Fuller assured fans that the show would both introduce brand new elements, species and locations in the Star Trek universe and also reintroduce aliens, ships and technology from previous Star Trek canon. The celebration has already featured a 100-city concert tour with songs from the shows, as well as a touring art exhibit, the Starfleet Academy Experience aboard the Intrepid Museum, and a recreation of the original shooting model of the USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian Institution. We spoke to fellow Trekkies, including a writer, a showrunner and a scientist, about why the series matters to them.
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“The different shows treated science to greater and lesser degrees of carefulness”, he noted.
Star Trek: The Original Series premiered 50 years ago on September 8, 1966.
There are examples in “Star Trek” that illustrate how prescient the show could be, like the concept of communicators. Of course, fans could also purchase various fun merchandise, from their own Starfleet uniforms, to autographed collectibles, to stuffed Tribbles. “We’re creating these in real time [with the show]”, Beyer said, according to a report from Yahoo. I mean, you meet people now – I was talking to a young student recently, and I mentioned that I worked on “Star Trek”, and they said, “Oh, the old one?” It was just a bunch of “technobabble” as we called it.
In other words: He’s helping protect our electronic devices.
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As for the one technological item Batchelor would really like for himself? “I just went through a lot of yard work”.
