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Who could have guessed, watching the Starship Enterprise first set out in the 60s, that its five year mission would span four decades and bring Earth so much of the technology that today we take for granted?
At a time when even a landline house phone was still seen by many as a luxury, families entered the fictional world of Star Trek, watching in awe as Captain James T. Kirk spoke to his crew via a handheld communicator. Forty years on, with satellite navigation a given, billions of us own mobile technology. Already considering flip-top cell phones pretty outmoded, we attach Bluetooth devices, with no thought of Lt Uhura opening the hailing frequencies through an elaborate earpiece. Nor do we take a second glance at the handheld PDA, the modern day development from Kirk's daily captain's log. The touch screen technology of Star Trek is rapidly becoming second-nature to us: not only do we use it on our mobile phones and other hand-held devices, we tap screens at the airport, the station, the library, the supermarket - and as we enter and leave these buildings, we pass through doors that magically glide open before us, not stopping to consider their link with Star Trek fiction.
The icing on the cake is our ability to see people at the same time that we're speaking to them. In the original Star Trek series, the crew on the Enterprise bridge can be seen engaging in serious audio-visual communication with the outside, strange new worlds. Modern technology has developed this concept of video-conferencing on a huge scale, making it a crucial element in business and political communications, whilst also providing us with the more humble webcam. Even with Captain Kirk at its helm, the bold Starship Enterprise could also have been blindly going where no man had gone before - it had no windows. Without the giant viewscreen on the bridge, Kirk and his crew would have been unable to see where they were heading. It's strangely ironic to think that today's modern society can view Star Trek DVDs via their flatscreen TV.
In medical science we can find further links. Picture Dr "Bones" McCoy valiantly saving the day, diagnosing diseases by scanning the body with his trusty tricorder device, surely the forerunner of today's MRI and CAT scan procedures. And in the same way that "Bones" used his hypospray to painlessly pass medicine through the skin, modern day product design has brought us the Jet Injector.
Tricorder technology was also favoured by the Enterprise crew when it came to checking out the safety of new civilizations. Today, many emergency response teams use chemical detection equipment to help identify a threat, while police officers have Taser guns at their disposal, a weapon designed to stun - not unlike Star Trek's hand-held phaser, which could also be set to kill. When there are problems with language barriers, the universal translator comes into its own: in today's world the US army uses the Phraselator in Iraq for translating speech. Some websites, including Google, also adopt this technology and the first mobile phones with speech translation are coming onto the market - the next generation of the hand-held communicator.
Some of Star Trek's fictional creations have not quite made it into reality yet, but give them time. Building on the tricorder and MRI/CAT scan concept, a company based in San Diego is developing a small portable device that can detect illnesses when it touches the skin. Meanwhile, the US Air Force Research Laboratory is working on a portable non-lethal deterrent weapon that uses a laser system to temporarily blind the enemy. It's name? The Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response (PHASR) gun.
In today's fast-pace modern society, we all have days when we wish Scotty would just beam us up. Nobody's managed to turn the transporter into reality yet, but who knows? Maybe, quietly tucked away in a windowless laboratory somewhere in our new civilization, someone's working on it!
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What are the names of all of the Star Trek Enterprise captains?
In chronological order:
Jonathan Archer (Star Trek: Enterprise). This Enterprise does not the same registry number as the others in the Star Fleet registry, which leads to confusion with respect of the number of Enterprise spaceships. This confusion is mentioned in ST:DS9, "Tribbles and Tribulations")
The Enterprise from The Original Series, usually considered as "the first Enterprise" had two full captains - Christopher Pike (in the pilot) and James T. Kirk. Spock and Montgomery Scott were also acting captains in the Series, although without the rank of full captain. Non-canonic sources also mention Robert April before Pike.
In "The Motion Picture", Kirk is an admiral and the command of Enterprise belongs to Captain Willard Decker. In the second movie, Spock is full captain of the Enterprise.
So, Enterprise:
- Robert April
- Christopher Pike
- James T Kirk
- Willard Decker
- Spock
Enterprise A, (built after The Enterprise was decommissioned, then stolen by Kirk and destroyed in a battle with the Klingons in "The Search for Spock") had three officers with the rank of Captain - Kirk (who had the command), Spock and Montgomery Scott.
Enterprise B appears in ST:Generations under the command of Captain John Harriman. After the events in the movie, the ship is repaired. There are no canonical sources for the captains, but two are mentioned:
- Captain Tomas Johnson, Jr.
- Demora Sulu
Enterprise C appears in ST:TNG, "Yesterday's Enterprise" under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett. The ship is taken back in time under the command of helmsman Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Castillo. No other captains are mentioned before Rachel Garrett.
Enterprise D is commissioned at the beginning of the TNG series under the command of Jean Luc Picard, and destroyed also under his command in "Generations".
Enterprise E is commissioned after the D is destroyed, also under Picard's command.
I guess I covered everybody.
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