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When TV shows die they don't fade away, instead they go into syndication. And that is why there are four TV spin offs, one cartoon, countless video and board games, a near infinite number of novels and eleven movies in the Star Trek franchise to date. You can read more on the movies with Cracked writer Peter Lynn's Best and Worse Star Trek Movies of all time. Or check out Chris Bucholz's article on the new movie Star Trek Prequel Spoilers.
To get a sense of how much actual science has made its way into the science fiction universe of Star Trek, ScientificAmerican.com spoke to Lawrence Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek, the first edition of which appeared on bookshelves in 1995.
Balkanize Me: It finally happens to the crumbling Romulan Star Empire. Specifically, Commander Donatra declares herself empress of a new interstellar nation, the Imperial Romulan State, with the result that Romulan space is effectively split in two. The Klingons agree to recognise Donatra's government, eager to encourage division among the Romulan people. The Federation is pressured into showing solidarity with its Klingon allies and so also ends up recognizing the IRS.
The value of space travel was impressed on me at a young age. While my introduction to intergalactic exploration was informal, it left a lasting impact. These lessons in bravery and adventure were held weekly, not counting reruns. I am, of course, referring to the TV show Star Trek.
, for all its schmaltz and camp, has at its heart a very real passion for discovery and an enduring faith in man's untapped potential, as well as his unquenchable thirst for knowledge. It is Star Trek that presented me with the idea that, as the inhabitants of Earth step out into the vast realm of space, we must take that step as a people united or else we will fail.
Continuity Nod: Many. Most significantly to the first two novels of the Star Trek: Titan series and the Star Trek: A Time to... series, which introduced President Bacco and set the political stage for this novel.
To avoid the production costs of having to film a ship landing, the writers dreamed up "transporter" technology, inadvertently creating one of the best known features in the Star Trek Universe and a plot device that would be abused in ways the original writers could never have imagined.
When I first wrote the book, we thought most stars could have planets, but we had no idea of the frequency or of the diversity of ways that exoplanets could form.There's water on Mars, and it was probably once warm; Jupiter's moon Europa likely has a liquid ocean. For exoplanets not in the Earth-like Goldilocks zone around their stars, maybe they have an environment sustainable for non€"Earth-like life. Perhaps there is life out there that is silicon-based rather than carbon-based like our own.
To get a sense of how much actual science has made its way into the science fiction universe of Star Trek, ScientificAmerican.com spoke to Lawrence Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek, the first edition of which appeared on bookshelves in 1995.
Balkanize Me: It finally happens to the crumbling Romulan Star Empire. Specifically, Commander Donatra declares herself empress of a new interstellar nation, the Imperial Romulan State, with the result that Romulan space is effectively split in two. The Klingons agree to recognise Donatra's government, eager to encourage division among the Romulan people. The Federation is pressured into showing solidarity with its Klingon allies and so also ends up recognizing the IRS.
The value of space travel was impressed on me at a young age. While my introduction to intergalactic exploration was informal, it left a lasting impact. These lessons in bravery and adventure were held weekly, not counting reruns. I am, of course, referring to the TV show Star Trek.
, for all its schmaltz and camp, has at its heart a very real passion for discovery and an enduring faith in man's untapped potential, as well as his unquenchable thirst for knowledge. It is Star Trek that presented me with the idea that, as the inhabitants of Earth step out into the vast realm of space, we must take that step as a people united or else we will fail.
Continuity Nod: Many. Most significantly to the first two novels of the Star Trek: Titan series and the Star Trek: A Time to... series, which introduced President Bacco and set the political stage for this novel.
To avoid the production costs of having to film a ship landing, the writers dreamed up "transporter" technology, inadvertently creating one of the best known features in the Star Trek Universe and a plot device that would be abused in ways the original writers could never have imagined.
When I first wrote the book, we thought most stars could have planets, but we had no idea of the frequency or of the diversity of ways that exoplanets could form.There's water on Mars, and it was probably once warm; Jupiter's moon Europa likely has a liquid ocean. For exoplanets not in the Earth-like Goldilocks zone around their stars, maybe they have an environment sustainable for non€"Earth-like life. Perhaps there is life out there that is silicon-based rather than carbon-based like our own.