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*** It will have a sibling ship called ''VSS [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]''.
** In the mid 1990s you could go out and buy yourself a functional [http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html tricorder]. There was a clause in Gene Roddenberry's contract that anyone who could make a working Tricorder was allowed to call it that; a now defunct Canadian company produced the "TR-107 Tricorder Mark I." It was about the size of a huge novelty universal remote, was done up to look like a TNG tricorder and loaded with the appropriate sound effects, and could detect EM fields, barometric pressure, temperature, light values and colour values.
*** An Android smartphone developer known as [http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder moonblink] made a Tricorder app which used the phone's built-in GPS, microphone, wifi, and other functionality to actually scan for and detect magnetic fields, sound levels, and so on. All was well and fans had defictionalized tricorders, until [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005191955/http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-moonblinks-android-tricorder-app-2011097/ CBS made them take the app down].
*** Real tricorders are being [https://web.archive.org/web/20130614085818/http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/03/this-is-a-real.php developed again.]
** [[Eddie Izzard]] has used a variant on this line in several of his shows; "Those doors from ''[[Star Trek]]''? (He may, or may not, make the door-opening noise at this point) We've got them now!"
** "Far Beyond the Stars," a fictional 1950s scifi novel from the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode of the same name, was actually written and released after the fact as part of Paramount's [[Tie-in Novel]] line.
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