Posted July 25th, 2012
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“Landing party, set your phasers on stun!” As a kid growing up in the 1960s, I marveled at the gadgets and the fictional technology used on the original Star Trek series. I would have loved to have been able to get my hands on a phaser when I was a kid.
Now, at age ffifty, I have been able to order a phaser-like defensive weapon from the internet for the last twenty years. What’s more, this product, which is commonly used Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted July 22nd, 2012
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Fans of the Starship Enterprise and its crew are looking forward to May 17th, 2013, the release date of the next feature film based on the creation of Gene Roddenberry. Many rumors and stories have been spread while official announcements are few and far between. This keeps many fans guessing as they anticipate watching the movie on the big screen.
An official title has yet to be released for the new movie. News sources and other people Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted July 21st, 2012
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Everyone loves their cell phones and smart phones. The opportunity to text someone a simple hello or call a person miles away gives people great joy. Well Star Trek made it possible for the world to have cell phones today. The inventor of cell phones, Martin Cooper, got his idea from Captian Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series. Not only has the television shows allowed us to have new technologies in the social field, but it has also driven scientists to create objects from the shows. For example, Peter Janson a scientist from Canada has replicated a Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted July 17th, 2012
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Two characters engender the most adoration and continuing fascination from Star Trek fans, Spock from the Original Series, and the Next Generation’s Data.
Both characters are fish out of water. As a human/Vulcan hybrid, Spock struggled to reconcile his desire to embrace and apply the Vulcan philosophy of logic above all with the need for friendship and connection his human half demanded. For Data, human emotion and understanding were the goal. Superior in every other way to his shipmates, Data often found himself unable to partake in the simple pleasures they Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted July 14th, 2012
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Over its 46-year history, one person has been a touchstone and a guide for Star Trek fans. The person in that center seat on the bridge, the captain.
In the Original Series, Captain James T. Kirk commanded the starship Enterprise on a five-year mission to explore deep space and discover strange, new worlds. Kirk was a swaggering cowboy, a ladies’ man, but also an everyman. We saw the galaxy through his eyes, which, behind the bravado, were still filled with the wonder of the Iowa farm boy Kirk used to be.
Several generations later, Jean-Luc Picard captained the Read the rest of this entry »
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