Proper trekkie question, but do you think scenearios like star trek will even happen.....?

Question

...ie, will we ever be able to travel the way they do, or get lost in the delta quadrant lol!

My friends always laugh at me lol because i am fascinated by space and love star trek!!

Dont think the specs and braces helped when i was younger either lol!

Lol, sorry sparky i must not be a true fan then lol!

Answer 1

probably

Answer 2

Ok let me just correc tthat other guy. Trekker and Trekkie are both valid terms for a star trek fan. Trekkers are people who go to the convention, who watch the tv show. Trekkies are people who know almost everythign about the show's world, from phasers to warp engines, the whole shebang.

Basically, Trekker = Real life fan, Trekkie = Fantasy Fan.

Now that's cleared up...

I definitely think that things liek that will happen. We've already made the first steps taking inspiration from the show, especially from the Original Series and The Next Generation: for example, automatic sliding doors in malls, and on a higher level, hyposprays.

American Pharmaceuticals i think it is, they're experimenting with a non-injection based method of administrating medication and it is a lot like the hypospray from the Next Gen and subsequent series.

On a maybe more exciting note though, how'd you like a home Transporter?!

Its happening. Scientists recently teleported an orange from one side of the Missisippi river to the other, successfully. I read about it in my local paper about a month ago.

Like Holographics, the technology is still in its infancy so there's going to be a while before it's widespread knowledge.

On the travelling note, well Antimatter exists. Usually it's found around Black Holes i believe. As for Warp engines, we're not there yet, but we do have Hydrogen based engines...Hydrogen when compacted forms Deuterium, or heavy water, which is used in the show to power Impulse engines.

Hope those gave you a little snippet of hope for it working. Sadly i think the only thing that wont happen is the abolition of currency. At the moment humanity is more like the ferengi than the federation.

Answer 3

Ok, most of the real stuff has already been said - and so has a lot of garbage. Here's a few items to put this right:

When travelling at relativistic speeds (i.e. close to the speed of light), time is affected and so you wouldn't notice the years drifting by. Since your 'anticipated host' would be travelling at the same speed relative to yourself, neither would they. Time is not a straight line; it is highly fluid in many respects.

Xenadis, you started out ok and then blew all your own credibility out of the water. Teleporting an orange? What utter rubbish! Also that bit about hydrogen-powered spacecraft engines; the idea has been postulated but the technology does not yet exist to construct the housing which would be required to contain the fusion reaction. Just think of it as trying to carry a thermonuclear explosion in a box and you'll see what I mean. And heavy water is not deuterium, it is deuterium oxide (deuterium itself is heavy hydrogen). You don't get deuterium by compacting ordinary hydrogen as you would still have the electrons & protons but no neutrons. Deuterium has one neutron in each atomic nucleus, along with the proton and the orbital electron, ordinary hydrogen does not.

It seems that Xenadis' approach is more one of fantasy rather than fact - and appears also to be very easily swayed by 'love-it-to-be-true' stories such as the teleported orange.

We've seen much of science fiction become science fact, but also much that hasn't made the transition. I think Star Trek will follow the same pattern.

Answer 4

I've never been a trekkie, because I hate the connotations associated with labelling. But like you I find the universe a fascinating subject to try and fully comprehend. I saw Star Trek Nemesis last night and it struck me how alike a vessel like the Enterprise is to that of ancient mariners ships. The star charts in the on-board computers are more daunting than the rigging constructed to control the wind with a selection of sails hung from masts. In this episode, the captain met his nemesis, who was a clone of himself some 30years younger. He was a Romulen General, a revered enemy of the federation. None the less, when they met they started discussing how alike they were. The captains scepticism was tried to its fullest because here was someone created in his form, working for the forces of evil trying to make small talk about the obvious likenesses they shared. The analogy I'm trying to make is that as we grow older, it gets difficult not to grow impatient at our decedents making the same mistakes made decades earlier.

Answer 5

actually the mobile phone was shaped from star trek.
as it is written in the bible all things are possible.
tho I doubt if teleport would work for two or more reasons.
the energy involved even to move a machhead would be colosol never mind a human.
If u could teleport a human how are u gonna teleport his mind then rearange it correctly..nah forget that idea.
the spaceship is feasible tho and the speed well maybe not light speed.
but a thing a lot of people are overlokin is the vast distances here 4 years to our closed star apart from our own thats only to get there at the speed of light 186000 miles per second.
I think for quite a long time we are limited to our own solar system.
So beem me up scottie..

Answer 6

At some point in the evolution of humanity space travel like that will in all probably exist, but not unfortunately for many thousands of years. We are already benefiting from technology which appeared in the original series, i.e. mobile phones, scanners, portable computers, hypo-sprays. The potential for transporter technology is in fibre optic cable and how they work ( I watched that on the Beeb many moons ago). I'm only sorry that I won't be around to see the other good stuff which is bound to appear.

Answer 7

It is fun to think so. But with what we know about physics, even traveling at the speed of light, it would take about 4 years to the next closest star (other than the sun). And at that speed, any collision with small dust sized particles would be a disaster, and then there is radiation.
Something like a transporter would be limited by the speed of light. I know research has been done on this (I know an engineer that worked on this).
But again it is fun to think about this. Maybe if we could change dimensions, then it could be possible.

Answer 8

It would be nice to think that it will happen. I only hope it's soon as I probably won't be around to see it otherwise ! If technology keeps advancing at it's current rate, maybe in a couple of hundred years or so people will be travelling between the stars on a day to day basis. Can't wait !

Answer 9

Well if you look at TOS (orig series) how many things are there now?
We have communicators (mob phones)
Them little medi kits like bones had.. not quite as advanced but they are getting close.
Shuttle crafts, the nasa space shuttles

and various other things that have suddenly gone from my head (grr)

I'm sure it will all happen eventually.. except possible transporters, as apparently you must heat the body to such a temperature to "dematerialise" it you'd be dead!

I am too fasinated by it all!

Answer 10

Good progs
But what about time -dilation?
Quick whizz round the universe and 10,000 years have passed when you get home! Better not have left the gas on! The back-pay situation could be quite interesting though

Answer 11

i hope the only thing that will come true is the end of money, what i mean is no more need to purchase or items having a value, everything should be available to all and at no cost