Marta was an Orion inmate at the Federation asylum on Elba II. She served as Garth's queen until he blew her to bits by demonstrating a new explosive.

The Caretaker was the Nacene entity who assumed responsibility for protecting the Ocampa. Some called him "Banjo Man", since he communicated with the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager in the form of an elderly man playing a banjo.

Kirk receives reading glasses as a birthday gift from Bones, but he doesn't seem to appreciate the gesture.

According to Star Trek Blueprints, there's a giant bowling alley on Deck 21, next to the "Refreshments Area" and the "Food and Beverages Preparation Facility."

In the teaser trailer, sonorous narrator Orson Welles called the TV show "a common experience remembered around the world" and promised, "Now Paramount Pictures brings the memory to life."

When Hawking guest starred in "Descent: Part 1" (1993), during season 6 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he paused in front of the warp core set piece and remarked, "I'm working on that."

Plots involving the Enterprise traveling beyond warp 10 popped up occasionally in the original series (such as warp 14.1 in "That Which Survives"--the result of runaway engines which brought the hull within seconds of structural failure), but for The Next Generation it was decided that these would no longer be featured since anything beyond warp 10.0 would theoretically send the crew backwards in time.

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek films are just as famous for lens flares as they are for being ruthlessly entertaining slices of sci-fi cinema. In Star Trek: Into Darkness he tries to overdose us, using the effect an astonishing 826 times.

Most male Vulcan names begin with "S" and most female names with a "T" followed by an apostrophe.

Spock was born in 2230, in the city of Shi'Kahr on the planet Vulcan.