The future is now, at least as far as the technology in TV’s best-loved space adventure series is concerned. When Star Trek was first broadcast in 1966, at lot of its technology was necessarily speculative. The Original Series first aired in a world without widescreen televisions, personal computers, mobile devices or the internet. Like the best science fiction, though, Star Trek was ahead of the game in portraying technologies analogous to these and other gadgets that, in many cases, were years away from becoming an everyday reality. Technological progress proceeds apace, however, especially when it’s inspired by visionaries such as Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry, who insisted on scientific credibility in his creation whenever it was practical. After 50 years of Star Trek on TV and film we live in a…
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