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21 unusual facts about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine


26733 Nanavisitor

Initially designated 2001 HC16, the asteroid was given its present name by the International Astronomical Union in honor of American actress Nana Visitor, who is best known for playing Kira Nerys on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

26734 Terryfarrell

Initially designated 2001 HG16, the asteroid was given its present name by the International Astronomical Union in honor of American actress Terry Farrell, who is best known for playing Jadzia Dax on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Anson Williams

He has gone on to direct many episodes for a variety of television series, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, seaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed.

Anthony Guidera

Guidera has also guest starred in television series such as Renegade, Baywatch, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Angel (in the episodes "The Circle" and "The Ring," respectively).

Jeff Hayenga

In addition a make up continuity photo from the make up department was used for a wanted poster in Odo's security office aboard Deep Space 9 in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Jennifer Hetrick

She is known for playing Vash in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Corinne Becker (the ex-wife of Arnie Becker) on L.A. Law.

Jimmy Diggs

Jimmy Diggs (born September 2, 1955) is an American television screenwriter best known for writing the stories for a combined seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

Joel Brooks

He also appeared in two episodes of Three's Company as Dr. Prescott, a psychologist that Jack sees to build up his self-confidence, and in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Falow in the episode "Move Along Home".

John Knoll

Knoll was also the Computer Graphics Project Designer on The Abyss, an achievement which earned ILM its tenth Academy Award for Visual Effects, and worked on two Star Trek episodes - Star Trek: The Next Generations pilot episode ("Encounter at Farpoint") and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Explorers".

Kevin Carvell

However, Carvell would have some satisfaction at last when numerous elements of this script would make their way to not only to ST: TNG and DS9, but to Star Trek: Voyager as well.

"Endeavours of the Universe" (or "EU") was the recycled name of a failed Star Trek: The Next Generation/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine crossover script.

Kitty Swink

Along with her husband, she contributed her voice to the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen.

Matthew Kapell

Other publications include works on the computer game Civilization, Holocaustal images in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the American speculative fiction and socialist writer Mack Reynolds re-working of the Utopian fiction of Edward Bellamy, and Christian Romance fiction.

Obi Ndefo

He is a graduate of Yale University's drama school and has also appeared on such television series as Angel, The West Wing, The Jamie Foxx Show, Stargate SG-1, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

Peter Greenwood

During 1993 he worked as a costume and special effects technician on an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and on the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

Robert DoQui

Robert made guest appearances on many television series, including I Dream of Jeannie, The Jeffersons, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Adam-12, The Parkers, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season 4 episode "Sons of Mogh" as a Klingon named Noggra.

Stardate

Stardates of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began with 46379.1, corresponding to the sixth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation which was also set in the year 2369.

Susan Gibney

She had a recurring role as Assistant District Attorney Renee Walcott on Crossing Jordan and her portrayal of Dr. Leah Brahms on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Commander Erika Benteen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

She also appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", as Erika Benteen.

Tiny Ron Taylor

He has also appeared on television, including seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Hupyrian manservant Maihar'du, and two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as the Hirogen alpha Idrin.

Tom Towles

Towles' television credits include appearances in NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, ER, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Dramatis Personae"), Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld and Firefly.


Adam Nimoy

His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, The Practice, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Sliders, Gilmore Girls, and The Outer Limits where he directed his father in the episode "I Robot".

Andy Mangels

Mangels and Martin co-wrote a series of novels serving as the official continuation of Star Trek: Enterprise following the television series' cancellation.

Arlene Martel

Martel appeared in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time" (as T'Pring) and the original The Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964) written by Harlan Ellison.

Byron Berline

His music has also appeared in many television and film soundtracks, including Star Trek, Blue Collar, Basic Instinct, Blaze, Back to the Future III, Northern Exposure, Stay Hungry, and Run Simon Run.

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Cress Williams

He portrayed Talak'talan, a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar".

Donovan's Brain

The September 1968 episode of Star Trek, "Spock's Brain" features the disembodied brain of Mr. Spock kept alive in a box attached to a control panel.

Ellen Geer

The remainder of her television credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue and Cold Case.

Expanding Human

It is known for one of the earliest appearances of James Doohan, who later went on to play Scotty in Star Trek.

George Clayton Johnson

He is also known for his work in television, writing screenplays for such noted series as The Twilight Zone, such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts", and Star Trek, the first aired episode of the series, "The Man Trap".

George Weston Limited

Meanwhile, a new advertising campaign featured Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who told television audiences to "Come on over to Loblaws" and "More than the price is right....but by gosh the price is right." In 1974, W. Galen Weston was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of George Weston Limited, and subsequently company President.

Google Now

It was originally code named "Majel" after Majel Barrett, the wife of Gene Roddenberry, and well known as the voice of computer systems in his Star Trek franchise; it was also codenamed "assistant".

Herbert Jefferson, Jr.

In 2007 he played Captain Gault, a freedom fighter, in the Star Trek internet mini series Of Gods and Men.

Highly Illogical

Highly Illogical is an album which contains a collection of songs performed by Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy.

James Kahn

Among the series he worked on were Family Medical Center, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Reality, TekWar (created by William Shatner), Medicine Ball, Xena: Warrior Princess, Melrose Place (which he also co-executive produced in its last years), Star Trek: Voyager (also Supervising Producer) and All My Children (for which he and the writing staff were Emmy-nominated).

Jesús Salvador Treviño

Most notably, Treviño has directed a number of episodes from the television series Resurrection Blvd., Babylon 5, Crusade, Bones, Star Trek: Voyager, seaQuest DSV, Crossing Jordan, Third Watch and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Kerrie Keane

Keane's more notable roles include being co-host of the educational future science series What Will They Think of Next?, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Klingon culture

With the advent of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series the Klingons became allies, and the portrayal of their culture changed to resemble a warrior code similar to the Samurai (or, rather, Western imaginations of them) and Vikings.

Mack Reynolds

Reynolds was the first author to write an original novel based upon the 1966-1969 NBC television series Star Trek.

Marine World/Africa USA

A few other shows such as Cowboy in Africa, Gentle Ben, as well as an episode of Star Trek ("Shore Leave") were also shot there.

Mark Lenard

Lenard also guest-starred as Sarek in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the third season episode "Sarek" (1990) and the fifth season episode "Unification: Part 1" (1991).

Martok

Martok, son of Urthog is a recurring character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actor J. G. Hertzler.

Mike Vejar

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on the four most recent Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah.

Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek

The film, which is the eighth and final in a series of films featuring Alışık as Ömer the Tourist, is commonly known as Turkish Star Trek because of plot and stylistic elements parodied from Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Man Trap (1966) as well as the unauthorized use of footage from the series.

Overacting

William Shatner's performance in the original Star Trek series has been frequently parodied across numerous comedy television shows.

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

Ralph Helfer

The compound was also used as location for shows such as Daktari and even an episode of Star Trek "Shore Leave".

Reef triggerfish

A reef triggerfish appeared (in animated form) in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rascals".

Rhadamanthus

In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Magicks of Megas-tu, Rhadamanthus is invoked by the character Lucien in order to make the Enterprise operational in an alternate universe in which magic works like science does in our universe.

Rod Roddenberry

Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry is the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, who is best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek.

Roger Perry

One of his best known roles was that of Captain John Christopher in NBC's Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".

Roxann Dawson

In 1994, Dawson began her role as the half Human/half-Klingon engineer B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager which lasted for all seven seasons of the show.

Space Twins

Initially, the band was a small project in which the two would dress up in Star Trek style outfits with pipe-cleaner antennae, playing silly songs at kids' birthday parties.

Space: 2099

Space: 2099 was also the title of an unrelated project spearheaded by Eric Bernard, a fan of the original series who intended to retool it with a goal similar to that accomplished with other science-fiction series such as Star Trek or The Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition.

Spizzenergi

The BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel described "Where's Captain Kirk?" as... "the best Star Trek associated song".

Star lifting

The novel Star Trek: VoyagerThe Murdered Sun featured a reptilian race using the material from a star to sustain the opening of a wormhole.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch

Section 31: Abyss, (Jeffrey Lang and David Weddle, July 2001): Dr. Bashir is sent by shadowy intelligence agency Section 31 to deal with a rogue S31 agent who has taken control of a Jem'Hadar cloning facility abandoned by the Dominion after the war, and who, like Bashir, is genetically enhanced.

Star Trek: The Experience

With the on-screen participation of Trek series cast members Kate Mulgrew and Robert Picardo, and numerous actors in realistic makeup and utilizing well designed props and sets, the threat of assimilation by the Borg seems palpable.

Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy

Helmsman Hikaru Sulu fires a barrage of four torpedoes at what appears to be a false image of the Romulan vessel.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Steve Perrin

He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, and writing manuals for such computer games as Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, SimCity 2000, and Flight of the Intruder to name but a few.

Susan Sackett

Additionally, while working full-time as Roddenberry's assistant, Sackett wrote three books about Star Trek: Letters to Star Trek, Star Trek Speaks!, and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (with Gene Roddenberry).

The Eloquent Atheist

The magazine has conducted interviews with a variety of notables including the president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and host for Air America Radio Annie Laurie Gaylor, American author and writer for the Star Trek franchise Susan Sackett, and Executive Director for the American Humanist Association Roy Speckhardt.

The Way to Eden

McCoy's backstory was later incorporated into the novels Planet of Judgment and Shadows on the Sun.

Tracy Tormé

"The Royale" and "Manhunt" went through such significant rewrites and treatments before being filmed that Tormé insisted he not be credited directly; using the pen names Keith Mills and Terry Devereaux respectively.

Triannon

The Triannon, an alien race in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Chosen Realm"

Tyce Bune

Bune appeared numerous several mainstream film and television productions, including the film Mr. Saturday Night with Billy Crystal, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Schisms.

WNUV

At that time, channel 54 ran morning and afternoon children's programming similar to WBFF's Captain Chesapeake, hosted from a mock space ship by a Star Trek-like crew of characters known as the "54 Space Corps".

Xbox Games Store

Various films and TV shows wee available for purchase in the Video Store, including both past and present series, such as Star Trek and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.