Star Trek Into Darkness

Trivia: As Kirk, Spock, and Uhura head to the shuttle bay for their mission to Kronos to capture Khan, Sulu orders crew to prepare the vessel that was confiscated in the Mudd incident. This is a reference to Harry Mudd, a roguish character who appeared in the original Star Trek series in the episodes titled,"I, Mudd" and "Mudd's Women." Harry Mudd, played by Roger C. Carmel, was the only non-regular character to appear in more than one episode on the original Star Trek series. Carmel was slated to reprise the role in Star Trek: TNG, but he died before the episode could be filmed. (00:44:25)

raywest

Trivia: The library that is bombed is called the "Kelvin Memorial Archive," a reference to the destruction of the U.S.S. Kelvin seen in the first film. (00:18:05)

Trivia: During the conversation between Admiral Marcus and Kirk, right after Marcus shows up in his new ship, look at the display over Kirk's left shoulder. It's out of focus, but looks like 1701 and the name GENE. In other views of the display, it looks like the letters C and O. Not sure if it was deliberate, but interesting if it was an homage to Gene Rodenberry.

GeneJ

Trivia: When Kirk is talking to Admiral Marcus about why he was scanning his ship, he has what looks like the shape of the Star Fleet insignia on his right cheek from a wound.

Tricia Webster

Trivia: Admiral Marcus is looking at models of various air and spacecraft that were very important to history. These include (in approximate order) the Wright flier, an early propeller plane, a V2, what appears to be a Bell X-1A, sputnik, a Mercury space capsule, a space shuttle, the upcoming Space Launch System (SLS), an unknown spacecraft (which might be also referenced in Star Trek the Motion Picture), Zephram Cochram's ship the Phoenix (and presumably the version immediately after that), NX-01, the USS Kelvin, and the Vengeance.

Laurence Ruberl

Factual error: Enterprise and Vengeance come out of warp near the moon, 237,000km from Earth. Due to their altercation. They lose power and proceed to fall freely toward Earth. The scene plays as though it takes a matter of a few minutes, too fast to get the situation under control. At that distance, the gravity acceleration from Earth would only be .01 m/sec/sec. This means that they should have had approximately 2.52 days before crashing, especially given their apparent relative stop as per the visible moon.

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Question: Why does Khan have to be alive for McCoy to use his blood to save Kirk? The blood will be removed from its supply anyway when drawn.

Quantom X

Chosen answer: McCoy has no real idea how much blood he's going to need to bring Kirk back - given the catastrophic radiation damage to his body, there's every possibility that he might need multiple transfusions over a period of time, which would be much easier if Khan was still alive. Plus there's also the issue that killing Khan could well involve spilling some of the blood that McCoy so desperately needs. Bringing Khan in alive is the best way to maximise their chances.

Tailkinker

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