Tech from Trek

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:16 am

Haven't seen this yet so:

Isn't it amazing all the things that came from Trek.
Cell phones, PDAs, touchscreens, MRIs and PET and CAT scans (the new no giant scary loud machine kind) and the like.
They even have "hyposprays", they inject without breaking the skin (though can't draw blood yet).
So, what's you guyzes feelings on the matter?

Post by **Teaos** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:17 am

The stuff we make is better. I doesnt blow up and have shrapnel inside it.

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:18 am

Teaos wrote:The stuff we make is better. I doesnt blow up and have shrapnel inside it.

The stuff we make isn't powered by plasma either though

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:19 am

The stuff we make is better. I doesnt blow up and have shrapnel inside it.

Haha very funny.

I am serious. All of this stuff, and more, was inspired by Trek. What do you think. Technology that started in a TV show. Cool, right.

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:20 am

stitch626 wrote:Haha very funny.

I am serious. All of this stuff, and more, was inspired by Trek. What do you think. Technology that started in a TV show. Cool, right.

Trek has always been a case of art imitating life, and then life imitating art, back and forth.

For instance the original concepts with the Enterprise bridge and layout and such was based on navy ships of course, which everyone knows. But then the navy started exploring Enterprise as a study model for more efficient bridge layouts.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:23 am

I didn't know that the Navy was studying the Enterprise.

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:26 am

stitch626 wrote:I didn't know that the Navy was studying the Enterprise.

It was mentioned I think in the TNG Encyclopedia as a side note under the entry "bridge" I think.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:26 am

All of this stuff, and more, was inspired by Trek.

I think a lot of it is just coincidence. Mobile phones and touch screens are a nature progression.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:34 am

But not just the tech progression.
Cell phones are almost the same shape as the TOS comunicators. (the Razor is really close) They didn't have to be.
I mean, come on. The US military spend millions trying to make a transporter just like the one in TOS. (for obvious tactical reasons, drop bomb on location... "we never launched any bomb")

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:37 am

stitch626 wrote:But not just the tech progression.
Cell phones are almost the same shape as the TOS comunicators. (the Razor is really close) They didn't have to be.
I mean, come on. The US military spend millions trying to make a transporter just like the one in TOS. (for obvious tactical reasons, drop bomb on location... "we never launched any bomb")

Plus a lot of the nerdy guys who tend to work in electronics and what not are often familiar with Sci Fi.

There is definitely overlap, even if something would have been invented anyway, Trek is very much part of American culture.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:40 am

And there's the Jeri Ryan alarm clock.
Now tell me that Trek did not influence that!

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:54 am

stitch626 wrote:And there's the Jeri Ryan alarm clock...

What does she do to wake you up?

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:56 am

Tsukiyumi wrote:
stitch626 wrote:And there's the Jeri Ryan alarm clock...
What does she do to wake you up?

That is so wrong.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon May 12, 2008 2:59 am

Teaos wrote:
All of this stuff, and more, was inspired by Trek.
I think a lot of it is just coincidence. Mobile phones and touch screens are a nature progression.

Is it? Or is something more.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Mon May 12, 2008 3:00 am

Tsukiyumi wrote:
stitch626 wrote:And there's the Jeri Ryan alarm clock...
What does she do to wake you up?

That's what I meant by innuendo.