Star Trek Discovery premiered last week. This week is the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Whatever your opinions of the new series or of CBS’s distribution methods, that fact gets me thinking about one thing in particular. Star Trek taught us that space is awesome. When I discussed real world discoveries inspired […]
Star Trek has inspired countless scientist. The character of Wesley Crusher was essentially written for me: A young child watching Star Trek: The Next Generation because her father loved the original series. As a teenager, Kathryn Janeway was the first woman I saw on television who got as excited about science as I did. Sometimes […]
It’s fairly common for a superhero’s origin story to involve some sort of lab accident. Bruce Banner’s gamma rays and Peter Parker’s radioactive spider being particularly famous examples. And of course, “unstable molecules” almost seemed to be Marvel’s go-to for a while during the Silver Age. And yet there aren’t a lot of stories about […]