Have you ever had one of those moments where you just realized, “Holy crap, I’m a geek”?

I had one yesterday. I’m a scifi geek. Here’s some random trivia I know that’s completely useless.

Star Wars:
- Episode IV :: The Stormtrooper assigned to guard the Millenium Falcon on the Death Star (I) was numbered TK421. Hence the quote, “TK421, why aren’t you at your post?”
- Episode V :: Lando Calrissian originally lost the Millenium Falcon to Han Solo in a high stakes card game. Cloud City’s chief export and the source of Lando’s riches is the clouds on Bespin, which contain many valuable gasses and minerals. The Snowspeeders on Hoth are modified A-wings that are cheaper to operate and build, but are incapable of space-flight.
- Episode VI :: Leia’s alter-ego that she attempted to save Han from Jabba the Hutt using was named Boushh, an Ubese bounty hunter.

Star Trek
- Original Series :: In the original Pilot for the series, the Captain of the USS Enterprise was not Captain Kirk, nor was he played by William Shatner. The actor who played this original captain later played a cameo in the series, in an episode which contained clips from the original pilot.
- TNG :: Jean-Luc Picard had no direct family, but had a nephew, Renee, who then died in a fire. Geordi laForge has twice had a bug in his visor, which at one point transmitted straight, color-spectrum images to a group of renegade Klingons, but at an earlier point in the series it transmitted infrared heat spectrums. How on earth he can deal with a cold ship control panel if he sees infrared only is beyond me.

Firefly
- Series :: In the cockpit of Serenity, to the right and above Wash’s seat were three switches, which made really nice clicky sounds, so Alan Tudyk made them his “Getting ready to do something” switches. He would flip all three just before he did anything.
- Serenity :: In the end of the film, when Mal is piloting the ship, just after River has started the takeoff sequence, but just before he prepares to break atmo, he flips those same switches. This made me incredibly happy.

2001 (Arthur C. Clarke):
- The ape which first picked up a bone to use as a club was called Moonwatcher.
- The dimensions of the obelisk were a ratio, 2×3x5, among other dimensions. Perfect Primes, in as many dimensions as it had, which were possibly infinite.

Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card):
- Instantaneous long-distance communication (and thereby, interstellar travel) was made possible by the Ansible, which is never explained in the books, nor is its discoverer or inventer discussed. Other inventions, such as the gravity control in the Battle Room, and the “hooks” that they used there, were explained as having been stolen from the Buggers, but the Ansible may have been used in the First Bugger War, or shortly thereafter, before it could concievably have been studied and used. Also, A Bugger Queen had instantaneous communication with all their drones within some range anyway, and therefore would have no use for the Ansible, unless it was only for communication with the Bugger Homeworlds.

Bah, that’s it for now.

Well… honestly, that’s probably it on this line of thought for a long time. XD