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Pretty neat how Data fictionally spent about 50 years trying to develop a sense of humor without success, yet in the real world, Google has developed a highly evolved sense of humor almost entirely by accident in less time than a human learns about fart jokes.

One scenario is that with a "business as usual" approach the planet is eaten up by appr. 2050.

No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer... The answer can be "maybe, sometimes, sort-of, or with added caveats".

...humans will evolve into super salamanders with 2 hearts.

I wonder if the auctioned off the costume of the character Kivas Fajo from the TNG episode "The Most Toys"? It would have been an appropriate acquisition for these bidders under the cirumstances.

...this when they read this article? ;-)

"The Council decides that until a way to counteract the warp field effect is found, the best course of action to take is to slow it down. To slow the effect down, areas susceptible to warp fields are to be restricted to essential travel only and all Federation vessels are to travel no faster than Warp factor 5 except in cases of extreme emergency." ST:TNG - Force of Nature

Depends on which forehead you adhere to (sorry for the pun): Episode TOS 3x11: Day of the Dove or TNG 4x15: First Contact? Doesn't it?

Depends on which forehead you adhere to (sorry for the pun): Episode TOS 3x11: Day of the Dove or TNG 4x15: First Contact? Doesn't it?

It's funny most of the people who rank Sisko low can't seem to spell his name right.

Sisko is by far the most human of Captains. Then again that goes for all of DS9 where the crew was actually about a group of characters rather than "alien of the week" like TOS, TNG and VOY.

Sisko irradiated a freakin' planet just to piss off the Maquis. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Solosos_III/

Sisko>Kirk>Picard>Janeway>Archer (Sorry but I couldn't take Archer seriously having seen Bakula in drag on Quantum Leap)

I'm not sure about episodes, but the scifi moments that stand out most for me are the end of the the ST:TNG season 3 finale The Best of Both Worlds, Part I, and the beginning of the BSG episode Downloaded, in which Alternate Baltar is first seen.

I have some life, but it's a slippery slope, isn't it?

Best Star Trek ever.

which had the decency to reuse old ideas that had been on the shelf for a couple decades.

That's not always a good thing.

Wow... the headline had me confused. I thought they were talking about this ISS ship instead.

A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.

That describes Quadrotriticale.

Unless you've got this: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Food_synthesiz er

The galaxy is threatened by a giant space amoeba.

It may not be tech-specific, but Memory Alpha has the most detailed technological descriptions behind Star Trek technology that I've seen. For example, take a look at their phaser page.

It may not be tech-specific, but Memory Alpha has the most detailed technological descriptions behind Star Trek technology that I've seen. For example, take a look at their phaser page.

Some misguided trekkies would send you to Memory Alpha, but that place is strictly bush league. If you want the best in Treknology, all the way down to fictional elements and even elementary particles, you've gotta head to Ex Astris Scientia. When I found this place, it blew my freaking mind.

Engage!

I was reading a Wikipedia article about a Wiki vandal. It said he vandalized Wiki and this Star Trek wiki. So I was like ooh... what's this... and then it hit me. This vandal, who tried to damage this wiki, had instead inadvertently drawn my traffic to it. Thanks, Willie on Wheels! :D

It may be a little cliche, but... does this remind anyone else of the Dermal Regenerator of Start Trek fame

Wonder what will happen when the shield generators for these shields fail? Will they have a miracle worker like Scotty or LaForge around? :)

Wonder what will happen when the shield generators for these shields fail? Will they have a miracle worker like Scotty or LaForge around? :)

Wonder what will happen when the shield generators for these shields fail? Will they have a miracle worker like Scotty or LaForge around? :)

Wonder what will happen when the shield generators for these shields fail? Will they have a miracle worker like Scotty or LaForge around? :)

they will suddenly discover that they've invented a Tox Uthat ? ;-)

Hm, better idea: just skip a few steps and go directly for the totally sci-fi approach:

Let's build a Dyson Sphere to feed our Matrioshka Brain. :-D

Hmm.. thinking about this, I think Google's new data center is starting to scare me :O

Dr Reyga is finally getting his due...

Hey, Benjamin Sisko used a sextant when recreating an ancient Bajoran voyage.

Hey, Benjamin Sisko used a sextant when recreating an ancient Bajoran voyage.

Hey, Benjamin Sisko used a sextant when recreating an ancient Bajoran voyage.

Sounds like Google is an emerging lifeform.

I guess you must have missed the Ferengi who was yelling 'Developers, developers, developers'? ;P

They are a race of cunning businessmen after all :D

Way ahead of you:

There's coffee in that nebula!
- Captain Janeway, stardate 48546

"Easy: Change the gravitational constant of the universe."

"What?"

"Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the asteroid's orbit."

"How do you do that?"

"You just DO it, that's all. GAHH! Where is that doctor?"

"What Geordi is saying is that we do not have the ability to change the gravitational constant of the universe."

"Well, then...never mind."

        - Q, Geordi, Data

...with the Exocomps.

Vulcan Love Slave.... thats all I have to say on this matter :-P

Wasn't the real attractiveness of synthehol the fact that you could be drunk as hell and become completely sobre with just a hypospray of sorts? An interesting article here

I am almost expecting first contact with the Vulcans.

I'm afraid you're about 57 years too early for that. First contact takes place on April 5, 2063.

I don't know if that was intentional, unconscious, or not, but the script above is very similar to the opening scene of A Fistful of Datas, except they all bug Picard in person.

Some stuff is just too important to put down in writing, after all. I have several coworkers who practice the advice of AG Eliot Spitzer (speaking facetiously about criminal behavior, but if the shoe fits...) and "Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail."

Ummm... those were isolinear chips (holographic data storage), not flash storage. And Data wasn't putting them in a new order to "overcome some technical problem"... he was putting them all back into the command computer so that the egines could be re-activated and they could escape from impending doom. (This is because another crew member, afflicted with a virus, removed all the chips in a fit of drunk-like behavior. This is from the episode The Naked Now.)

So I think it's pretty clear that flash memory is not "hear to stay" but merely a stepping-stone towards the true "technology unchained" that Star Trek predicts...

....ummm.... I mean ... it's just a TV show.

But, wasnt there an episode of Star Trek TNG that deciphered this for us some 10 odd years ago?

Considering the infinite diversity in Star Trek, you might just be ogling the booty of a shapely male crewmember. Heck, if the show could put skirts on male crewmembers...

The parent is referring to the Star Trek TNG episode The Neutral Zone, where some people who were cryogenically frozen in the 20th centry are awaken on board the Enterprise. Hilarity ensues when the wealthy stock-broker tycoon discovers that "the economics of the 24th centry are somewhat different" - money is no longer used on Earth and his vast "fortune" is worthless.

>Why, then, do you assume that humans do but machines won't?

I suppose for the same reason I'm not a fan of the "living Earth" hypothesis (beyond the "42" sense, of course). But, to answer your question, as Captain Phillipa Louvois said, I must admit, "I don't know."

Actually, what is needed is some sort of main deflector dish:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Deflector_dish

where they had a computer simulation war going on between Vendekar and Eminiar where they fired simulated missile attacks against each other and every person who was in the virtual blast zone was ordered to report to a disintegration station.
They saved a lot on buildings, equipment and military hardware and still got to kill millions of people. For some reason
I think that solution will appeal to many of our so-called "Leaders".

Here's a link to that Episodes plot...:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armaged don

I think it's more likely that warp drive is tearing holes in space. Warp drive speed limit, NOW!

In the "real" universe, it is Praxis that explodes, and we receive the Klingons for a peace treaty.

I guess now this means we'll have to take the iniative and go meet Chancellor Gorkon.

... the better SF reference is not to "Fantastic Voyage", for that movie used mAcrotech made tiny, without any changes allowing for different effects of nano-scale. The atomic-powered minisub was a normal atomic-powered minisub, the two-handed surgical laser was a normal two-handed surgical laser, and the madatory busty female was a normal mandatory busty female. They were simply rendered smaller, that's all.

In contrast, Borg nano-technology takes full advantage of the unique properties of objects in small scale, just as does the self-assembling peptide nanofibers referenced in the announcement.

We wouldn't want our SF references to be unrealistic, would we?