140 Interesting Behind The Scenes Star Trek Facts 

I've been watching Star Trek shows since 1966. Lower Decks is a joy and will be greatly missed. Thanks to the writers and performers for that joy.

Nothing like looking at Marcus! Glad to see him in more than just a voice-over!

2:30:14 "Future BBQ enthusiast, René Picard....." TAKE AN LATINUM UP GOOD SIR! You had me spitting bloodwine!

The theme song lyrics are not a "Secret that Took Years to Discover;" they were published in 1968 in "The Making of Star Trek," by Stephen Whitfield -- while the series was still in production.

but no for real you guys, stop playing as federation from star trek online and go play Romulan republic, Empress Sella is alive and really evil

At 11:09, Brennan isn't Spock's half sibling; She"s adopted.

19:50 - Incorrect. Nichols had appeared on documentaries all the way back in the 1990's telling the MLK story. I forget if it was the "Star Trek Memories" or the 25th Anniversary Special, but it was definitely one of those VHS releases (if not both). LONG before 2011

If you didn’t get the Enterprise theme, you aren’t thinking very deeply. The point was that Enterprise was closer to our time, culturally if not chronologically, and they chose a theme that reflected that.

"I've got faith" is my favourite star trek opening. Fight me.

I don't know if this has been spotted before but here goes just in case. In an episode of next generation Picard demonstrates to Moriarty what happens if he leaves the holladec by throwing a book out of the entrance. But in Farpoint Wesly Crusher comes out of the holladec soaking wet after falling in the made up stream but as he comes out into the hall he is still wet. Should he not be dry?

Anyone who watches over 2 hours of behind the scenes Star Trek info has already seen Star Trek 2 and 3 TOS. I don't think spoilers r a thing in decades old movies videos

The exploding Bird of Prey was almost as overused as the Klingon getting sucked into space... lol

As always thank you Marcus and friends so very much for the videos. (I hope Ellie is feeling better.)

I enjoyed Star Trek 5. But that's because I worked with George Murdock for 16 months in a play in LA. I absolutely loved his voice! And he was personally very charming.

Rick Berman liked "Faith of the Heart," thats why it became the Enterprise theme song. Archer's theme became the music for the end credits.

Martok is one of my two favorite Klingons through all of Trek. Christopher Plummer's General Chang is the other. Both men made their Klingons so deeply layered and wonderful to watch.

I do a lot of hypothesising of what different meshups would look like. For example, a Defiant, the size of the Enterprise-F But, with nacels from voyager that move up and down. No seperatable saucer, but it would be a very fast and sleek powerhouse with a size advantage. (Edit for mispeling)

I have to agree with your early comments about T'Pol not getting much respect as a character, being physically emphasized and having a rough story line through the series. I have commented before how I feel about another character, Seven of Nine, who I really liked. She was an excellent idea, but was ultimately portrayed as a sexually distracting character with ever inconsistent qualities. So sometimes she's super strong, sometimes she's almost as weak as a human. They made this mistake with both vulcans and the favorite borg. You cover too wide a range of mistakes for me to fully wrap my head around, but I have my own list that complements or agrees with you. In my estimation of the Star Trek franchise, Nemesis (death of Data), Picard, the dark dimension hopping series I refuse to think about so effectively that I forgot its name (just remembered, Discovery), and the new reboot movies were all complete failures that should be stricken from the official timeline. For all of the actors skill and their great potential, these are the items that I saw or saw the first season and was so disturbed at where the writers were going that I lost all interest and either wanted to never see them again or never see the end of a given series. The sad thing is the creators already got what they wanted, money and attention, and have no incentive to care how badly they ruined the affected community of interest. Since I love Star Trek in general, I can at least continue watching the shows they didn't condemn to oblivion. The original movies up to Insurrection, original Star Trek, sort of, Strange New Worlds, Enterprise, Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, maybe some of the animated series. I'm not sure what they are doing with Starfleet Academy, so no comment. There is plenty of content worth commending, despite the timeline ending failures.

I really like this Deep Dive into BTS Trek facts.

On one of the Star Trek forums I used to be a member of, we called T'Pol "Seven of Kes".

I for one thought that theme song for Enterprise was terrible. But The absolute biggest worst mistakes in Trek were made by the studio executives who made the bad decision to cancel each of the Star Trek series that got the axe 🤬

12 mins in, and I had completely forgotten I was watching a "140 Things" list. Checked the time bar, 2 hrs 35 mins. Gonna have to pick this up later.

Enterprise season 3 not ending with Archer saying "oh boy" is a worse decision than the series finale

Fun fact: those red tube thingies also show up in the movie The Last Starfighter (and I'm sure others, but that's where I know them). They are in Star League High Command, and when we first meet Grig, he is messing with one as if it's doing... something. "And Trekies probably nitpick their favorite franchise far more than any other fans." *cough* Comic book fans... Though it's just kind of a nerd thing to do in general. We like pointing out the bad things while still enjoying it... mostly. That and getting angry at anything new, then begrudgingly accepting it, and eventually saying it wasn't so bad or even really good when something else new comes out to complain about.

9:17 - I feel like I'm one of only a handful of people who really liked Into Darkness. I think it's because I didn't compare one film to another and watched it as a self-standing universe. Opinions are valid, and I have mine -shrug-

The warp 10 barrier rule was broken in TOS. Season 2 Episode 3, "The Changeling". The robot thing "Nomad" made engineering changes that pushed the speed to a stated Warp 11 before Kirk got it to stop.

Nichelle Nichols actually tells the MLK story in the 25th anniversary special from 1991.

In re losing Majel Barrett's Number One -- the narrative that the network would not accept a female first officer was created by Roddenberry, but wasn't really the case. From several good books about the period, it's been revealed that the problem really was that Gene's relationship with Majel was an open secret throughout the studios and networks, and NBC found it highly inappropriate for the producer to "flaunt his mistress." It was more that the network brass had a personal problem with Gene, not so much that they had a resistance to showing strong female characters.

James Doohan had a missing finger and I never noticed!?

One of the best things to come out of Star Trek was the 70s/80s British scifi series Blakes 7. Series creator Terry Nation HATED Star Trek, and crafted his show as a partial parody, skewering Roddenberry's optimism with a HUGE dose of British cynicism. The show portrayed the Federation as a totalitarian dystopia whose (heavily drugged) citizens mostly think they are living in a free paradise, but with a growing undercurrent of dissatisfaction and resistance. The federation uniforms have a version of the Star Fleet delta on them (turned on its side) which also became the show's original logo, and Liberator, the heroes' ship, was basically a backwards, upside-down Enterprise with an extra nacelle. If Trek was 'Wagon Train', Blakes 7 was 'The Dirty Dozen' with a side order of 'Robin Hood'. Oh, and the heroes mostly never win. The show ran for 4 seasons (of variable quality) before ending with the bleakest finale ever (spoiler: all the good guys die, and the series' main villain not only gets off scot-free, but isn't even in the episode - the heroes are TPK'd by a mid-level boss).

Maybe the reason Savvik was colder in Serch for Spock was because she was morning Spock.

Oh man! Into Darkness is one of my favourites. Maybe it's me. I also like Nemesis.😅

Your tone of voice, when you said number one shaving the Klingons. It was epic.

I love the shows this post focuses on and I appreciate how they kindly phrase their observations as if I, too, was aware of their observations. =D Fun to see them, hadn't a clue previously.

the problem with the warp factor is that it got rescaled amongst the movies of the kirk crew. what is currenly warp 6 used to be like warp 13. the current warp 10 would have been like warp 30 back in kirks days before the rescale. so the warp 10 issue wasnt always a thing

12:45 - I learned of the TOS Theme lyrics when I was in junior high (early '70s). I bought and read The Making Of Star Trek by Stephen E Whitfield (pen name) that was originally published in 1968.

The Discovery klingons should have looked like the Klingons from Into Darkness. THAT was a good evolution of the klingons!

All all Star Trek fans would love to hear her original opening❤❤❤❤❤❤

I never notice the background stuff unless I see it directly. But like the lady in Data’s dream sequence or the person off to the side in the clip with Tuvok the wire on Shatner, didn’t see any of em.

There's a joke about British tv. It goes something like this. They only have 20 actors 12 sets and 8 props. Star trek should have something similar.

So Scotty and Zack (from Power Rangers) have alot in common. As I didn't notice both were missing a digit.

SO glad the second number seven didn’t happen.

I still don’t know why people think Enterprise’s theme is so bad. I’ve asked dozens of people what it is and their explanations have either been just thinly veiled complaints or nonsensical criticisms. Would someone please just give me a reason other than “You don’t like it”?

I wouldn't have minded Faith of the Heart if it had been an orchestra version of the song, it actually sounds reminiscent of a Star Trek theme when it's an orchestra version without sung lyrics, they missed an opportunity to use the song and still have it fit a Star Trek series by using the original version of the song.

1:46:09 Fun fact: Star Trek: Enterprise used iMac G3's for all of the computer terminals in the show.

6:30 I like Pulaski just as much.

The most reused prop in star trek is actually a different lamp. The aliens in star trek voyager “equinox” used the lamp to summon the aliens. Those lamps are even in the TOS, enterprise, voyager, tng

I love Duran story, esp S7. Normally, I don't like murder mysteries, but Duran made it interesting

1:27 threshold is an emmy award winning episode. . . . . . . . For makeup...

I never liked the Borg Queen. The noncentralized hive mind is scarier.

27:27 As far as Genevieve Bujold opting out of portraying Janeway, I personally think that it was for the better because her portrayal of Captain Janeway kinda put Janeway in a bad light, making her seeming to be rather cold and stand-offish

STAR TREK 4 = THE VOYAGE HOME!

Weren't the aliens who infiltrated the Federation in the TNG 'Conspiracy' arc originally supposed to be the Borg?

In the dvd's bonus the ladies that saw the pilot at the time were saying "who does she think she is?"

It was a mistake to invent Wesley Crusher. And Alexander. Molly was a sweetheart, however brief her appearance.

Yea, turns out Q wasn't showing the Enterprise what was out there, he was showing them what was already coming. Without Q's help the Borg would have arrived in Federation space to find the Federation unprepared for their arrival.

9:21 - I don't believe Benedict Cumberbatch was Khan. Khan Noonien Singh was born in Northern India, whereas the whiter than snow Cumberbatch was obviously.... not. But hear me out; My head canon is, Khan informed his fallowers, 'whomever was woken up first to pretend to be Khan, to protect Khan'. Well, Cumberbatch was the one who was woken up first, so he became Khan, while the real Khan was still in asleep stasis. And everything he did in the movie was to protect Khan and his fellow followers. Now if you go into the movie thinking this, the movie makes a heck of a lot more sense.

Oh dear, Marcus needs his ST badge removed - Star Trek IV - the undiscovered country? 51.08 in. Naughty 🤣

2:00 Robert Duncan McNeill likely felt he never signed up for a role that involved heavy makeup and prosthetics.

A lot of the mistakes I just create my own head canon for so they don’t really bother me. Lmao 🤷🏾‍♂️

The last episode of Enterprise should have been near the top or even number one on the list of mistakes. Placing the entire show as a program running on the hollodeck on Enterprise Generations. The crew interaction with Riker also tainted the last scene of Archer hugging T'pal. And the writers were so lazy that they tossed away the perfect ending of Archer's speach to open the Federation. Even placing his speach to the smaller group from earlier in the episode to the end of the last episode would have been preferable to a snide remark that the superior TNG counselor had memorized it years ago. Slap upon slap.

The theme was used in Star Trek The Motion Picture

@11:20 Technically, Michael is Spock's step-sister. If she was his half-sister they'd share DNA from his mother OR father.

In Skin of Evil, when Riker is pulled into the goop, you see the carriage where Riker lies upon. First time i've seen that was 20seconds ago, watching this video. (1h28m28s)

Totally agree, wr found out a lot more about Worf in DS9 that was interesting.

The best Enterprise theme song is by The Calling. (Wherever You Will Go)

Actually, the Temple cold war hasn't started yet.

Lower decks ssn5 for the loss. 8-(

Nice job...was an hour or more in before I noticed the time...😊

Gene also wanted Troi to have like 6 boobs or something... so Majel saying Gene wouldn't approve is not a great admonition. Gene also made the first Season of TNG the worst by wrongly stating that there would be no arguements between these boring bot-like people in the future... killing any drama for the series...

What if I told you seven of nine has a major role to play in the Temple cold war, she should meet t'pol

Not a swear word but Data's "There was a young woman from Venus, who's body was shaped like a ..... DATA!!!" .

those salamander creatures had children. children which potentially couldve been reverted back into human form JUST LIKE they did with Parisway. Or we simply leave them on that alien planet so they can die?

Who is Hurley?

Marcus is Back

They first tried to remake wrath of Khan in star trek nemesis. If you look at the plot points.

You can't really grumble about Trek reusing shots when this whole episode of TrekCulture is constructed of reused material.

Future Barbeque Entisiast ? ? Dude . . .

In the sections about profanity they forgot about the two times Captain Picard uses the French swear word Merde.

I enjoy this video.

Question, Is the "Planet Hell" set also the set that got full of cat shit between uses? That would definitely add to the actors discomfort even if it had been "scooped" before being used.

2 and a half hours okay nice

Thank you

Them lights in the unknown machine first appeared in airplane 2 the sequel with William Shatner

did you ever wonder what is in the silver bags Uhura had

I mean if we're talking mistakes, surely killing Jadzia should be on the list. No disrespect to Ezri mind.

using that language was used in world before the Starfleet time line

If they had accepted The Cage, Star Trek would have been very different, perhaps not as good. For one thing, in that alternate ST universe, Volcan was not the more advanced culture that mane first contact with Earth, Volcan was conquered by Earth.

Plus if they had gone to series with Pike maybe Jeffery Hunter wouldn't have died so young.

I like Enterprise intro. Stop talk bad about that :D

They are open TITLES, the CREDITS are at the end.

I’ve got faith. Faith of the heart. Now you’ll have that stuck in your head all day long.

How about how Worf hasn't won a game of poker since "The Emissary?" Sounds like a Section 31 operation. What's up with Data and Geordi ridiculing Worf after loosing after each time?

There's a district lack of a save lower decks video.

Genesis wave with the Excelsior?

Hi, I may have missed it. Has it been addressed here at TrekCulture (or anywhere official) at all that Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 has been released in France and we haven't heard even a whisper from Netflix on it's release?

1:24:30 Airplane 2

I fucking love "fairh of the heart" and im sick of pretending otherwise

The biggest mistake was every word that's ever been spoken in Discovery

oh f**k that was a long episode.