Star Trek references in the World of Warcraft
Wait, what? Star Trek is now cool you say? What is my nerdy self going to cling to? What's going to make a geek above other geeks as I recite the Klingon alphabet backwards in the Qo'noS dialect? Oh wait, there's WoW! And what's more geeky than taking a look at all the Star Trek references in the game?Well, the answer is not much.
But that's okay, because it's geek-chic, or whatever those babbling idiots on What Not To Wear say.
So take a look my geeky bretheren, all the Star Trek references in the World of Warcraft after thy break.
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Area 52 "Doc" Says "Damnit Boots, I'm a doctor not a priest!" in reference to Dr. McCoy. Shown after you turn in the quest That Little Extra Kick. |
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Area 52 NPCs All the ones working on the rocket are wearing gold shirts and black pants, a reference to the color worn by all the Engineering staff in TNG. |
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Bashir's landing Bashir's Landing is an area out in Blade's Edge Mountains where an NPC invasion event occurs. The area is named after Dr. Bashir from DS9. |
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Chief Engineer Trep Chief Engineer Trip Tucker from Star Trek: Enterprise, lives in Area 52. |
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Dax hosts in Exodar Curzon, Tobin, Emony, and Audrid are all characters in Exodar and represent the hosts of Dax from DS9. You remember Dax, right? It's just a slimy little worm that lives next to your stomach. |
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Druid near Cenarion Thicket The Druid randomly yells out: "There are four lights!" In Chain of Command, a two part TNG episode, Picard's Cardassian tormenter constantly asks him how many lights there are. Picard insists there are four. The scene in Star Trek is a reference to the novel 1984, where the line is "There are four fingers." |
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Etherlithium Matrix Crystals You deliver the crystals for the quest Report to Engineering in Netherstorm. They are a reference to the Dilithium Matrix Crystals which regulates the antimatter flow that powers ships in the Star Trek universe. |
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Jhordy Lapforge A reference to Chief Engineer Geordie La Forge from TNG. Lapforge lives in Gadgetzan. |
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Lenny "Fingers" McCoy Back alley in Stormwind's Old Town, reference to Dr. Leonard McCoy of the original series. |
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Nogg Nogg's Machine Shop in Orgrimmar, named after Nogg from DS9. |
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Scooty in Booty Bay Scooty transports Horde players to Mister Sprock in Gnomeregan. Reference, of course, to Scotty from the original series. He was the chief engineer of the Enterprise. It should be noted that in-game, he is wearing his Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home gear. |
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Smiles O'Byron A reference to Miles O'Brien from TNG and DS9. He was the transporter technician in TNG, and was promoted to Chief Engineer in DS9. |
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Sprok Sprock accepts transport of players at Gnomeregan from Scooty in Booty Bay. Sprock is a reference to the famous Spock, a green blooded pointy eared Vulcan. |
Side note: Everyone on the day-to-day staff had seen Star Trek by Friday evening except Alex. Is this the worst or the worsest thing that has ever happened on WoW Insider?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Obono May 10th 2009 2:09PM
Surprised that there is no Kirk or Picard references ingame.
Kvothe May 10th 2009 7:16PM
Not having Kirk or Picard references in WoW is nothing compared to the fact that there are absolutely ZERO references to Star Trek: Voyager. Boo hoo, the captains of TNG and TOS don't make any cameos... They left out an entire series of Star Trek! They have Enterprise (the worst Star Trek series) references, but they completely ignore Voyager, arguably the best series? I don't think so. The least they could have done was have some robots named Six of Nine or something. At least that way even non-Trekies could laugh at something.
AyaJulia May 10th 2009 7:36PM
@Kvothe: Keep reading the comments, hm? There's at least one Voyager reference missed by this post.
Kvothe May 10th 2009 7:50PM
Ok, you're right. There is one Voyager reference in WoW. I didn't know it, and true, I did not read all of the comments. My fault.
Superthrust May 10th 2009 9:44PM
@Kvothe,
I think i seen one for Tuvac out in Outland or NR...i can't really remember. Anyways, it could be Tuvac or Tupac...lol
unigolyn May 11th 2009 12:51PM
Someone who thinks Voyager was better than Enterprise. Now I've seen everything.
Gadava May 11th 2009 4:15PM
I have a screenshot somewhere from alpha/beta. The boat npc in Menthil Harbor was named "Captain Kirk".
And the goblin boat captain in Booty Bay was named "Captain Crunch".
This was back where the boats were broken and the NPC would just teleport you to the destination dock.
Gallifrei May 11th 2009 6:32PM
Enterprise the worst? Voyager the best? Rawhat? Reverse that, then you'll be spot on. I'm not sure what your criterion are, but, try this: Compare Voyager's stiff acting, incredibly hammy dialogue, horribly predictable plots, and crazy techno-speak 30 second resolutions to Enterprise's great acting, believable plots, and relatable and identifiable dialogue, I bet you will forget for a minute how much of a fanboy you are, and remember that Voyager can't be forgiven these sins because it was A) not produced in the 60s like ToS and B) not novel at the time like ToS. (That's excluding the unforgivable concept of a temporal cold-war, of course).
ttvp May 10th 2009 2:11PM
I would never have known 75% of those were star trek references as I have never seen (or honestly cared about) any of the shows/movies. Good eye though, a lot more than I expected.
Bubsa May 10th 2009 2:17PM
Why is Spock considered 'infamous', by the author?
As far as I'm aware, he's one of the greatest Trek protagonists of all.
(TNG > all, btw)
Fingal May 10th 2009 3:29PM
In-famous is when you're more than famous.
"This man El Guapo is not just famous, he's IN-famous."
trogdor7 May 10th 2009 3:42PM
No, Infamous is when you're famous for something bad. Say Jesse James, he's infamous. But Albert Einstein is just famous. Spock definitely isn't infamous.
vazhkatsi May 10th 2009 4:07PM
not exactly, infamous suggest being famous, but for shady reasons. al capone was infamous, abe lincoln is not.
Turbonutz May 10th 2009 4:08PM
Three Amigos FTW!
Bubsa May 10th 2009 5:06PM
Fingal wins the replies, I must say
NoTomorrow May 10th 2009 5:46PM
Fingal is right.
Don't correct people (trogdor) if you don't know it yourself.
recoveringcynic May 10th 2009 6:23PM
From Wikipedia:
"Infamy, in common usage, is notoriety gained from a negative incident or reputation (as opposed to fame). The word stems from the Latin infamia, antonym of fama (fame)."
From Webster.com:
"Infamy - 1: evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal2 a: an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act b: the state of being infamous."
Trogdor is correct.
Abaddon May 10th 2009 6:54PM
For those of you retards who dont get it, Fingal was using a quote from the movie The Three Amigos.
jbodar May 11th 2009 2:38AM
Seriously, who doesn't remember that movie? I know it's hard to recall when Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase were still funny, but come ON!
Ed May 10th 2009 2:17PM
It should also be noted that the cheerful looking "Smiles O'Bryon" has a similar name to the nickname of the mirror universe, evil, counterpart to Miles O'Brien (Smiley) - the lack of facial hair could make this a coincidence, all the same...