Kirk Thatcher, an associate producer of the film, played the punk on the bus, and also wrote the song ("I Hate You") the punk is listening to on his boombox. Submitted by wizard_of_gore

The aircraft carrier that Uhura and Chekov find is actually the USS Ranger, standing in for the USS Enterprise. The Enterprise was at sea during filming. Submitted by Cubs Fan

When Spock is taking the tests at the beginning, watch the questions he is given, in slow motion. Some are trivia questions about the original series.

Eddie Murphy was originally planned to take the role of the 20th Century Terran who assists the Enterprise crew in their efforts to retrieve the Whales. He would have played an English teaching college professor who believes in extra-terrestrials and witnesses the Enterprise crew's arrival when they materialise above a football game being watched by Murphy. While everyone else believed it to be a special effect for the game, Murphy would believe it was E.T.s arriving on Earth. This plan was eventually abandoned when the studio realised that they could make more money by keeping the two franchises separate and making a Trek film and a Murphy film. In the completed film, Murphy's character was changed to a female marine biologist and played by Catherine Hicks (although many of the scenes written for Murphy's character were used, if slightly altered).

The Cetacean Institute is really the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey Bay, California; the Institute's logo also belongs to the Aquarium

The scene in which Chekov and Uhura ask people on the street where Alameda is was basically unscripted. Most of the people, except a few who were hired to react, were actual pedestrians, and the policeman was hired only to be bodyguard to the actors. Leonard Nimoy only gave Walter Koenig directions to repeat "nuclear wessels" load and clear, and then sat back with the camera in a 'Candid Camera' type manner.