Star Trek In-Jokes...

Ok..i read this off Empire website...something for people to read...and a little spoiler for those who has not watched it yet...here is the link if u r interested to read it off that page...it will be exactly the same here...except for some pictures that is=P

JJ Abrams' reinvention f Star Trek manages the difficult trick of keeping the existing fans happy while also thrilling the die-hards. Part of the reason he's so successful is his use of in-jokes: they keep the Trekkers entertained but don't slow down the action for everyone else. So here are a few that we picked up on: did you spot them?

1. "Tiberius? That's the worst!"
Now we know the origin of Jmes T. Kirk's distinctive middle name - it's that of his paternal grandfather. Had the fans ever been in doubt about the identity of the baby just born, this exlamation by his father, Gordon Kirk, put it to rest.

2. Spock's Ma
Amanda Grayson, Spock's mother, was a human schoolteacher who met and married his father Sarek when the latter was Vulcan ambassador to Earth. She previously appeared in the original series, animated spin-off and Star Treks IV and V, and is now p;ayed by Winona Ryder.

3. Uhura's Name
Kirk asks Uhura repeatedly what her first name is, but she consistently refuses to tell him. We learn later in the film that it is, in fact, Nyota, which means "star' in Swahili. Uhura's forst name was never mentioned during the run of the show; it was proposed by Star Trek novelist William Rotsler years later, and agreed by both Roddenberry and Nichols.

4. Slusho
This isn't a Star Trek in-joke so much as a JJ Abrams in-joke: both Alias and Cloverfield, which he produced, contained references to slushy drink Slusho. And here it is on the menu in a Star Trek cantina bar (along with Saurian brandy, another old Star Trek prop). Look out too for a huge ad on the side of a building for the Tagruato Corporation, another Abrams gag, and Alias' Greg Grunberg's voice as Kirk's stepfather.

5. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
Leonard's always been known as 'Bones' in the show, which was generally accepted to be an abbreviation of 'sawbones', the old slang term for a doctor. But here he tells Kirk on their first meeting that, following a bitter divorce, he's been left with "nothin' but ma bones" - and that's presumably the origin of the moniker.

6. Orion Slave Girl
It's a standing Star Trek joke that Captain Kirk always wooed and won a succession of ladies distinguishable only by their skin colour. One of the most famous varieties are the Orion "slave girls" or (even less PC) "animal women", famed for their irresistible pheromones and appetities. In a later PC-revision, they later turned out to be their own slavers, so that's OK then. In this movie, Kirk beds one (Rachel Nichols) who's a fellow Starfleet cadet.

7. Captain Pike
Star Trek pilot 'The Cage' did not feature Shatner, using Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, immortalised in Trek lore as Kirk's predecessor aboard the Enterprise - so it's a neat twist here to have Bruce Greenwood appear in the role, as a mentor to Kirk. As a further nod, note that when Pike sits down in the iconic captain's chait he gets the same key light across the eyes that Kirk always did.

8. Vulcan Science Academy
We learned, in the original series episode Journey To Babel, that Spock turned down a place at the Vulcan Science Academy in favour of joinin Starfleet agaisnt the wishes of his father, producing an estrangement between them. And look! Here it is. Apparently he's the only person ever to turn down this prestigious place.

9. Kobayashi Maru Test
Even non-Trekkers may remember the barnstorming opening of the Wrath of Khan, wherein the Enterprise, captained by an unfamiliar Vulcan woman, was apparently detroyed by Klingons. It was later revealed to be a deliberately no-win training scenario - and Kirk was revealed to be the only cadet ever to have beater it, by cheating. And now we see what he did...

10. Green- blooded Bastard
This is kinda subtle: freshly reprimanded by Commander Spock, Kirk mutteringly calls him a "green- blooded bastard", only for a grinning McCoy to counter "I kinda like him." It's a neat reversal of the tradional Spock- Kirk- McCoy relationship, with McCoy defending Spock against Kirk instead of Kirk defending him from McCoy

11. The Man In The Red Suit
It's a truth universally acknowledged: if you want to suvive Star Trek, don't a) call yourself Tasha Yar; b) wear a red shirt unless you're Scotty. Unfortunately for him, Chief Engineer Olsen wasn't informed, heading off on an away mission with Kirk and Sulu while wearing the fatal hue. And promptly buys the farm.

12. Sulu Can Fence
The original series never gave much clur to Hikaru Sulu's off- duty interest, but we do know that he liked fencing. Famously, the original series episode The Naked Time saw him under the grip of the "Psi 2000" virus, which led him to think he was D'Artagnan and chase crew members around the ship armed with a foil. When asked what hand-to-hand combat experience he claims here, it's fencing that he admits to.

13. Uhura And Spock, Up A Tree...
This was hinted at early on in the original series, before TV network executives realised that there was an interracial romance happening under their noses and put a stop to it - and now it's restored to the film. Of course, the series famously showed US TV's forst inter- racial kiss (in a scripted show) in the episode Plato's Stepchildren, but Uhura and Kirk there were under alien mind-control so it doesnt really count.

14. Set Phasers To Stun
Another iconic line, this time spoken by Spock as a mutinous Kirk returns to the bridge of the Enterprise. Note the nifty flicking caps to the phasers in this film, which you can see best during the fire fight abord Nero's ship. And beware: they could be closer to reality than you might think.

15. The Trouble With Tribbles
One of the funniest episodes of the original series featured these rapidly multiplying furballs, which might be cute but which quickly threatened the Enterprise through sheer numbers. Still, in small portions they make good pets - which is why Scotty keeps one on his desk in his exile on Delta Vega.

16. "Admiral Archer's beagle"
Apparently Scotty was exiled to his Hoth- like planet because of a transporter experiment he did on "Admiral Archer's beagle", leaving it trapped in subspace. This is a double joke: not only does it sneakily refer to Scott Bakula's Captain Archer from the series Enterprise and his dog Porthos, but also set to please the many fans who hated the adorable beagle.

17. Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor!
McCoy's obvious proud of his medical degree, as he is extremely fond of reminding people that his is a doctoc as opposed to, for example, a moon shuttle conductor, bricklayer, psychiatrist, escalator, engineer, scientist, mechanic, magician or coal miner. Expect cheers as Karl Urban's McCoy spits out the famous line.

18. Out Of The Chair!
The first time that Kirk ever takes teh Captain's chair here, he instantly sinks into his familiar pose - one leg thrust out, slightly leaning to one side, one hand up by his face, the better to muse with. Only this time he's not the captain, and Spock abruptly orders him, "Out of the chair!"