Members Jeff Leites Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 A local station has started showing the old series again. I noticed a few things that they showed in the 60's that are common today. Big Screen display with 16:9 aspect ratio: Blue Tooth ear piece: Flip open cell phones: Ipod? ("There's an app for that"): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 long sleeve rayon/polyester T-shirts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members bp Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 There was a show about Star Trek Tech. It also went into MRIs, GPS, cell phones and many other real life tech where the inventors gave much credit to the series for starting them down the path to the tools we now take for granted. There's a strong case for imagination being the mother of invention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 Multi-ethnic crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 This was the show. It was really good, not to mentioned the 'soft' things, like interracial relationships, multi-species relationships, the lack of racism ( at least amongst the Federation, but you could argue that it was only migrated to the Roumlans and Klingons)... I taped on and watched it the other night called How Bruce Lee Changed the world, which was also really interesting in many ways...Lots of times, we don't even know how significant something is until the impact of our exposure to it is made concrete. And in case anyone has seen the new Trek AND Terminator, Kyle Reese is played by the same dude who plays Chekov in Trek now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted May 23, 2009 Moderators Share Posted May 23, 2009 Yeah Dean. That was a good show. In it they mentioned something interesting. Paraphrasing... "Cops consistently hate cop shows for their inaccuracies. Doctors make fun of ER and other medical shows. But talk to any scientist, from NASA or Scipps biomedical to the high school chemistry teacher, and nearly everyone of them will be a fan of the original Star Trek." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RangerJay Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 While the "sci-fi" of the original Star Trek series was OK, it was really just a setup for the interaction of characters to tell simple stories. Usually little "morality" tales. Granted, the morality in the series was ahead of its time, and definitely optimistic. Perhaps over-optimistic... The "sci-fi" setup was just a framework for storytelling, much like vampires/demons in the "Buffy" series. That said, what was once imagined is now real. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? One of the, if not the most, profound "visionary" sci-fi components of the series was the positioning of the computer as "ubiquitous" in running the ship. Of course, nowadays, it takes many computers to run a spaceship, but at that time, the idea of a "computer" was so awe-inspiring that practically nobody could envision a computer on everyone's desktop, much less in everyone's hand. The typical cell phone today has more processing power than most of the existing computers held when the original series aired. Oh yeah. Wasn't nurse Chapel like the original MILF? Or was it just me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bookumdano2 Posted May 23, 2009 Members Share Posted May 23, 2009 I dunno about Star Drek, but THIS is forward-thinking science. Plus, those 1936 chicks were pretty hot looking- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RangerJay Posted May 24, 2009 Members Share Posted May 24, 2009 I'd do her. If I were gay, I'd do him. If I were bi, I'd do both of them. But, I'm stuck in front a computer screen. So I'll just do myself. Or the blonde... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GoVols Posted May 24, 2009 Members Share Posted May 24, 2009 A fact that sometimes gets lost amongst all the other trail blazing accomplishments is that the original show was also an early influence on the hugely popular show "MTV Cribs". To wit: [YOUTUBE]eBXal1GAA4A&feature=related[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucky #9 Posted May 24, 2009 Members Share Posted May 24, 2009 Capt. Kirk and the boys often dropped by for a visit as I orbited the Red Planet back in the day... Lt. UWhoreU was quite generous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted May 24, 2009 Members Share Posted May 24, 2009 Women in command (Uhuru) Gays in command (Sulu) Non-humans in command (Spock) 3.5" floppy disks Blue food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KB Gunn Posted May 25, 2009 Members Share Posted May 25, 2009 I am a child of the 60's and Trek was first run when I watched it. Remember how cool it was that the doors slid open when Kirk approached and closed when he went thru? When was the last time that you went into a chain store that didn't have sliding doors? Really, nowadays I think people avoid stores where you have to manually open doors. It's funny, I was looking at my LCD TV on the wall and all the high tech gadgets in the house, the Roomba on the floor docking itself and all the futuristic stuff I have. My vision of the future was a Star Trek vision. I imagined everything would be modern and new, but all of the stuff is in my house which is over 50 years old. Indeed, the cities and the landscape have changed very little. The utopia of science fiction imagery never evolved. Instead, all the new architecture is coexistent with the old. The future is now, but it still for the most part looks like the past..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted May 25, 2009 Members Share Posted May 25, 2009 Newsweek magazine just had an article on this same idea. The little information "blocks" that they used sure look like our existing thumb drives... I'm surprised, extremely surprised, that no one has yet made a cell phone that looks like a Communicator, and makes that classic squiggly high-pitched sound when you open it. It'd sell like hot cakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted May 25, 2009 Members Share Posted May 25, 2009 Newsweek magazine just had an article on this same idea. The little information "blocks" that they used sure look like our existing thumb drives...I'm surprised, extremely surprised, that no one has yet made a cell phone that looks like a Communicator, and makes that classic squiggly high-pitched sound when you open it. It'd sell like hot cakes. I've been thinking that for a long time too. It's a total gimme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff Leites Posted May 25, 2009 Author Members Share Posted May 25, 2009 I just did some quick research. Looks like it was attempted a few years ago by a company called Sona, but Paramont/Viacom own the rights and nixed it. There is a newly available Star Trek VoIP phone, but it's hard wired. I also found instructions to kind of make your own. I also found a "12 Star Trek Gadgits That Became Reality" page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Will Chen Posted May 26, 2009 Members Share Posted May 26, 2009 Just waiting on the phasor...(insert maniacal laugh) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted May 26, 2009 Members Share Posted May 26, 2009 Oh the irony of a forward thinking show in Star Trek now owned by such a backward thinking company. Paramont has done several things that almost killed the franchise. One group having TV rights while another has movie rights, closing the Trek Adventure and okaying the demolishing of the ships on that set, selling off all the props for almost nothing to a company that turned around and made a fortune off of them, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff Leites Posted May 26, 2009 Author Members Share Posted May 26, 2009 I forgot about advances in direct energy weapon systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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