Star Trek

Navy's Future Command Center Looks Just Like the Star Trek Enterprise

A research lab inside the U.S. Navy tasked with dreaming up the future of the armed force has been busy working on a new command center design. It's suitably high tech--and is undeniably influenced by Star Trek.READ»

Close-Up on Hollywood's Creature Teacher

Visual-effects guru Alex Alvarez builds the film industry's hottest new talents, one geek at a time.READ»

Magnetic Blood Cleaning Procedure Could Save Lives, Star-Trek Style

Here's a medical innovation that's pretty amazing: It's a blood filter that could actually reduce deaths from sepsis in hospitals. The system works by removing dangerous bacteria not by using fine porous filtration, but instead the ...READ»

The Interfaces Aboard the New Starship Enterprise

OOOii designed the (fictional) interfaces in Star Trek and Minority Report. Here's a 360-degree tour of their latest workREAD»

Could Real-Life Tricorder Inventions Combat the Next Pandemic?

Swine flu still rumbles on in the background, and it is still dangerous--but could two new inventions revealed this week give us Star Trek-like medical technology to help us combat future pandemics? Claims that scientists have ...READ»

12 Leadership Lessons From the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise

Between liaisons with Pantone hued alien females, conflicts with empire-building cyborg killing machines, and encounters on new planets that always results in the death of a red shirted security officer, koans of management ...READ»

'Kingon' Invasion: Burger King and Paramount Ink Blockbuster Marketing Deal

After going three-for-three in drawing public criticism for its Whopper Virgins, Texican and Square Butts campaigns, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has scored another trifecta: a three-picture Burger King marketing tie-in with Viacom's Paramount Pictures, starting with Friday's release of Star Trek.READ»

Scientist Teleport Particles a Few Meters, Beaming Up Kirk Still Far Off

Teleportation is no longer science fiction. If that information is hard to swallow check this out: A U.S. science team has successfully teleported a bunch of Ytterbium metal ions across their laboratory. For real. Previous ...READ»

How Cisco's CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist

A hard-core republican turns Cisco into a socialist enterprise -- one with $26 billion in cash.READ»

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PR Lessons from the Starship Farragut

What can the Starship Farragut teach us about creativity in communications?  That’s the question we posed to Mark Hildebrand, the producer and director of award winning fan films based on the 1960s Star Trek television ...READ»