History WebAnimation / StarTrekSpecter

* AnAesop: WordOfGod says that this is deliberate, and that there are some that are blatant and some that are subtle. The ones we know about:
** Reading is good for your brain.
** "Even a civilization such as ours, which is founded on an enlightened philosophy, must appreciate the role those darker parts of ourselves played in the founding of that civilization."
** Teamwork is good. Every time the crew fractures, they get nowhere in their efforts, but when they work together, they make progress.
** "In life, we are not always afforded the luxury of being fully prepared for the obstacles we face. Confronting the unknown is how we grow."
** "Each of us, at some point in our lives, will face a challenge that will force us to confront the very essence of who we are. How we meet those challenges is what defines us."
** Technology is no substitute for real people.
** There's no shame in asking for help when you need it.
** A good leader invests in the personal well-being of the crew under his command. An occasional pat on the back is encouraged.
** Every decision has consequences. The choices we make in life can sometimes have repercussions that last a lifetime.
** The CentralTheme of the movie seems to be about the importance of friendship. Sometimes all it takes to change a person's life is to know someone cares. Garr did this for Reyf years before the movie takes place; Reyf does it for Garr near the end of the movie.
** Friends shouldn't turn their backs on each other over something small and unimportant.
** Every decision you make could be an important one, so treat them all as if they could change your life.
** [[ReadingIsCoolAesop Read books! You might learn something.]]
*** "Life may not always come with instructions, but you ''can'' find helpful hints...''if'' you know where to look."

A popular ''Star Trek'' fan film set in 2378, being released primarily as a series of Webisodes on Website/YouTube. A leading Starfleet [[MadScientist scientist]] suddenly goes off the deep end, faking his own death to go into hiding. Then, five years later, he returns, meaner and more dangerous than ever. The newly commissioned USS ''F Scott Fitzgerald'' scrambles to decipher his plan, only to learn that he's constructed his own fully-equipped [[CoolStarship starship]], a [[RobotGirl female android]] who's almost perfect, and even has an ElaborateUndergroundBase.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Anti-time.

* BigBad: Dr. Braiyon Elias Garr.

* BrokenPedestal: "If this is really what you want, then I guess I never really knew you."

** The [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Yellowstone-class]] [[strike:runabout]] shuttlecraft.

*** The control interfaces on the computer core are actually from the Star Trek Online game. The same computer interface will be seen later in Garr's lab, implied to be a custom operating system designed by him.

* CanonForeigner: Several, including:
** When we get our first glimpse of the Beta Reticuli surface, we hear the sound of [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 The Technodrome]].
*** And later on, one room of Garr's laboratory is played by the Technodrome's Dimensional Portal Room.
** The main room of Dr. Garr's lab is played by a redressed version of [[Series/MutantX Genomex]].
** The docking bay of Deep Space 12 is the hangar bay of the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]].
* CaptainsLog: First Officer's Log.

* ClarkKenting: [[spoiler:Braiyon Garr's past self.]]

* CoolStarship: The USS ''F. Scott Fitzgerald''.
** Also, the [[spoiler:ISS ''Voyager''.]]

** '''Reyf''': "Your advice, as always, is a study in efficiency."
** '''Erickson''': "Obviously."
* DealWithTheDevil

* DisneyAcidSequence: "Garr's Nightmare".
* DistressCall: The USS ''Fairgrieve''.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase
* EndingTropes: Specter's finale invokes quite a few:
** {{Anticlimax}}: Many got fooled into thinking Reyf's confrontation with Garr on the bridge of the ISS ''Voyager'' was the finale. Little did they realize the ''real'' climax was still to come...
** AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: When Dr. Chellik, who early on had expressed concerns about Reyf's ability to handle the Garr mission, admits he was wrong and tells Reyf he'll make a fine captain.
** BackForTheFinale: Maxwell Garrett, who hasn't been seen since the scene in sickbay after the first starship chase.
** BittersweetEnding: So everything in the here and now is back to the way it's supposed to be. But Reyf's actions have resulted in Garr's demise (or so he believes).
** BookEnds: Dr. Chellik.
** ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Braiyon Garr]] in the final scene when he disappears into a turbolift.
** DownerEnding: After everything Reyf went through to redeem his oldest friend, Garr wound up slipping back over to TheDarkSide...and Reyf wound up having to use deadly force to stop him.
** EarnYourHappyEnding: Because everything ''didn't'' turn out okay in TheEnd.
** EpilogueLetter: Reyf's chat with Chellik could arguably qualify.
** HappyEnding: In typical Trek style, it just wouldn't be right without this.
** NotQuiteBackToNormal: The characters don't notice it, but we can see that the main bridge and ready room of the ''Fitzgerald'' are both different than they're supposed to be.
** RidingIntoTheSunset: The shot of the ''Fitzgerald'' going to warp as the credits roll arguably qualifies.

*** Reyf's comes when he's shown to be in shock after he sees Garr on the viewscreen.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Braiyon Garr specifically makes sure that everyone gets off the Alcawell Station "alive and well." The only time anyone's hurt is by accident. except for the occupants of the shuttle he rams.
* EvilLaugh: Garr has a rather creepy one, to say the least..

* TheFilmOfTheBook: A curious inversion: Specter doesn't have an official novelization (yet), but its length and elaborate storyline gives many fans cause to wonder if this isn't essentially a novel presented in movie format.

* ForDoomTheBellTolls
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Basically, everything in Specter foreshadows something coming later.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Two words: Beta Reticuli.

* HannibalLecture: Braiyon Garr gets one of these.
** Reyf also gets in his second PatrickStewartSpeech immediately thereafter.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Garr says this was how his downfall began.

* InsufferableGenius: Garr.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: It's not made clear until Scene 42 (when Garr makes a song selection on a console), but the three "20th century pop song" sequences in the movie fall into this category. In all cases, when Garr is aboard the ISS ''Voyager'', whatever music we're hearing is what he's actually listening to. In Scene 29, it goes from diegetic aboard the ship, to non-diegetic on the station, and back again when Garr is back on his bridge.
** Justified as those three scenes are all pure RuleOfCool.

** Kristie: The theme from ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' is repurposed as Kristie's theme, heard only twice: once when the FacialRecognitionSoftware turns up a match, and again when the android visits Garr in his guest quarters.
* MadScientist: Guess.

* MissionBriefing: "His name is Dr. Braiyon Garr."

** Reyf's mannerisms strongly favor TNG's Jean-Luc Picard. "Make it so, Number One."
*** With a little [[Series/StargateSG1 Teal'c]] thrown in for flavor. "Indeed."

* OmniscientDatabase: The "facial recognition search" towards the end of the movie is a textbook example.

** One: the launch sequence.
*** "Looking at this crowd of...strange people I barely knew, it's safe to say I'd never been quite so nervous in my life."
** Two: after Garr tempts him with the prospect of altering his own history.
*** "You once told me that even suffering has value."
** Three: on the ''Voyager'' bridge when he tries to convince Garr to give it up.
*** "After all that time you spent telling me to confront my pain, here you stand, still running from yours!"

* [[ProjectedMan Projected Woman]]: The Emergency Medical Hologram of the ''Fitzgerald''.

* RapidFireTyping: Data in the ''Fitzgerald'' observation lounge calling up sensor information.

* RedAlert
** Blue alert!

* RuleOfCool: The [[spoiler:ISS ''Voyager'' runs on this.]]

** Data's rambling. Which Reyf also interrupts 'every time with some form of "'''Thank''' you, Mr. Data."
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Lt. Garrett]].

* SignificantAnagram: "Dennis Gard Robb" is an anagram of "Brandon Bridges," executive producer and the voice of Dr. Braiyon Garr. Dennis Gard Robb receives credit as the voice of Gaius Reyf and as a 3D prop designer.

* SpaceIsNoisy

** '''Reyf''': "Ensign Kal, has there been any word from the survey team Starfleet dispatched?"\\

** '''Prentice''': "Can you tell what kind of shape their records are in?"\\

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself. Reyf's confrontation with Dr. Garr.
* TimeTravel

* TwistEnding

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The computer simulation in Stellar Cartography serves as this.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted; many thought that Chellik's mention of a survey team coming to help the ''Fitzgerald'' the next day would wind up being a plot hole.

Believing that to be his only problem, Reyf discovers early on that the reappearance of his old friend is stirring up some uncomfortable emotions concerning their history, guilt and remorse that threaten the success of the mission in ways his relative inexperience never could. When they finally meet face to face, Garr offers Reyf a DealWithTheDevil to travel into his own past, and SetRightWhatOnceWasWrong.

* AnimationBump: Improvements in workflow and technology resulted in substantial improvements mid-film to the quality of animation (the introduction of rack-focus shots is just one example).

** Even though it's not really legible on camera, WordOfGod says that the motto on the dedication plaque of the ISS ''Voyager'' reads: [[TheSimpsons "Screw Flanders!"]]

Considered one of the best works of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[FanFic fanon]] currently in production, the film is notable for its accurate [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] replicas of the classic [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]] shooting sets, as well as the creative use of kitbashed versions of the ''Enterprise-D'' and the USS ''Voyager''. The film introduces a new crew of [[IncrediblyLamePun enterprising young men]], heavily implied to be an {{Expy}} of the TNG crew (up to and including Captain Reyf's BaldOfAwesome, a trait shared by Jean-Luc Picard).

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Captain Reyf.
** TheLancer: Commander Prentice
** TheSmartGuy: Commander Merv Ronston
** TheBigGuy: Lieutenant Erickson.
** TheChick: It's implied that Dr. Falwell typically fills this role, in her absence no clear replacement is named.

** The docking bay of Deep Space 12 is the hangar bay of the [[StarWars Death Star]].

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Dr. Garr]]

** The EMH is using a [[StarWars lightsaber hilt]] as a medical scanner in one scene. [[RuleOfFunny It's quite funny.]]

** The starship [[StarWars Antilles]].
** Garr: [[StarWars "I dislike repeating myself, so this will be the last time I ask."]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Braiyon Garr.

* YouHaveFailedMe[=/=]YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Both inverted by Garr in that he doesn't seem to have any Mooks of any kind, nor does he seem to have had any kind of outside help doing his impossible deeds.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Garr says this was how his downfall began..

* CloseEnoughTimeline: [[spoiler: Some minor cosmetic changes occur as a result of the events of the film, such as the ''Fitzgerald'''s bridge at the end now sporting the colors of the ''Enterprise-E'' rather than the familiar ''Galaxy''-class look.]]

* Captain Gaius Reyf. TheCaptain and TheSpock.
* Commander Bradley Prentice. TheMcCoy
* Dr. Braiyon Garr. BigBad
* Dr. Elizabeth Falwell. DisposableLoveInterest
* Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Garrett. RedShirt
* Lt. Cmdr. Merv Ronston. TheEngineer
* Lt. Kendra Erickson. TheKirk

* CatchPhrase" Reyf: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Make it so."]]

* ComingOfAgeStory

* PutOnABus: Lt. Maxwell Garrett. He returns for the final scene.

* ConspicuousCG

* BigBudgetBeefUp: A curious invocation as the sets are all detailed replicas of the "upgraded" sets from Film/StarTrekGenerations (also known as ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek TNG]]'': TheMovie).

*** Look next to the door in Dr. Chellik's office and you'll spot [[Film/StarTrek the Enterprise]].

* TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary: When describing Garr's ElaborateUndergroundBase, he calls it...an ElaborateUndergroundBase.

** The [[StarTrekExpandedUniverse Alcawell Station]] is said to be refining [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 berellium crystal]].

** "The human race has evolved beyond the need for such outdated concepts as heroism and villainy. People of {{Frankenstein}}'s obvious insanity are practically ''unheard of'' in this day and age. And you don't exactly see people setting up secret labs trying to play God the way he did."

* DanBrowned: The graphics for this movie are famously full of interesting details, some of which are plot-relevant and some of which aren't. The single greatest example takes place during the first crew briefing: when Reyf calls up Garr's bio on the monitor, the last line of text actually gives away the film's ending.
** Also during the prologue. The appearance of the [[spoiler:ISS ''Voyager'']] is foreshadowed by an image on the monitor of the computer core behind Garr. You have to look closely but it's there.

* {{Blooper}}: Despite the fairly high production values, Specter has a few of these:
** In the prologue, "commander" Reyf is seen wearing captain's pips. Also, in several shots, the auxiliary navigation panel in Garr's cockpit is unlit.
** Arguably, in the prologue the use of the term "shuttlecraft" to describe the ship Garr is flying around in could count, since continuity establishes that that type of ship is properly referred to as a "runabout."
** In the wide pan of Dr. Chellik's office, he's clearly looking to his left at the computer terminal. But when we cut to the closeup, he's looking down at the padd he's holding.
** In the crew briefing scene, pay attention to the black glass tabletop in the opening shot. Notice Reyf has no reflection; this is a result of how the shot was made, with Reyf, the set, and the warp stars all being separate pieces of footage which were then composited together.
** Also pay careful attention to the keypads to either side of the wall monitor Reyf is standing next to. From shot to shot, they change size and position.
*** A similar blooper occurred in several TNG episodes, when the prop keypads on the set kept disappearing, and had to be replaced and repositioned for some shots. This resulted in the keypads being in one position for wide shots, and another position for closeups.
** In the same scene, note that several times the warp stars seem to switch directions, sometimes going in their proper direction, while in others they seem to be moving perpendicular to the ship. This is the result of the scene originally having different shots in those places, only to have those shots switched out and the warp stars never adjusted accordingly.
** In a blooper that largely went unnoticed, the "alert bars" at the back of the ''Fitzgerald'' bridge set were accidentally swapped (port for starboard and vice versa).

* FakeOutOpening: You didn't ''really'' think Dr. Garr was ReallyDead when the shuttle crashed in the AsteroidThicket, did you?

** Then later, after Reyf orders the [[DeusExMachine magneton warhead]] deployed and it destroys ''Voyager'' (we think), he's devastated when he realizes his oldest friend has just been KilledOffForReal—this time by his own hand.
* NegativeSpaceWedgi: Several of these:

* RecycledSet: Look closely at some of the ''Fitzgerald'' sets and you'll quickly realize that they're actually redressed ''Voyager'' sets.
*** An even better example is Science Lab Four, which is very obviously a recolored version of the ''Voyager'' science lab, stocked with TNG props.
** Also if you look closely, Dr. Chellik's office in the beginning is based very closely on Admiral Cain's quarters from the second season of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.

* RunningGag: Count how many times you hear the number "47" pop up in this movie.

* ScheduleSlip. Specter was being released as it was being produced, and during some of the longer stopdowns, fans were known to ask if any more were forthcoming.

* ThrowItIn: During the starship chase sequence, Ronston's utterance of "That's not fair!" was ad libbed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early script drafts referenced live-action sequences.
** Also, original plans mentioned the ISS ''Voyager'' to face off against a Borg ship like the Borg fortress from the TNG episode "Descent."
** They also reference a ''Sovereign''-class USS ''F. Scott Fitzgerald''

* WordOfGod: The aforementioned thread at Scifi-Meshes.com

* YouLookFamiliar: Captain Mantell (from the prologue) and Dr. Edward Chellik are played by the exact same character model, just with different uniforms, to the point that some people initially thought Chellik ''was'' Mantell. See also, the helm officer from the prologue and Lt. Kendra Erickson.
** This is also why the ''Fitzgerald'' Ops officer is [[RedShirt redshirted]]. He was played by the exact same character model as the ship's first officer, only with different hair and eye coloring.

** In Reyf's ready room in the final scene...isn't that a [[NickelodeonGuts Glowing Piece of the Aggro Crag]] next to the door?

* {{Badass}}: Garr rams a ''Fitzgerald'' shuttlecraft because he knows Reyf will rescue his officers rather than pursue him, and return to fight another day.
** Captain Gaius Reyf, facing down the ISS ''Voyager'' while hovering over a black hole: "This is Captain Gaius Reyf, of the Federation starship ''F. Scott Fitzgerald''. We know what you're doing; we demand that you stand down and surrender your vessel immediately."

** Garr's GlowingEyesOfDoom are reminiscent of [[{{Terminator}} The Terminator]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Due to technological limitations, the movie's entire cast of characters (except for two) are played by the same pair of Poser 4 characters. Combines with YouLookFamiliar below.

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* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Somehow, Braiyon Garr built a super-advanced [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Starship of Doom]], a [[MacGuffinGirl super-advanced android girl]], and an ElaborateUndergroundBase, all in only five years by himself with no sign of shipyards or any other support facilities.

** In the ''Fitzgerald'' sickbay, the supply boxes underneath the table below the large lighted mural suggest that the boxes contain quantities of [[TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack GC-161]].

->''"Each of us, at some point in our lives, will face a challenge that will force us to confront the very essence of ho we are. How we meet those challenges is what defines us."''

** Kristie: The theme from {{Titanic}} is repurposed as Kristie's theme, heard only twice: once when the FacialRecognitionSoftware turns up a match, and again when the android visits Garr in his guest quarters.

** Also if you look closely, Dr. Chellik's office in the beginning is based very closely on Admiral Cain's quarters from the second season of the 2004 Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}.

** Captain [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Gaius]] [[Series/{{Andromeda}} Reyf]].

** The main room of Dr. Garr's lab is played by a redressed version of [[MutantX Genomex]].

* Captain Gaius Reyf. TheCaptain...[[CaptainObvious obviously.]]
** TheSpock. Also plays the part of TheWoobie for most of the movie.

* ActionGirl: Lieutenant Kendra Erickson.
** There's a reason when she beams down to investigate Garr's lab, ''she's'' the one with the biggest phaser.

** Teamwork is good. (Every time the crew fractures they get nowhere in their efforts, but when they work together they make progress)

** Technology is no substitute for real people. (Pointedly represented by the EMH)

*** Isn't this whole plot an instance of a SpaceWhaleAesop? Two-time your significant other, and it'll scar him for life so bad that he'll go stark raving mad, then go back in time to keep it from happening?
** I think the whole friend thing is actually a DoubleAesop. Likewise the whole bit about learning to handle life's challenges. In both instances, it applies to both Reyf and Garr.
** Bro's before hoe's!
*** Or, put another way, relationships come and go. But friends are forever.
*** And a true friend will continue to watch your back long after you turn your back on them.

** Maybe this is really just DeusExMachina.
** Then again, when you consider that Merv says "magneton flash sequence," which is the exact same phrase they used for a type of scan on VOY once...

* AsteroidThicket: Fans everywhere have pointed out that the asteroid belt of Sector 001 isn't nearly that dense.
** Partially subverted though when Reyf says "He's entering the densest part of the debris field."

** And when he's creating holoprograms.
** WordOfGod says that Reyf's description of how much effort Garr put into the holoprogram he left for Reyf to find is ''not'' an exaggeration. The [[spoiler:''Price is Right'']] virtual set was apparently a work in progress for more than five years, making it the single most-developed set in the movie.

*** Hilariously, Garr doesn't respond.
* BerserkButton: You do '''not''' want to tell Braiyon Garr that his efforts into something are wasted.

* BigBrotherMentor: The way Reyf remembers Garr through most of the movie.
** It's also implied that Reyf serves this function for Lieutenant Erickson and Ensign Hargrove.

* TheBridge: Featuring Ensigns Hargrove and Kal as BridgeBunnies

** Merv Ronston, the chief engineer, can't seem to get a date to save his life. This is a direct allusion to the repeated romantic failures of Geordi La Forge from TNG.

** Reyf: "But [[TheSpock a great man]] one said: [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few...or the one]]."
* TheCameo: Too many to name! But we'll try anyway:

** The Utopia Planitia Yards, played by many (many!) copies of the ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' drydock.

*** Next to the door in Dr. Chellik's office. Is that [[Film/StarTrek the Enterprise?]]
*** Why yes, yes it is.
*** And speaking of Chellik's office, the whole thing rather reminds me of [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Admiral Cain's quarters]].

* CanonForeignerL Several, including:

* CaptainsLog: First Officer's Log
* CardCarryingVillainL Dr. Garr most definitely qualifies as one of these, after ''ramming a shuttlecraft just to use the jeopardy of its two occupants to shake pursuit''.
* CatchPhraseL Reyf: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Make it so."]]
* CharacterDevelopment: LOTS of it. By the end of the movie, just about everyone's grown up in some way.
* ChaseScene: Not one, but TWO. Both involving a pair of [[CoolStarship cool starships]] no less.
** The first one combines elements of FollowThatCar, HotPursuit, and SearchingTheStalls.
** The second one is just a HotPursuit RecycledINSPACE.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The villain in this film has a thing for the color blue: his uniform, the lights on his bridge (when at battle alert), [[spoiler:the hull of his ship]], the visual effect of his warp drive...
** Notice also that Garr's uniform is exactly half as light as Reyf's as long as he's in "evil" mode, but after he turns good and is on the ''Fitzgerald'' bridge speaking to Thornton, suddenly he's in a real (lighter) uniform. Then when he manages to get back to his ship and starts pursuing his evil plan again, all of a sudden he's back in the darker uniform.

* ComplimentBackfire: Ronston's attempt to flatter Erickson: "Why Kendra, I never knew you had a softer side!"

-->"We are about to go up against the greatest threat to TheFederation since [[Film/StarTrekGenerations Tolian Soran]]. I hate to sound like [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Lieutenant Taurik]], but where's the logic in this?"
* CoolStarship: The USS ''F. Scott Fitzgerald''. A ship so cool it has to have a name three words long.
** Also the [[spoiler:ISS ''Voyager''.]]

** Making her more of a DamselScrappy.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Most of the movie was rewritten when fans felt that it was turning into too much of a TNG-like offering. The result? Braiyon Garr ''slaps'' an elderly scientist just to prove the point that he's alive.

** A clear case of RealitySubtext.
*** Which is also hinted at by Garr's birthdate being June 3--the same day as the producer.
*** WordOfGod says that the registry number of the ''Fitzgerald'', 85107, has significance as well, presumably as the date January 7.
** And isn't that the pilot theme from the first episode of Series/{{House}} behind it?

** Actually a case of an AbortedArc. Troi was originally to have played a much larger role in deciphering the mind of Dr. Garr, including the all-important clue that only a severe emotional trauma could have the power to change Garr's personality so radically.

** Hardline Trekkers get sidetracked by the phrasing of the question and probably miss its real meaning, but it sure sounds like Garr built a site-to-site transporter into her and was asking if they'd found it.
* DisneyAcidSequence: "Garr's Nightmare" arguably qualifies.
** WordOfGod says that originally one of these was planned for Reyf too, but it was dropped over fears that it would make his character seem too fragile.

* DivideAndConquer: Prentice and Garrett shouldn't have gone on that shuttle excursion...
** That's one of the themes of the movie, teamwork and the notion that a group of people is stronger when they're all working together than when they're alone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** "Or is this just another example of you being hard on me just for the hell of it?"
** A far, far better example is when Garr asks "How thorough was their examination" after he and the android hug. When that clip was first posted [[FreudWasRight many people]] thought Garr was making [[UnfortunateImplications an unfortunate implication]]. Turns out it was InnocentInnuendo, and what he was really asking was whether Reyf's crew had discovered the site-to-site transporter he'd built into her.

*** The same shot is also a dual CallBack, first to a very similar shot at the end of ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', and the shot that ends the title sequence of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
** TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Seeing non-evil version of Garr on the altered ''Fitzgerald'' bridge.
* TheEndOrIsIt: "Well now, I'll tell you something Data; on a night five years ago, very much like this, I watched as his shuttlecraft was vaporized by a warp core collapse. He survived that, somehow. And I wouldn't be surprised if, somehow, he survived this as well. Call it a hunch, call it a gut feeling, call it whatever you wish. But I don't think we've seen the last of Braiyon Garr."
** Could potentially also be a SequelHook.
*** More than just "potentially"--just after New Year's 2011, it was announced that ''Specter'' WOULD have a sequel, ''Star Trek: Retribution'', and that Garr WOULD return.
*** No doubt ActingForTwo, based on that last scene.
** [[CaptainObvious Because most of us are watching the movie on liquid-crystal displays of one kind or another.]]

** Garr's comes in the prologue, when he brazenly (or is it casually, I'm not sure?) threatens the starship chasing him ''and firing at him.''

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Braiyon Garr specifically makes sure that everyone gets off the Alcawell Station "alive and well." The only time anyone is hurt is by accident. Except for the occupants of the shuttle he rams.
* EvilLaugh: Braiyon Garr's is most definitely ''creepy''.

* FanService: Ensign Mitchell.
** In one scene, when she and [[spoiler:Lieutenant Erickson]] show up in Ten-Forward in gym clothes, [[spoiler:Erickson]]'s outfit is fairly conservative, but Mitchell's is practically {{Stripperific}}.

*** "Don't go there."
** TheChick: It's implied that Dr. Falwell typically fills this role, in her absence no clear replacement is named. Reyf sometimes fills this role when necessary.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The clock is ticking down to zero until the USS ''Fairgrieve'' explodes and the ''Fitzgerald'' [[UnusualEuphemism gets washed away]]. Power goes out, and Data restores the warp engines just in the nick of time. OneSecondLater, [[OutrunTheFireball the Fairgrieve explodes.]]

* ForTheEvulz: Garr's VillainLaugh after he visits Reyf in the turbolift.
** And when he calls for red alert after Reyf comments that the ISS ''Voyager'' doesn't seem ominous enough. Horror ensues.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom[=/=]RedEyesTakeWarning: At several points throughout the movie, Garr's eyes glow red [[RuleOfCool for no apparent reason]].
** WordOfGod says that originally, this was to have been shown to be for a very good reason near the end of the film. The dialogue where this was to have been disclosed wound up getting deleted for time. The explanation is horrifying: [[spoiler:the original experiment that damaged Garr's DNA, as we learned early on, damaged more than just cellular bonds. The radiation damage to his body was so severe that Garr basically had to turn to Borg technology to sustain vital life functions; and because of the fragility of the optic tissue, they had to be completely replaced by occular implants.]]

** WordOfGod says that an explanation for this was originally written into the story, but was dropped in favor of emphasizing Reyf's personal stake in Garr's actions: originally, Garr was supposed to be a member of [[TheMenInBlack Section 31]].
* HannibalLecture: Braiyon Garr gets one of these. Overlaps with LeaveYourQuestTest.

** WordOfGod has it that an earlier scene included Reyf about to start what sounded like a long-winded speech, only for Garr to interrupt with "On this ship, ''I'' do the monologuing."

** Also the same voice actor playing ALL the parts....including the female roles.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Braiyon Garr says this was how his downfall began.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: In the prologue, the USS ''Daystrom'' fires no less than ''twenty one'' phaser blasts, none of which even comes ''close'' to hitting Garr's [[strike:shuttlecraft]] runabout.
** Justified in that Garr is using some kind of jamming technology to keep them from locking onto him.
* InkSuitActor: To make the animation of the Garr character as lifelike as possible, the animator (who also voiced the character) acted out his lines before sitting down to animate them.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: This movie has this in SPADES.
** Garr's evil, supervillain plan
*** And the investigation into Garr's evil, supervillain plan
** Reyf growing up and accepting his choices
** Erickson and Ronston's love life
** The mystery of the female android
* JustInTime: During the final ChaseScene, Garr seems to have perfectly anticipated everything Reyf and friends will do, until Erickson conveniently remembers the [[AssPull magneton warhead]] that she and Ronston had designed earlier. They barely get it armed and ready in time to use it...and even then they're still too late.
** Or else were DoomedToFail from the start.
** Kind of leads to a belated WhyDontYaJustShootHim when you realize they had this the entire time.
* LargeHam[=/=]HamAndCheese: Garr.
** "So Garr somehow managed to pull off the impossible. And with such overblown theatrics that no one would question his sudden disappearance."
** "Gaius, I can't help but notice that you seem a bit...shorthanded."?
** "This is Dr. Braiyon Garr, commanding the Federation starship ISS ''Voyager''. Now's not a good time, Gaius, I'm going to have to ask you to come back."
*** "Oh, please ''spare'' me the tired cliche of making the impassioned plea for the villain to abandon his plans. We both know it's not going to happen."

* MindScrew: Garr, in the scene in the turbolift. Especially since [[spoiler:it's actually the real Garr, who's tricked Reyf into thinking he's just a figment of his sleep-deprived imagination, and thereby gets Reyf to reveal a key weakness.]]
** Fans have questioned how this could be possible. The answer, according to WordOfGod: “Well, we know from the ''Prometheus'' that it's standard by this time to put holoemitters throughout a starship, allowing the EMH to go anywhere it's needed. I hinted at that with the Admiral Thornton hologram in Reyf's ready room—notice she walks around instead of being stuck in one spot like the Deep Space Nine holocommunicator. As for the rest, remember that Garr sent a set of coordinates to Erickson early on: that transmission contained a computer virus that gave him full access to the ''Fitzgerald'' and its systems. That's also how he knew about the supposedly private conversation between Reyf and Prentice about Wolf 359.”

** Overlaps with MrExposition. Except for the first one, these are a NecessaryEvil to help the action sequences make sense.

** First when Garr wises up and realizes that in trying to reclaim his innocence in the past, he's sacrificed any chance of redemption in the present. Reyf is able to convince him that he can be redeemed, and thus convinces him to stand down.

** Erickson seems to share the gruff air, bravery, and ferocity of one Lieutenant Commander Worf.
** Merv Ronston's repeated romantic failures make him an obvious Expy for Geordi LaForge.

** The performances for Counselor Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data were written with Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner very much in mind.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Garr, when his ship gets torn apart at the end of the movie.
** [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery He got better.]]]]

* OhCrap: Commander Prentice when the ship's power goes out moments before a massive explosion.

** Maybe a better example of FacialRecognitionSoftware that features a ViewerFriendlyInterface.

* PatrickStewartSpeech: Reyf gets in not one but THREE of these:

** Lieutenant Erickson even gets one in. Combines with Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming as soon as she says: "...personally I'm proud of you for facing him the way you did. And I don't want to see you lose your confidence, not now. Not after everything we've been through."

* PowerTrio: typically Erickson, Prentice, and Reyf, with Reyf playing the role of peacekeeper.

** Who was also an AscendedExtra. Originally, she was only supposed to appear once; she was given additional screen time (LOTS of it) because of her unexpected popularity with fans.
* PromotedFanboy: The producer was dissatisfied with both ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' and the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek''. This is why Specter is set aboard the USS [[strike:''Enterprise''-D]] ''F. Scott Fitzgerald'' and features Data in a prominent starring role.

** The reason for this is that the original draft of the script placed most of the action aboard the ISS ''Voyager'', and so a full suite of ''Voyager'' sets was built first. When the script was rewritten to transfer the primary action to the ''Fitzgerald'', many of the ''Voyager'' sets were redressed accordingly. This is especially apparent in Reyf's quarters, where the arched windows are very obviously from an ''Intrepid''-class ship, even though we're on a ''Galaxy''-class ship.

*** This is the exact opposite of how things actually happened on the shows. The TNG sets came first, which were then redressed into the ''Voyager'' sets.

*** "Obviously."

* RunningGag: Seriously, count how many times you hear the number "47" pop up in this movie.
** Or better yet, make it a drinking game.
** What about the "coffee cup" gag? It first shows up during the "V'Ger Flyover" sequence, when the shuttle flies past the dark mess hall. Then the light catches the metal off the cup and the camera zooms in on it. The same thing happens again when Reyf visits [[spoiler:Garr's old office]]. The implication both times is that Garr had been there recently.
** Data's rambling. Which Reyf also interrupts '''every time''' with some form of "'''Thank''' you, Mr. Data."
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Lt. Garrett]] Overlaps with TheWorfEffect.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong
** An interesting use of the trope because, when we start out, ''nothing'' is really "wrong." What Garr tempts Reyf with is [[spoiler:the possibility of saving his father from a premature death at the hands of the Borg.]]
* ShoutOut: [[strike:Several]] Numerous:

** Garr's GlowingEyesOfDoom are reminiscent of [[{{Terminator}} The Terminator]], aren't they?

** The EMH is using a [[StarWars Jedi lightsaber]] as a medical scanner in one scene. [[RuleOfFunny It's quite funny.]]

** [[Creator/MervGriffin Merv]] Ronston
** The starship [[Creator/MarkGoodson Goodson]].

** Garr: [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} "It's showtime."]]
** Prentice: [[Film/EventHorizon "Looks like she's been to hell and back."]]

** Garr: [[StarWars "I dislike repeating myself so this will be the last time I ask."]]

** In Reyf's ready room in the final scene...isn't that a [[NickelodeonGuts Glowing Piece of the Aggro Crag]] next to the door???
** Look closely at the fleet in the Wolf 359 flashback sequence. Notice anything that doesn't belong?
*** The Millennium Falcon, an Asgard O'Neill (with two L's!)-class ship, the 2003 versions of the Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus, plus a few ships from the '03 ragtag fugitive fleet.

** Deep Space Nine

* SpockSpeak: Reyf's incessant use of the word "Indeed."
** Which is itself a ShoutOut to [[Series/StargateSG1 Teal'c]].

** Except when replaying visual logs.
** Inverted however by the fact that the transitions between scenes typically feature recreations of actual stock shots from the series and movies.
* SwirlyEnergyThingy. The vortex that swallows the [[spoiler:Beta Reticuli system]].
** And the black hole near the end of the film.
* TakeThat. "Why is it ''every time'' someone goes off the deep end in this century, it always winds up involving time travel???"
** [[DontExplainTheJoke Because ''Star Trek'' has used time travel so much!!!]]

** [[RuleOfThree Three scenes]] are nothing ''but'' technobabble.

** Scene 42. Just... Scene 42.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: When Reyf finally figures out Garr's plan, for the first time since the launch sequence we get a piece of upbeat music. It was awesome.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself. Reyf's confrontation with Dr. Garr. With neither backup nor weapons, at that.
* ThrowItIn: During the starship chase sequence, Ronston's utterance of "That's not fair!" was ad libbed by the voice actor.

* TomatoSurprise: Scene 51. Just... Scene 51.
** Actually, it's really Scene 49B. As soon as we cut back to the bridge after the temporal shock wave hits, the set is different: the doors are dark red and there are metal plates on the consoles behind Erickson. And if you look closely, the chairs are suddenly dark red leather and the carpet is blue and dark brown instead of magenta and gray (even though those changes are largely "hidden" by low lighting of red alert). Then in Scene 51, we can see all the sets lit properly, and you realize what happened.
*** The colors in Reyf's "alternate" ready room are from Captain Archer's ready room on [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]], and the bridge colors come from HD screencaps from ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''.
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: We're not exactly sure where the ''Fitzgerald'' is when Reyf decides to visit Earth. But we can assume it's someplace decently close to Deep Space Nine, since the Beta Reticuli system is said to have been only two hours away from there at the ship's maximum speed. Canon tells us that it takes a while to get from Deep Space Nine to Earth, and yet the ''Fitzgerald'' seems to magically just show up there with little or no time having passed.
** Could also be a case of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.
** In Scene 34 "The Visitation," that turbolift ride from deck 12 to deck 36 seems to take an awfully long time, doesn't it? (Almost a full four minutes!)

* VillainSong: Played with: clearly the reason for the use of "Cosmic Castaway"
** Could also qualify as an IAmSong.
** Making "Forever" the IWantSong.
** What about "Pretend We're Dead"?
*** That's just [[VillainsOutShopping Garr out shopping]].
* WasOnceAMan: Braiyon Garr.
* WhamLine: In an early scene, Garr outright ''slaps'' the elderly Dr. Chellik, just to show he's ''that'' evil.

* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Somehow, Braiyon Garr built a super-advanced [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Starship of Doom]], a [[MacGuffinGirl super-advanced android girl]], and an ElaborateUndergroundBase, all in only '''five years''', by himself, with no sign of shipyards or any other support facilities, '''while remaining [[InvisibleToNormals perfectly invisible to the outside universe]]'''. It comes up in dialogue ever so briefly, before being [[HandWave hand waved]] into the [[FridgeLogic fridge]].
* WholePlotReference: believe it or not, the basic premise of this movie is taken from an unused concept for ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', which was to have had Picard chasing down an old Academy classmate who had become obsessed with finding the Fountain of Youth.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Reyf's incessant use of the word "Indeed" irked more than one fan.

** This is also why the ''Fitzgerald'' Ops officer is [[RedShirt redshirted]]. He was played by the exact same character model as the ship's first officer, only with different hair and eye coloring. This was made painfully apparent when they were together in a shuttlecraft.
*** Fans even made comments about them possibly being "twins."