The science of Star Trek
I wrote to Gene Roddenbury about Piccard being very much like Navy Captains I knew on Navy ships I was on travelling all over the globe, and about Spock and of course Riker. He wrote back and indicated that a Navy Captain was exactly like what he had in mind with Piccard unlike the NASA-woman-in-a-diaper-Navy-ca ptain. We see the Enterprise travelling in space at “warp” speed obviously faster than light which I believe is possible. At least the mathematical equations indicate if one can break the light speed barrier, the equations go back to normal on the other side of light speed, just like the air gets smooth again once the sound barrier is broken. However, to go to other star systems, due to the vast distances, the “warp” light speed has to increase exponentially, not linearly, much like the Richter scale in earthquake magnitude descriptions. More likely, from the way people have observed UFO movement and extremely fast speeds, they are probably travelling interdimensionally or travelling through time. Some guy in his garage will probably invent a real space, or time, or dimension travel machine, not NASA or the USAF or PhDs which just refine and expand on past inventions of flight and rockets, not create new systems as the Wright brothers did. What is often missed by Trekkies wrapped up in the “science” of Star Trek are all of the philosophical and metaphysical and social concepts presented. In most episodes of Star Trek there are 2 or 3 plots of science, philosophy, and social interaction going on simultaneously which is amazing in itself that so much can be well written and given to the viewer in an hour or so of TV program with commercials.
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