🖖 Star Trek Fun Facts

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• The Vulcan salute was inspired by Leonard Nimoy's childhood memories of a Jewish priestly blessing gesture.
• "Beam me up, Scotty" is one of pop culture's most famous Trek quotes, but that exact phrase was never spoken in the original series.
• Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry's wife, voiced many Federation computers across multiple Star Trek series.
• The communicator helped inspire real-world flip-phone design decades later. Starfleet: still ahead of procurement.
• The Klingon language became so developed that real books, translations, and conversations exist in Klingon.
• Captain Picard's favorite drink is Earl Grey tea — hot. Naturally, this page recommends serving it with maximum uptime.
• Deep Space Nine used serialized storytelling more heavily than earlier Trek shows, paving the way for modern TV arcs.