Gene Roddenberry once hypothesized that the Enterprise carried a platoon of Starfleet Marines, but they never appeared onscreen in the original series. Starfleet Marines would eventually make an appearance, but not until The Undiscovered Country.
The classic line "Beam me up, Scotty" was never actually delivered. The phrase comes from the command Captain Kirk gives to his transporter chief when he wanted to return to the ship. The closest he came to saying it was "Scotty, beam us up" in the original series..
The line "to boldly go where no man has gone before" was taken almost verbatim from a White House booklet on space issued after the Sputnik flight in 1957. It's also the world's best-known example of a split infinitive - to be grammatically correct it should say "to go boldly".
The flip open communicator that crew used to talk to the Enterprise has been credited as an early design model for the mobile phone. A real-life version of the hand-held phaser that went from stun to kill - hence the "phasers on stun" order - is said to be being developed by the US military..
Preparing for the role of Spock, actor Zachary Quinto shaved his eyebrows and dyed his hair - then admitted he felt like "a nerd".
A study found that children learn more about science from Star Trek than from any other source..
Some of the ashes of both Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and James Doohan, who played chief engineer "Scotty" have since been blasted into space aboard NASA rockets.
Captain James T. Kirk's middle name is Tiberius..
Joan Collins had a role in 1967 episode The City On The Edge Of Forever in which the crew time-travel back to Earth.
She played a social worker who Kirk falls in love with - but has to let die. If he didn't she would change history... and Hitler would win World War 2..
Gene Roddenberry's wife Majel Barrett was the voice of the ship's computer.
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