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Uniting the Cosmos: Star Trek's Vision Inspires Our Collective Journey Beyond the Stars
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Star Trek News & Updates
Why Picard’s Story Had to End This Way (ft. Terry Matalas)
“People were like, ‘It must be the most emotional experience to bring them on set!’ It was like, ‘No, it was terrifying!’” Picard Season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas may have been terrified when he reunited the crew of the USS Enterprise-D onboard the USS Enterprise-D, rebuilding the iconic starship’s bridge for just two days of actual filming for the Star Trek finale. But that was only part of the process when it came to telling the final Jean-Luc Picard story, a tale that began with the launch of Star Trek: The Next Generation 35 years ago, but that’s, seemingly now, finally over as the third and final season’s tenth episode, “The Last Generation,” hits. [...]
Star Trek: Resurgence launches in May
There was a time when you couldn’t turn around without tripping over a game set in the Star Trek universe, but those games slowly fell out of style in the wake of the Enterprise TV series. Games like Star Trek: Timelines and Star Trek Online have been filling that void somewhat, but Star Trek: Resurgence aims to provide a more substantial, narrative-driven entry than what’s offered by current Trek titles. Resurgence releases on May 23 for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X.[...]
Star Trek Actor Addresses Reason for Missing TNG Character in Picard Season 3
To be sure, Star Trek: Picard season three pulled off something of a magic trick, bringing back not only the main cast of The Next Generation but also featuring surprising cameos. But by the time the credits rolled on the final episode, there was one main character conspicuously missing from the original lineup of TNG characters: Wesley Crusher. [...]
Star Trek Fun Fact
Star Trek has a significant cultural impact, inspiring many real-life innovations. For example, the concept of the "flip phone" was inspired by the show's communicators, and the name for NASA's space shuttle "Enterprise" was chosen after a write-in campaign by fans.
From Star Trek:
First Contact Day "A holiday celebrated in the Federation on April 5, marking the anniversaries of the flight of the Phoenix and of first contact between Humans and Vulcans in 2063."
The Phoenix was a Human spaceship launched in 2063. Constructed from an old Titan V nuclear ICBM, the Phoenix was designed by Zefram Cochrane, and was the first vessel in Earth history to travel at warp speed (having reached a speed of warp 1.1).
The Vulcans are a humanoid species native to the planet Vulcan. They are one of the founding species of the United Federation of Planets and made First Contact with humans upon learning of their achievement of warp speed.
Science & Technology News & Achievements
A Black Hole Star Could Be the Trippiest Object in Space
A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star. The star is a topological soliton: a smooth, stable, albeit theoretical object. (Skyrmions are another type of topological soliton.) In this case, the vexingly complicated mathematics undergirding the hypothetical object show that it would distort space like a black hole, an object whose gravitational field is so intense that not even light can escape.
GPT-4, AGI, and the Hunt for Superintelligence
For decades, the most exalted goal of artificial intelligence has been the creation of an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, capable of matching or even outperforming human beings on any intellectual task. It’s an ambitious goal long regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension, because of the likelihood of massive social disruption any such AGI would undoubtedly cause. For years, though, such discussions were theoretical. Specific predictions forecasting AGI’s arrival were hard to come by. [...]
Is our Universe standing still? Examining Einstein’s key theory through the cosmic “yin-yang”
Is there such a thing as absolute motion? Modern science, as represented by Einstein’s theory of relativity, says no. After all, absolute motion would require that there exists a single coordinate system — or common reference point — that all observers could agree is stationary. Such a coordinate system doesn’t exist. [...]
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