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Briar Patch or variants may refer to: a thicket formed by thorny plants; Briar Patch, a place in the fictional Br'er Rabbit stories; Briar Patch , a fictional region of space "Briar Patch", a 1989 story by Dean Ing in the Man-Kzin Wars series "Briarpatch", a song by Devin the Dude from the 2004 album To tha X-Treme
1998's Star Trek: Insurrection saw the Starship Enterprise enter a region of space called the Briar Patch. At some point during a battle with the Son'a, Commander Riker states that it is "time to use the Briar Patch the way Br'er Rabbit did". A direct-to-video film based on the stories, The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, was released in 2006.
Where a thicket is formed of briar (also spelled brier), which is a common name for any of a number of unrelated thorny plants, it may be called a briar patch. Plants termed briar include species in the genera Rosa ( Rose ), Rubus , and Smilax .
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904. The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit.
The Briar Patch is a nebula in sector 441 in the Star Trek universe. It was first introduced in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection. While the nebula's visual characteristics are reminiscent of astronomical photographs, many of its more interesting properties were invented to support the film's storyline.
The rabbit sees a briar patch and gets an idea to use reverse psychology to make them throw him in there. They do so, and Brer Rabbit gets free and tricks them into jumping into the patch themselves. Back in the present, Brer Fox happens upon Brer Turtle and Janey and asks where Brer Rabbit went.
The Diet Coke button returned to Donald Trump's Oval Office, offering the president immediate access to his favorite soda beverage.
The story was used in the 1946 film Song of the South along with "The Tar Baby" and "The Briar Patch". [2] It is also referenced in a dark ride scene of Splash Mountain, a log flume-style attraction based on Song of the South at Tokyo Disneyland and formerly at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom.