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Trivia about Star Trek (film) includes:
- Fake American: Kiwi Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy. And pulling it off so well that he is almost indistinguishable from the Atlanta-born DeForest Kelley.
- To the point that Leonard Nimoy was moved to tears at how much Karl Urban reminded him of his departed friend.
- Fake Nationality:
- Englishman Simon Pegg as Scotty, who is, well, Scottish (though James Doohan was Canadian, so this might be closer).
- Dominican/Puerto Rican-American Zoe Saldana as African-born Uhura (though Nichelle Nichols is straight-up African American so this isn't really any different)
- Canadian Bruce Greenwood as American Christopher Pike.
- Interestingly, the most blatant example from the original series is averted. Leningrad-born but American-raised Anton Yelchin plays Chekov, originally played by American Walter Koenig with a fairly ridiculous Fake Accent. (In homage, Yelchin kept the accent.)
- Hey, It's That Guy!:
- Tyler Perry as the commandant of Starfleet Academy;
- Cameron is Kirk's mother;
- Sylar is Spock;
- Lydia Deetz as Amanda Grayson;
- Harold Abrahams/Barnabas Collins as Sarek;
- Eomer of the Riddermark is McCoy;
- Harold is Sulu;
- And Sulu is the MILF Guy. Or maybe he's just having an exceptionally long flash forward...
- Hector is Nero;
- Let's not forget it's not the only time he's been a time-traveler!
- Kyle Reese from T4 is Chekov!
- Shaun / Nicholas Angel as Scotty;
- Nowhere Man as Captain Pike;
- Raza is Captain Robau;
AnamariaNeytiri is Uhura;- Scarlett is Uhura's Green-Skinned Space Babe roommate;
- James Cawley, who plays Kirk in the fan series Star Trek Phase II appears in a walk-on role.
- Randy Pausch, the late professor from "The Last Lecture", has a brief walk on role aboard the USS Kelvin. Mostly done as a nod to one of his childhood dreams of "Being Captain Kirk."
- Kirk's Dad is THOR, GOD OF THUNDER!
- Paul McGillion was on screeen for 10 seconds — enough to be noticed and Squee'd at.
- Agent Kim cameos as a Starfleet instructor.
- Chris Doohan, son of original Scotty actor James Doohan, plays Scotty's assistant in the Enterprise transporter room. He and his brother Montgomery had previously appeared as extras in Star Trek the Motion Picture.
- And the next evolutionary step for Oompa-loomps
- The young Captain Kirk managed to survive a sinking ship in 2006.
- Groves got demoted to Red Shirt.
- and in the sequel, the villain is going to be Sherlock Holmes.
- Hey, It's That Voice!:
- The late Majel Barrett Roddenberry reprises her role as the Computer Voice one last time.
- And Kirk's stepdad who's yelling at him on the car phone is Matt Parkman!
- Wesley Crusher himself is the voice of all the male Romulans except Nero and Ayel.
- And Victor Garber is a Klingon in a deleted scene (he never takes his helmet off, so it's this trope)!
- Younger tropers will know Captain Pike as the Goddamn Batman.
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