Trivia: Interestingly, Trelane put Kirk on trial in his courtroom. In Star Trek: The Next Generation S1 : Ep1 "Encounter at Farpoint", Q played judge in an apocalyptic courtroom, putting Picard and the human race on trial.
Movie Nut
28th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
28th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Trivia: Even though it is revealed that Trelane uses a machine to augment his powers, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "Q Squared" it is revealed that Trelane and his parents are members of the Q Continuum. It is also revealed the the power that Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner gained in S1 :Ep3, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was Q himself trying to get back into this universe but was suspended in the area outside the galaxy in an energy form.
28th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
28th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
27th Jun 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Descent (1) - S6-E26
Trivia: Admiral Nechayev tells Picard that the Starship Gorkon will be her flagship. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Chancellor of the High Klingon Council was named Gorkon.
22nd Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair - S9-E12
Trivia: The scene in Stewie's room when the duplicate Stewie appears in the machine (along with familiar sound effects and dramatic music) is paying homage to the Star Trek original series S1:Ep 5, "The Enemy Within".
22nd Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
22nd Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Trivia: This was the second pilot for the series, the first pilot being done with Jeffrey Hunter as Capt. Christopher Pike. This is also the first episode that has William Shatner as the famous Capt. James T. Kirk. The episode was made at the request of Lucille Ball, part owner of Desilu Studios, and friend to Gene Roddenberry, because she believed in the franchise.
14th Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks - S2-E11
Trivia: As Peter and Meg walk, the walking music of The Flintstones is heard. Then the background of The Flintstones appears next to the Trump Tower.
14th Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
Trivia: As Peter conducts a tour of reporters around the school, they come upon a scene in the hallway. He introduces the Hall Monitor X-L-K. It requests a hall pass from a girl, fails to recognize the pass, makes a second request, fails to see the pass, and opens fire, chasing the girl back to class. This scene was borrowed from Robocop (1987) when ED-209 was introduced, and had the same type of malfunction.
7th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
The Gamesters of Triskelion - S2-E16
Trivia: The dagger that Uhura's drill thrall has on is the same model seen in S2: Ep 4: "Mirror, Mirror."
7th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
The Trouble With Tribbles - S2-E15
Trivia: Captain Koloth was played by William Campbell, who also played the fan favorite Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos." Almost twenty-seven years later, he reprised the role of Koloth in the DS9 episode "Blood Oath."
3rd May 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
3rd May 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
Trivia: Ted Cassidy (Lurch) was an accomplished organist, but only mimed playing the Harpsichord. Also, before he was Lurch, Ted was a weatherman.
26th Apr 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
The Addams Family Tree - S1-E5
Trivia: In the quick cut scene, Thing comes out and grabs the mail from the letter carrier. This is a re-use of the scene from the pilot episode "The Addams Family Goes to School."
26th Apr 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
Trivia: In this episode, as Gomez begs Fester to kill him, Fester says "You're my favorite nephew." In the first Addams Family movie (1991), we hear that Fester and Gomez are brothers.
26th Apr 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
Trivia: Although everybody knows all of the Addams Family members' names, none of them had their now-familiar names when Charles Addams created them for the New Yorker magazine. It was when the idea was pitched to the television executives that the names were created. Coincidentally, the Addams Family and The Munsters debuted the same week, and were cancelled the same week two years later.
26th Apr 2016
The Addams Family (1964)
30th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
The Man Trap - S1-E2
Trivia: The phaser pistol Crater has is from the pilot episode with Captain Pike.
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Trials and Tribble-ations - S5-E6
Trivia: In this episode, Sisko, Dax, Bashir, and O'Brien are talking about the amount of Tribbles, and Dax gives the total as 1,771,561, and the explanation behind the total. The conversation was an exact copy of the one between Lurry, Kirk and Spock in the original episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" (TOS, S2: E15).
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