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 Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2023 11:51 am Post subject: Star Trek: AARP |
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From the August/September 2023, Volume 66, Number 5B issue of the AARP Magazine.
10 Shows That Changed Our Lives.
The Show That Inspired Us All About The Future: Star Trek.
By focusing on aliens rather than humans, Star Trek (1966 - 69) smuggled contemporary social commentary past censors. But its biggest influence --- besides dozens of TV and movie spin-offs and innumerable imitators --- was in opening our eyes. "To boldly go where no man has gone before" became so synonymous with space exploration that NASA even hired actress Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura) to recruit astronauts. Scientific American called Trek "the gold standard of scientific plausibility in TV entertainment," presaging actual gizmos and innovations such as medical monitors and the internet (Mr. Spock's "computer library"). Watching an episode where Captain Kirk saves Spock using his handheld communicator led Martin Cooper to invent the mobile phone, and Lieutenant Commander Data's computer music on Star Trek: The Next Generation inspired Karlheinz Brandenburg to come up with the MP3 digital format. |
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