![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the details that gave Star Trek its futuristic feel-medical monitors, hand-held communications devices, automatically sliding doors-have become reality. ![]() “He said, ‘I wanted to know that if it’s not probable, it’s at least possible.’” “Roddenberry told me, ‘I wanted scientists to be able to watch our show, believe it, enjoy it and not laugh at it,’” says Marc Cushman, co-author of These Are The Voyages, a three-volume set about the making of the series. The goal of scientific accuracy began with the creator and executive producer, Gene Roddenberry. This year the cult series celebrates the 50th anniversary of its September 8 premiere. Then, in 1966, came Star Trek, setting the new gold standard of scientific plausibility in TV entertainment. So these fictional life-forms would in reality collapse under their own weight. Unfortunately, as a body’s height is squared, its volume is cubed. Pretty far-fetched, considering that comets are made of ice, rock and dust.Įven quality shows like The Twilight Zone made gaffes, as in the 1962 episode “The Little People,” which postulated humanoids hundreds of feet high. In one early segment a comet’s heat somehow threatens to fry a couple of members of the spacefaring Robinson family. ![]() In the early days of television, small-screen science fiction generally ignored the laws of nature, technology and common sense. ![]()
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