Spock Found the Triforce

I recently started watching the original Star Trek movies. They're pretty awesome, but ultimately not relevant to a Zelda journal. However, while watching "The Search for Spock", I noticed something during the recap of "Wrath of Khan".

Spoiler Alert for Wrath of Khan!

I took a screenshot of the moment when Spock died. Spock is inside the engine room of the Enterprise. Notice the signage on the right side of the screen that includes none other than the Triforce! I can't believe I caught this on the recap and not from the actual movie. Well, I can excuse myself 'cause I was probably focused on Spock dying and not on wall designs.

Now I'm not a Trekkie (I mean I saw the movie 29 years after its release), but this choice of symbolism seems odd in the movie. I don't think there's much symbolism in the Star Trek movies although I could be wrong. Perhaps it was just a techie-looking symbol to put in a room that houses a nuclear reactor. For such a dangerous room there should be more signage. But overall the walls on the Enterprise are barren, so the Triforce looks a bit out of place. And to boot, it's included in a highly emotional scene. What could it mean? Maybe a more appropriate question is: Does it mean anything? Probably not.

There is almost certainly no relation of this to Zelda. "Wrath of Khan" came out in 1982, four years prior to the 1986 release of the original "The Legend of Zelda". The movie even came out a full year before the Famicom system was released in Japan. So the movie came and went long before development of Zelda started.

So this becomes merely an interesting tidbit. Here's another Triforce spotting from the end of "The Search for Spock":

Awesome garb... they're for a Vulcan ceremony. There's a plain triangle on the back too. This should be what the sages wear in Zelda. Or just recreate this screen in a Zelda game. The Vulcans with their pointy ears can pass for Hylians.