I'm a trekie! [Star Trek Blog]

Q: Can we relate to the Star Trek episode 45 years later?
A: We can relate to some aspects of the Star Trek episode this many years later. Their forms of comunication[communicators, earpieces, etc.] are much like our cell phones and Bluetooth's of today. In the episode, Capitan Kirk and Spock were talking to someone through a screen. They could see him and hear him and vise versa. That idea was just like today's 'Skyping'. Other things though, like, 'beaming' to other places is physically impossible as of now.

Q: Was it Gene Roddenberry's creative imagination that gave scientists ideas for new technology or was it the existing technology that influenced Roddenberry?
A: Frankly, I can't believe that scientists were getting ideas for new technology from some fake TV show, int he 60's. I think that Gene Roddenberry just had a very creative imagination and guessed at what kind of technology our civilation would have hundreds of years from then.