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Star Trek :Background

Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek, in addition to ten feature films, with an eleventh in post-production due for release in May 09, dozens of computer and video games, hundreds of novels and fan stories, several fan-created video productions, as well as a themed attraction in Las Vegas. The original TV series alone has created a cult phenomena and has spawned many pop culture references

Star Trek :Background

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Multiculturalism

Next generation Acceptance worf first kilngon in star fleet

Accepatance

Ferengi and klingons in starfleetFemale commanderAssimilation-borg

Star Trek TechnologyMany of the futuristic technologies from Star Trek have been created or are currently being researched e.g., the VISOR a seeing system for the blind. Data, a character on Star Trek TNG, is a robot with arificial intelligence.

1996-2002, NASA established the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program, which sponsored some speculative work on warp drives. In 2007, physicist Richard Obousy proposed that a warp drive could be created by directly manipulating the extra dimensions of string theory.

The phaser gun comes to us courtesy of Ionatron, which produces what it calls "directed energy weapons. " According to the company's Website, its devices produce " man-made lightning" to disable people or vehicles that threaten our security.”

Purdue researchers using nanotechnology this week have taken a step toward creating an optical cloaking device that could make objects invisible.

Cloaking Device’s today- stealth aircraft, such as radar-absorbing dark paint, optical camouflage, cooling the outer surface to minimize electromagnetic emissions or other techniques to minimize other EM emissions are practically cloaked vehicle's.

Star Trek TechnologyThe Hypospray is the promise of painless needle so far all hope lies with SonoPrep. According to the company's Web site, the SonoPrep device is the brainchild of Robert Langer, an MIT-trained chemical engineer who hit upon a novel way to penetrate the skin's outermost layer.

Computers are already on-par with Star Trek in many ways: We have rudimentary voice-recognition, auto-pilot, and a vast, highly-organized information network available almost anywhere.

In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek will be invented within 100 years.

The United States Navy has been funding research into plasma based cloaking for several years

Universal Translator - Speech experts from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have made a new device. The device is able to read words that people mouth - rather than speak aloud - and translate them into a different language, according to a report from New Scientist.

Star Trek Technology“Physics genius plans to make 'Star Trek' replicator a reality” USA Today

“Star Trek technology inspires new ways to screen patient body” Virtual Medical WorldsDr. Robb introduced the audience of medical imaging specialists to the fascinating world of

"Bones McCoy”, his new imaging technology was inspired by Dr McCoys’ scanner.

MIT researchers said this week they have found a way to use a tractor beam of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a microchip. The technology is known as optical tweezers and MIT researchers have found a way to combine this powerful tool for moving, controlling and measuring objects for use in building and manipulating items on a chip.

University of Washington said they were experimenting with a device right out of Star Trek: a Tricorder. In addition, Purdue University researchers said they created a handheld sensing system its creators said could be used for testing foods for dangerous bacterial contaminants including salmonella.

Star Trek TechnologyDr. Martin Cooper, inventor of the modern mobile phone, credits the TOS communicator as being his inspiration for the technology. Although the first "brick" mobile phones were much larger, modern phones strongly resemble the original series communicator (image 1). Bluetooth may have been inspired by Lt Uhuras’ communicator (2nd image).

Vocera's Communications System is uncannily like those science-fiction gadgets. It uses hands-free, voice-activated devices that users can carry around their necks to talk with co-workers any time, anywhere within range of the enterprise's Wi-Fi network.

No real-world equivalent to subspace communication has been developed. However, many other aspects of Starfleet communications technology are commonplace. For example, locator functionality is implemented via GPS, LoJack, RFID, and radio direction finder devices.

World issues

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books

World issues

War, slavery, movie whales, rebels, acceptance, ETC quote from wiki + books

Borg

Cultural

Trekkies in dictionary, learn klingon, conventions, fan movies, parodys

Cultural• “Resistance is futile" is a catch phrase used by the

Borg of the Star Trek fictional universe, it is now commonly used within society.

Other commonly used Phrases• “Beam me up Scotty”, "Live long and prosper."

(Vulcan salutation, Star Trek) • "Space, the final frontier these are the voages of

the starship Enterprise. It’s continuing mission is to seek out new life and civilisations and to boldly go where no one has gone before." (Opening voice-over, Star Trek). It was oiginally

Economics

The Star Trek: the Motion Picture made over $138,000,000 world wide. The estimated total earned for the entire “Star Trek” franchise is over $6 billion.

Ebay, Amazon, Itunes, costume stores, websites totaling in the hundreds of thousands are all dedicated to selling Star Trek toys, DVD’s, costumes, memrorbilla, themed games such as Star Trek Monopoly and much more. This prouduces a global market, which is still providing millions to Paramount Pictures and to the community.

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The sources listed above are written and published by fans, newspapers and medical or scientific journals. The fan created media and documents are not as reliable as they present a lot of bias towards the show. However, the books and journals are more reliable and usefull as they are written by professionals and those involved with Star Trek.