Star-Trek 'Gadgets'

[Andy_R]

What is a "CD-ROM"?

It's a ROM in a pretty dress

 

[bruce1530]

I once read something about how virtually all modern technological inventions and gadgets had been “predicted” by sci-fi movies years earlier.

The one area that sci-fi didn’t really get was miniaturisation of electronics. They envisioned computers getting bigger and bigger (“a computer the size of a planet”) rather than getting smaller.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Did William Shatner have a role in that as well?

He was also in '3rd Rock From The Sun'
A damned funny programme most of the time

 

[classic33]

I once read something about how virtually all modern technological inventions and gadgets had been “predicted” by sci-fi movies years earlier.

The one area that sci-fi didn’t really get was miniaturisation of electronics. They envisioned computers getting bigger and bigger (“a computer the size of a planet”) rather than getting smaller.

Wireless charging is thanks to Nikola Tesla, as is contactless payment using a card.

 

[Reynard]

Babylon 5 predicted the contactless payment with their credit chips. Although the Centauri still use coins...

And you got the comms links that you stick on the back of your hand.

 

[Drago]

I mist be from Centauri then.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Non of them predicted shoot cycle lanes though did they?

 

[captain nemo1701]

I once read something about how virtually all modern technological inventions and gadgets had been “predicted” by sci-fi movies years earlier.

The one area that sci-fi didn’t really get was miniaturisation of electronics. They envisioned computers getting bigger and bigger (“a computer the size of a planet”) rather than getting smaller.

An episode of Futurama got it right. When the crew visit Mars University, they see only two little CD-Roms in a vast hall, apparently the sum total of human knowledge!.

 

[Threevok]

I was watching the old Arnie film - "The Running Man" the other night and I was surprised how accurately they predicted how crap TV would be in 2017

 

[captain nemo1701]

Nobody has mentioned the obvious:

BTW, just to correct things like the good Trekkie nerd I am, the Enterprise is not powered by dilithium crystals - it's powered by deuterium matter/anti-matter fusion. Dilithium is a fictional substance that supposedly mediates the reaction, but deuterium is real.

T'Pau is not Spocks mum. She was called Amanda. T'pau was a Vulcan high priestess, also an 80's band.

Captain Kirk, in 79 episodes & 6 movies, never actually said 'Beam me up Scotty'....

The original filming miniature is still around:

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/01/original-uss-enteprise-in-spacedock.html

 

[Reynard]

Captain Kirk, in 79 episodes & 6 movies, never actually said 'Beam me up Scotty'....

It was usually something along the lines of "One to beam up, Mr Scott."

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nobody has mentioned the obvious:

BTW, just to correct things like the good Trekkie nerd I am, the Enterprise is not powered by dilithium crystals - it's powered by deuterium matter/anti-matter fusion. Dilithium is a fictional substance that supposedly mediates the reaction, but deuterium is real.

T'Pau is not Spocks mum. She was called Amanda. T'pau was a Vulcan high priestess, also an 80's band.

The original filming miniature is still around:

And, so is the DS9 station

Sadly, no-one ever said "Set Phasers to Stunning!", when confronted with Seven of Nine, or T'Pol

 

[classic33]

Nobody has mentioned the obvious:

BTW, just to correct things like the good Trekkie nerd I am, the Enterprise is not powered by dilithium crystals - it's powered by deuterium matter/anti-matter fusion. Dilithium is a fictional substance that supposedly mediates the reaction, but deuterium is real.

T'Pau is not Spocks mum. She was called Amanda. T'pau was a Vulcan high priestess, also an 80's band.

Captain Kirk, in 79 episodes & 6 movies, never actually said 'Beam me up Scotty'....

The original filming miniature is still around:

https://www.thetrekcollective.com/2015/01/original-uss-enteprise-in-spacedock.html

Dilithium, fiction!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium

 

[Reynard]

Sadly, no-one ever said "Set Phasers to Stunning!", when confronted with Seven of Nine, or T'Pol

Although on Babylon 5, Ivanova was God...

And if you didn't agree, you'd have your chair moved outside, down the hall, across the station and into the fusion reactor...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Although on Babylon 5, Ivanova was God...

And if you didn't agree, you'd have your chair moved outside, down the hall, across the station and into the fusion reactor...

Never watched it