4. Leonard Nimoy recorded music, both silly and serious.
He started out with novelty songs sung as Spock but ended up doing a folk album with love songs.
5. The actress voicing the computer became a computer IRL.
Majel Barrett recorded her voice phonetically before she died, so they could make her into a voice assistant or use her to voice the computer in upcoming Star Trek series.
6. The Next Generation had an awful episode where a cult grabs Wesley.
7. Star Trek Into Darkness is a 9/11 truther movie.
Not only does the plot parallel 9/11 conspiracy theories, but these are theories that the screenwriter actually appears to believe based on what he previously said.
8. Canada changed its money, so Star Trek vandalism is harder.
On the earlier bills, fans engaged in “Spocking Fives“—drawing over the portrait on the bill to make the guy look like Spock.
9. Nostalgia is destroying the franchise’s future
Today’s Star Trek shows are more concerned with flashing you with iconography you recognize than telling the sort of stories Star Trek fans want.
10. A hero scientist passed off an episode as a scientific paper.
He submitted a paper claiming to have subjected humans to Warp 10, mutating them, not revealing this was just the plot of the episode “Threshold.” The journal published it.