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The photon torpedo was the most powerful weapon aboard a starship from the twenty-second through late twenty-fourth centuries. Unlike a directed-energy weapon like a phaser, a photon torpedo represents the ultimate evolution of a projectile or missile-like object. Whether fired from a launcher toward a target, left like a mine in interplanetary or interstellar space, bea med to a location by transporter, or detonated on impact or otherwise, its explosive force was unparalleled as far as destructive power goes.
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'You know, I’ve never seen a sunrise . . . at least, not the way you see them,' says Geordi La Forge to Captain Picard. Like so many people before him, from either birth or a young age, Geordi appeared
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I purchased the hardcover version of "Treknology: The Science of Star Trek" hoping to get an informative story of this wonderful future deep space exploration TV series, and I was not disappointed. The book includes full color photos from the Star Trek series on every page (216 pages), and a biography of the author, Ethan Siegel, Ph.D., professor of Physics and Astronomy (among other endeavors). The Contents of the book includes: 1) Starship Technology; 2) Weapons and Defense; 3) Communications; 4) Computing; 5) Civilian Technology; 6) Medical and Biological, a Conclusion: "Make It So", and also an Index, and the author's photo/biography. Absolutely wonderful book - worthy of display on your coffee table, or by your reading chair. But don't loan this book out to a friend! You'll never see it again.
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Star Trek Treknology by Ethan Siegel
By Bonnie Jacobson on July 15, 2020
I purchased the hardcover version of "Treknology: The Science of Star Trek" hoping to get an informative story of this wonderful future deep space exploration TV series, and I was not disappointed. The book includes full color photos from the Star Trek series on every page (216 pages), and a biography of the author, Ethan Siegel, Ph.D., professor of Physics and Astronomy (among other endeavors). The Contents of the book includes: 1) Starship Technology; 2) Weapons and Defense; 3) Communications; 4) Computing; 5) Civilian Technology; 6) Medical and Biological, a Conclusion: "Make It So", and also an Index, and the author's photo/biography. Absolutely wonderful book - worthy of display on your coffee table, or by your reading chair. But don't loan this book out to a friend! You'll never see it again.
By Bonnie Jacobson on July 15, 2020
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It's actually really eye opening to see just how close real science is to recreating - or rather creating for the first time in the real world - the sort of fanciful technology we've come to love in our sci-fi
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