember back in 2001 that there was a Enterprise Model on one of the Coruscant Background scenes on SW episode 1. However I was never able to get where it was on the movie.
Not sure if it’s an ‘Easter egg’ or not, but some of the names of the shuttles as the cadets are assigned to their ships are “Moore”, and “Gilliam”.
The Delta Shield is a bit of a stretch.
#9 — I thought I saw Diora Baird (minus the green skin) on the bridge. I wonder if we’re thinking about the same blonde crewmember.
I am sure someone already found this one;
Barracks Officer: Vader, USS Hood. (Reference to Darth Vader and the fact that he wore a hood in Star Wars.
Kirk: They didn’t call my name.
heck, i always thought KELVIN was a nod to they Clancy brown Character in LOST.
Here is something interesting I noticed. During the bar fight, one of the cadets is pushed against a table. There is a blonde sitting there TEXTING. Just goes to show that its not a fad. :-P
Lord Ravenwood,
Please go away. You are nothing but an immature troll…and a bad one at that.
#45
Agree!
Isn’t the Enterprise D supposed to be in a shot of one of the Star Wars films?
Dutch world champ boxer Lucia Rijker has a cameo as a Romulan comm officer on the Narada. Most Dangerous Woman In The World – wouldn’t want to cross her! :D
#6 – Lol! The EXACT same words went through my mind when I looked at the photo.
#9
I think that’s Jolene Kay as Lieutenant Adams.
Here is her official site and it looks like she meets your description.
http://www.jolenekay.com/
Also in there is W. Morgan Sheppard as Vulcan Science Council Head Minister when Spock turns them down.
Any other confirmed cameos?
R2-d2 is awesome! Glad he made it in! Now for the survival pack, that just don’t make sense but was coool! Come to think of it I did see the mallinnium falcon in First Contact but really second guessed myself!
@9
It sure looks alot like a homage to the female doctor from “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. I noticed it too but that’s who I think it is. Jj put alot of people in it that were based on TOS characters. She can be seen on the bridge right while Kirk and Sulu are falling off the drill.
don’t let PETA see the caged tribble!!!
Delta shield in Saturn? hahah noooo… but I would add the Kelvin Communicator and Phaser as Homages to the TOS props!
Is that blob really the Millenium Falcon?
I consider the use of the word “tractor beam” in Star Wars as well as Ben’s “sensing” the destruction of Alderaan as “Trek” tribute easter eggs in that film.
How about the Narada opening up the way Vger did in TMP
Randy Pausch was a great man. I’m so happy he was able to do do that (thanks to J.J.)
They missed the apple easter egg during the kobayashi maru simulation – In Star Trek 2 Kirk is chomping on a red apple when he proclaims ”i dont like to lose”
Lucky for me, I was both a Trekkie and a Warsie. Hope the next “Star Trek” motion picture would include references to a different media franchise like, I don’t know, Disney’s “Power Rangers”. I hope there would be a Federation starship named after a Power Ranger character or homeworld, like the USS Eltar, named after Zordon’s home planet.
Matt, did I see a First Contact-style Vulcan lander aboard the Narada as Spock steals the jellyfish and makes his escape?
Tyler Perry as Admiral Richard Barnett
Really?
I mean, isn’t it supposed to be:
Tyler Perry’s Admiral Richard Barnett
#36 and #54 – the link of the MF picture does not work.
What are we supposed to see?
I never saw this supposed TOS phaser in the Kelvin scenes, just the communicator and lots of people blowing up. :P
My husband and I watched ST XI yesterday evening and loved it all over again. The extras were fantastic. We watched the gag reel several times. We had fun picking out all of the cameos and “easter eggs”. My huband is a huge Lost fan and picked up “Slusho” right away. My favorite: Paul McGillion as the Barracks Leader. I am a huge Stargate Atlantis fan.
@35:
Maybe the Tribble has been “fixed” in the alternate timeline like we do cats and dogs today.
Guys go to Target and get the blu ray.. they have one thats a model of the Big E and it’s pretty accurate for only $24. The discs fit inside the saucer!! Very cool :)
After watching this movie again on Blu Ray it hit me there are waaaaayyyyyyyy too many lens flares. It became quite annoying.
Who was the guy Kirk gives the motorcycle keys to at the shipyard? He looked familiar.
Sorry, but I never was a Star Wars fan. It never seemed to have the depth of intelligence that Star Trek posessed. Could care less if R2D2 was in the easter egg hunt or not.
Glad to see Randy Pausch in it. HE really was a great guy!
The delta pattern is just reaching, I don’t think that was done intentionally.
Also, the “punch it” command by Pike, and the Enterprise not going to warp, is right out of Empire Strikes Back and the Falcon’s hyperdrive problem.
#67
Actually, I’m sorry that the Star Wars universe is lost on you. I, myself, love all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy. Heck, I just enjoy genre stuff as a whole.
I love to read Heinlein and Asimov and Niven and Stephenson. I like movies directed by Cameron and Spielberg and Jackson and Del Toro.
I loved D9. And I enjoyed Jackson’s King Kong. I dug Cloverfield and am a sucker for a Godzilla flick if I come across one on TV. Star Wars, in it’s first run in 1977 was such a huge moment in my life that I have gone back to the movies time and time again hoping to relive the experience of that very first time. I enjoyed it more than TMP. And I was a Star Trek fan first.
Of course maybe you just don’t like Star Wars, which is cool. I don’t like liver.
R2D2 had a cameo in Close Encounters of the Third Kind as well.
#6, 40, 68 Yeah, really.
James Cawley cut his hair! No wonder I didn’t spot him.
#62 It wasn’t a TOS phaser, it was just similar in design (sort of) and never shown on screen.
#70: never understood the need of some people to denigrate STAR WARS when speaking about STAR TREK.
Plus ILM has been a godsend to the TREK franchise. Digital Domain? Phht! They had the Enterprise-E leaving smoke trails when it went to warp in NEMESIS. INSURRECTION had TV quality CG, unfortunately it was a theatrical motion picturem, and the effects of FINAL FRONTIER….
I don’t have anything against Star Wars but I don’t like the idea to put R2 in Star Trek. Why not the other way round?
50:
Thanks for that link! I ended up pouring over her site. I find her magnetic.
67:
Seconded, Randy Pausch was heck of a human being. If you’ve not watched his last lecture, do so now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
#72: Thanks for the clarification. Is there a picture of it somewhere? I could have sworn Mr. Pascale mentioned it in his review where he nitpicked the use of TOS-era rather than pilot-era communicators and phasers in 2233.
I too like both Star Wars and Star Trek. I don’t understand why there has to be this juvenile “rivalry” — they’re quite different in their style of science fiction. Star Wars owes more to fantasy and ancient chivalry. Star Trek is basically composed of metaphors for current social issues. Both are good in their own way.
#73
I don’t know about you, but I’m old enough to remember that when Space:1999 first aired, there was a certain amount of backlash against it from some of the Trek die-hards. Of course myself, being the square peg, loved Space:1999 and failed to see why there was a conflict.
I just think that sometimes Star Trek fans feel so proprietary over the franchise that anybody else getting any action is taken as a threat.
I’ll bet most of the Star Wars folks in charge of production on that franchise are HUGE Trek fans. Heck, on the Bluray extras, Ben Burtt (you know? The guy that invented the sound of R2-D2 and Darth Vader and Lightsabers and everything else in Star Wars? Ya’ know, the guy who did the sound design on the new Trek film?) remarked that he was a gigantic fan of Star Trek and that his introduction to it was through the sounds of the episodes that his father recorded for him since he couldn’t watch it at the school he was going to.
It will manifest itself when someone says that there is something about the new Star Trek film they don’t like. They’ll get called a “Talifan” or something else equally ridiculous. My own personal opinion is that the new film is greatly entertaining and that it has flaws. Kind of like everything else in the world.
(And yes, I know that there are actual haters out there. I presume the reasonable person knows the difference, but I’ve been wrong before.)
#74
The Millenium Falcon was used in a similar way to R2 in First Contact. Sort of a background ship in the distance that you don’t notice.
There is your other way around.
Thank you so much for posting this! Finally a list of all the famous cameos!
@73 …and the effects of FINAL FRONTIER… done in the garage and basement of someone’s mother’s house in New Jersey. It’s more fun to remember that. Oh, if we could just take Final Frontier, remaster it, edit it and give it a CGI’d ending that made sense.
@OP… There’s no way that a squished delta as described could be intentional. Any ringed planet is going to appear to have a squished delta on both sides. But everyone’s saying that.
I must say though… that all the little things throughout the movie, were truly a *real* “valentine to the fans”. Thank goodness for the little bits like these. Even if you didn’t like the movie, you could enjoy the little bits.
Wasn’t Keenser green by the way, continuing Mr. Scott’s fascination with things green?
RE: Delta logo in saturn rings
You may call it a stretch, but listen to the audio commentary. JJ Abrams himself points it out
Re: the Millenium Falcon in FC:
Yes the ILM guys have said so. All the pictures online are from the DVD, at some point I’ll do a Blu-ray capture which is hopefully a little more clear, but its going to be blurry no matter what because it’s in motion.
#56 — I agree I’m glad Prof. Pausch was able to be in the film
#59 — Good question, when I have some time I’ll go look at that point in the movie.
#76 — The Kelvin-era props were put on display in the lobby of the arclight theater in Hollywood. They aren’t TOS nor are they Cage-era. They are a funky amalgamation. The comunicator is clearly an homage to the TOS one, but clearly cast off of the shape of an iPhone and then some brass added to it.
http://startrekpropauthority.blogspot.com/2009/06/abrams-star-trek-xi-uss-kelvin-pistol.html
http://startrekpropauthority.blogspot.com/2009/06/abrams-star-trek-xi-uss-kelvin.html
I bought Professor Pausch’s DVD from Carnegie Mellon even though I saw the whole thing on YouTube a few times. Worth every penny.
So happy I saw him in the film, I can only imagine his excitement of being filmed on the bridge of a Federation starship, and I’m so glad he’s forever captured there.
Jolene Kay is just beyond hot, especially in Starfleet uniform. Good casting, guys!
They put elements of Star Wars in the Star Trek movie? Shocking! >;>}
I thought I saw a cameo by KAL PENN on the Enterprise bridge, too.
Would make sense – Harold & Kumar take on Nero
I couldn’t find R2D2 no matter how hard i looked, during the DVD commentary it was hinted that we should look out for something so its great to actually see where R2D2 is! I like to think that the cew rescued him before leaving Vulcan and he was wandering around in the ship off camera for the rest of the movie lol.
I actually spotted the tribble when i saw the movie at IMAX (which was my fourth viewing all up) and me and my mother got a real kick out of it becuase The Trouble With Tribbles is her favourite Original Series episode. She had her ‘pet’ Tribble with her too so he got a real kick out of seeing one of his relatives on screen! :)
So that’’s what Randy Pausch looked like — I was looking for him when I watched my DVD last night, but couldn’t find him… I think he was hidden by a lens flare (I kid, I kid!).
That’s an awesome picture of Chris Doohan, by the way. He looks so much like is dad, it’s kind of scary. :)
By the way, does anyone know who plays the Kelvin crewer who gets sucked out of the corridor into space? That seems like a natural place for some kind of cameo.
Matt – it sure looks like the vulcan lander. Around 1:42:53, you catch a brief glimpse of a few ships on board the Narada. In the centre of the screen, at the top, is the ship I mentioned. It looks like a dead ringer for the ship from First Contact. I also spotted two other ships in the frame, one near the lower left corner and one near the upper right corner. They look similar to yet are different from the Vulcan ship.
Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone else think it looks like the Vulcan ship from First Contact?
Not sure if this is an Easter Egg or just a Vulcan design, but I didn’t notice if first time around, at any rate.
IDIC – http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Jellyfish_pilot.jpg
91 — Yeah that was purposeful and has been discussed before on TrekMovie and is mentioned in the supplemental material as a purposeful shape that hints at IDIC. That’s also why the filmed in a chapel with triangular shapes in the roof and rafters for the Vulcan Science Academy scene.
87. MC Doctor… “I thought I saw a cameo by KAL PENN on the Enterprise bridge, too.”
There’s a man of South Asian descent on the Bridge, but it isn’t Kal Penn.
If you look hard enough and long enough you can see William Shatner waving from one of the windows at the Tagruato building.
Didn’t Alias star Victor Garber also appear the the deleted scenes?
^2,4. Wil Wheaton wrote that he did the voices of all the Romulans on Nero’s ship. His voice is filtered to sound like different people, but knowing it’s him you can imagine Nero’s entire crew is Wesley Crushers. http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/11/in-which-a-fairly-major-secret-is-made-secret-no-more.html
Very fitting that Chris Doohan & James Cawley were onboard. How many movies is R2 going to be hidden in? That’s been going on since Close Encounters…
@74
You want Star Trek in R2D2?
@90: You’re right — I think John Eaves mentioned it on his blog that they used the First Contact Vulcan lander as background ships parked on the Narada.
# 90 — sure enough I see the vulcan lander! and I also see the BOPs from Enterprise I’ll get a shot up soon!
Here’s the scene with professor Randy Pausch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqFyY5f8Zmw
I can’t say that I am impressed with the R2D2 insert, to me that is nothing more than an insult to Trek fans. This goes back to the Millennium Falcon in First Contact…. If I wanted to see Star Wars junk I’d watch Star Wars. Honestly ILM, stop trying to promote an inferier series!
Updated the Millenium Falcon link to a capture from the Blu-ray disc of First Contact. It’s still pretty hard to make out, but it’s a little more clear.
I also added the Vulcan Lander and Romulan BOPs in the Narada.
nicely done matt
Just wached Star Trek on Blu-Ray last night after seeing it 11 times in the theatres and it was still amazing! I didn’t realize until watching it last night that when the Enterprise warped in and started firing phasers at the Narada they were actually shooting down the Narada’s missiles as they were aimed at the jellyfish. Can’t believe I never noticed that after 11 times. Just thought they were shooting at the Narada. Loved the gag reel and deleted scenes!
#27: Check the Curcuit:
You can stick it the same place JJ Abrams should have stuck this ill conceived abortion!
This movie was a blatant “spit in the face” at Gene Roddenberry’s memory.
Leonard Nimoy has obviously become senile to have anything to do with this…”film!”
Check the Circuit
It is not your place to say who should be here and who should not
that being said
Ravenwood
warning for flaming and trolling
find a way to debate without using that kind of language
And you owe Mr. Nimoy an apology, that is totally uncalled for.
#87,
Yes I’m pretty sure I saw it too. Funny, he may have had the largest closeup of all the “extras”. Wonder if John had it put into his contract, LOL.
ILM really loves the hobby of putting Star Wars stuff to Star Trek
Ok. Have the Target bluray excl. in hand. The insert had the url to get to the site to access the 3D feature using your webcam. Not sure yet my cut out box will function, but haven’t gotten that far. I allow the site site to load active x on my pc. Then I do a load, it gets to 34% and either stops my internet explorer from working or I get a error #9 code box. I click again, it continies to load, and get the error box again, and or my explorer closes on me.
I’m using windows vista. So haven’t gotten it to load and the cam show to strat running.
Anyone having these issues, or know of patch? When I go to bottom of screen, it say: Sytem requirments. I click on this and it goes to a 1 pg. paramount site that lists countries this feature does or does not work, and USA is NOT there, and it doesn’t list the requirements.
I’m bummed I can’t use my box pkging to see the 3D warp effect, firing weapons, etc.
Any help woulbe be grately appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#70
Whereas you are a sci-fi fan, that is where we differ. I am a Star Trek fan. The intelligence that Star Trek brought to both the small and large screen, along with the humor was both entertaining and thought provoking.
And by the way, we do have something in common. I don’t like liver either.
@32:
I’ve been saying the exact same thing for over a year now on here, it’s like banging your head against a brick wall at times, after a while you just give up before you suffer serious brain damage.
The shipyard worker that Kirk gives his motor/hover bike to is Bob Clendenin, a character actor whose been in probably literally everything on tv at some stage, including JJ’s Felicity back in the day. He also did a one shot as a Vidiian doctor in an episode of Voyager so there’s another one to add to the collection of cameos!
what about Darth vader & miss piggy in v’ger’s memory core?
# 84
Thanks for those links Matt. It’s great to have a closeup view of the Kelvin Phaser and Communicator props. I gotta’ say, I find those way more aesthetically appealing than the ones used in the rest of the film, especially the Phaser.
I think JJ Abrams would have been better served by doing Star Wars episodes 7, 8, and 9, instead of Star (Trek) Wars 2009. Star Trek is a very good movie, which I am able to enjoy as long as I block existing Star Trek knowledge while watching it. It’s quite difficult to catch all of the tricks in such a fast paced movie. I like Star Wars a lot, but not in the middle of Star Trek, please. If they focused on not having glaring continuity errors instead of these little tricks to look for on the DVD release on slow motion, it would have been a much better movie….maybe even the best.
WOW! I can’t belive I didn’t catch any of that! as soon as I get my copy I’m looking out for all of these things! btw i do have a copy of the movie but It was scratched so i’m getting a new 1 tonight!
12. Pop queried “When is the price going below $10?”
In the U.S., Black Friday, i.e. the Friday after Thanksgiving, is when the single disc DVD so dips for while.
I loved every min of the movie. Mabie it was just nostalgia. From the catch phrases to James T’s cockey head bob as he enters the brige he even crossed his legs in the captians chair. I didn’t go see it in theaters for feer I’d want to burn down the place after wards. I missed out!!! My bad. It was true to the spirt of the Trek.
98* Justice Boy: Please think of the children!! where would they live!
Can someone post a time code for the Millennium Falcon in “First Contact” and for Miss Piggy in “ST:TMP” (I know where Darth Vader is).
Thanks
Dan
Ah, the irony of claiming that you “COULD care less” if R2-R2 had a cameo in Star Trek, while in the same post criticizing the “depth of intelligence” of Star Wars. LMAO!
#102: “I can’t say that I am impressed with the R2D2 insert, to me that is nothing more than an insult to Trek fans.”
Oh good grief, get over it! I swear, people’s tolerance levels are so miniscule it’s not even funny! Why do people look for the most stupid reasons to be insulted?
Tell me why? Why? Why is it an insult for Star Trek to pay homage to another segment of our sci fi community?
#120 — Here’s a link to the time code and a DVD shot:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/2339.html
Miss Piggy isn’t in TMP really. There’s a few seconds where the V’ger recall of the epsilon 9 station sort of looks like it. The Blu-ray version makes the detail more clear and you can see it isn’t. Same with the supposed Darth helmet, it is just the shadowing and lack of detail in those few seconds.
Take a look at the bottom right image on this page
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=351&page=5
and then the first one the next page to see what it really is as the station becomes clearer.
@102: “Why is it an insult for Star Trek to pay homage to another segment of our sci fi community?”
Exactly. I hope the next Trek movie has the Serenity, a Star Destroyer, a Starfury, and a TARDIS hidden somewhere in it!
It’s not in nuTrek, but my favorite Trek sci-fi homage of all time is in “First Contact”. During the spacewalk to detach the deflector dish, we discover that the deflector is an AE-35 unit, just like the dish on the spaceship Discovery from “2001″. I remember seeing that in the theater and making a comment. Nobody else really wanted me talking though. To this day, I always get a little giddy (don’t ask me why) when I see the screen come up with the letters AE-35 in “First Contact”.
Both spacewalks, of course, ended badly…
Rob+
For the sound buffs out there, those who lived through both Star Trek on TV and saw Star Wars in the theaters in 1977 for the first time, if you listen carefully to the ”environment” in Obi Wan’s desert home just after the conclusion to Obi Wan and Luke finally listening to the entire holographic message by Princess Leia, Star Trek TOS fans will notice that the background sound matches the sound of being inside the shuttlecraft from The Menagerie when Kirk and Mendez are flying in pursuit of the Enterprise. Now, for sure, there were a lot of stock sound effects in those days that hearkened back decades, but Ben Burtt’s specific inclusion of it in the Obi Wan scene must have crossed his mind–being that he knew the original Star Trek sound effects so vividly.
#124 — Embarassingly I only found out about that awesome little nod to 2001 the other day as I was looking for information about the Millenium Falcon in F.C.
What about the reference to Admiral Archer’s beagle being transported by Scotty, and that was the reason (he thinks) that he got put on the desolate planet (Kirk even remembers the beagle). Anyone catch that one ?
to:
36. somethoughts – November 18, 2009
http://www.eeggs.com/images/items/1465.full.jpg
# 34. I’m dead Jim – November 18, 2009
I’ve heard about the Millennium Falcon in FC’s big battle scene but
still can’t find it. Is there a screen capture available somewhere
showing that?
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The link to the shot from fist contact does not work (it gets a 403-forbidden error)
I just found a flub in Star Trek that I’ve not heard mentioned yet. When the Captain first walks onto the bridge of the Kelvin he is wearing his Starfleet insignia badge, but when he goes to sit down in the Captain’s chair his badge has disappears. When he is shown again a few moments later the badge has returned. Has anyone else noticed this?
I meant to say his badge has disappeared and not “has disappears”. Sorry for the mistake.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but at 1:42:53, when Spock is departing the Narada on board the Jellyfish, on the top, center of the screen, on one of the plattforms inside the Narada, you can see the Vulcan landing ship that is seen in First Contact. Anyone catch this one before?
@Pop:
Most likely, only on the ordinary plastic no-frills edition.
Which begs me to ask, why didn’t you splurge and buy the steelbox edition (exclusive to FYE in the U.S., Future Shop in Canada-where I’m from, and where I bought mine at-and to other countries at stores I know nothing about, sadly.)
…Wonder if they’ll put a Dr Who egg in the sequel..? Otherwise, fun stuff to watch for and I’ll go do that now. Good article. :)
Anyone know the book that was shown to Leonard Nimoy with the picture from ‘Amok Time’, shown to him as an example of good Vulcan ear appliance work ?
If you want to view Randy Pausch cameo in the latest StarTrek movie on YouTube. Go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqFyY5f8Zmw
Enjoy!
Chuck
#129-I noticed that too. Not until I watched the DVD, however. I didn’t notice the error with the insignia badge when I saw the movie in the theater, but for some reason it came right at me when I watched the DVD.
Prices of DVDs usually drop when the film hits the pay movie cable channels; usually about a year after the theatrical release. The single disc should be priced around $10 by next May or June.
#136
It was $9 at WalMart for Black Friday. It seems to be staying there too at my local.
Speaking of easter eggs, on the DVD commentary JJ says something about another easter egg to look for earlier in the vulcan wreckage sequence. Anyone figure out what this was because i sure couldn’t.
Thanks for pointing out Joe Quinto. I knew that Romulan was someone but I just couldn’t place him. This just makes it hysterical. :)
And to #132: Argh! FYE had a steelbox edition for Trek? I knew I should have checked them out.
#9, #41, it looks like the blonde Enterprise crew member you’re asking about is Jolene Kay.