10 Best Foreshadowing Moments In Star Trek

4. Recalled To Death

There is no better way to bookend than with a book. The "something Spock was trying to tell me on my birthday" towards the close of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was the gift of A Tale of Two Cities at the beginning. "Book the First: Recalled to Life" was the start with that famous line for Dickens. 

Death and the Kobayashi Maru was more of a red herring in monster maroon. Gene Roddenberry had allegedly leaked one of the scripts. Producers now needed to distract from Spock's actual demise. First drafts had no death in the simulator, and no simulator up front. That was director Nicholas Meyer's idea. The message? Don't worry, dear moviegoer! "All is well."

Kirk's "Aren't you dead?" to Spock in the corridor was then doubly sarcastic and twice the wink. The fake-out for the real thing became as much a clever teaser for "Remember". You can't cheat death, but also, maybe someone else can.