Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20160722150021

Read this: http://fandom.wikia.com/articles/fans-helped-write-star-trek-beyond

Simon Pegg:


 * We had the entirety of ‘Star Trek’ history at our disposal and it’s always there online. There’s an amazing Wikipedia online called Memory Alpha.  It became Doug and my resource and the place that we’d turn to whenever we wanted to know ‘What kind of weapons does an NX vessel carry?’  Memory Alpha has it.  We actually wrote to the Memory Alpha guys and got them to name a certain device in the movie.  I sent them a letter saying, ‘Can you come up with this for me?’  In two hours, they came back with an entire etymological history of what the thing was.  It’s beautiful.  It’s fantastic to have that support network."

In contrast, we can't even get the TV writers to consistently stick with "King of the Andals and the First Men" or "King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men". 