Ahead warp factor one
Image courtesy - Reddit In case you thought the title appears from some sci-fi movie or, series, it indeed is! This famous line marked the end of an episode for most of the legendary Star Trek – The Original Series (TOS). The warp factor indicated the target speed the famous starship ‘ Enterprise’ would attain; warp factor one stood for light-speed. My fascination for the series got ignited after I watched a documentary “For the Love of Spock” about Leonard Nimoy who played the epic character Spock; what followed was 60 episodes of Star Trek absorbed over 35 days. Broadcast in 1966-69, the series put the voyages of the Enterprise in an inter galactic space 300 years into the future. The last episode preceded man’s landing on the moon by six weeks, with several episodes referencing moon landing as a retrospective event. Why re-discover Star Trek – TOS? Prototyping a future To imagine a future in certain scientific details that’s not 10, 20 but 300 years away is more than just...