Quote: "And not EVRYTHiNG on star trec was possible or actualy had much thought put into it. Small things they sometimes made up on spot, or used a term that might have been possible but turns out not to work the same way it did in the show in real life... But star trec does have a massive impact on todays world... but then again, so did Arthor C. Clark, who makes much better scifi in my opinion..."
I'd say H G Wells had a massive impact, as did dickens and other great works of fiction. Star Trek is a useful tool for stimulating the imagination, the world comes across as not over the top. No single character, including data, demonstrated amazing physical abilities often, mostly it was amazing mental abilities, compasion and disaplin. All worthy traits to emulate. Mostly what saved the say was experise in their field just as it would in real life. But the scientific mumbo jumbo as almost no basis in reality when it comes to the big stuff. Little stuff like PDA's, touch screen consoles, and communicators, yes no problem here. But no one is going to invent anything by listening to how they think the big stuff works. It will take work, mathematic's and a hell of alot of luck.
Quote: "Some things were just quick ways to avoid spending extra money on the show. Like the transporter... it was only thought up because they didn't want to spend money on constantly showing a shuttle leaving the ship and going down to the planet.
But even things like transporters although only fiction when the name was first thought of. Right now we've only been able to "transport" single particles using quantum entanglement... only useful for making quantum computers possible (right now).
Here's an article about teleportation:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2419
I have my own personal theory about everything... anything that we can imagine is possible... so every work of fiction because our imaginations have created it... it can be a reality. Maybe not today, or in a 100 years, or thousands of years... but it will be a reality eventually. If it wasn't for imagination we wouldn't be where we are today. "
I've read that before. In reality, what happens is that the particle is undetectable between the two points, what we should explore is what happens between those two points. It's even possible that something is accellerating it to a faster-than-light speed, thus making it undetectable. But such a thing is also being a transporter. Still there's the whole "Converting the human body into bits, and constructing them again at the other end" thing, I dunno about you, but I'd rather just take a shuttle craft! But yes you are right, transporters provided an eligent way of avoiding costs in the series, this to a certain extent is why Enterprise never truely gave up the technology, introducing it from the get go.
Quote: "I remember reading about when they brought out the complete blueprint to the Enterprise. Someone wrote to the writers asking if it would actually work if they built it. Think they responded with they would be staggeringly rich rather than very rich if it actually did work. "
lol.
I lay upon my bed one bright clear night, and gazed upon the distant stars far above, then I thought... where the hell is my roof?
