"Star Trek in the style of Picasso"
A digital art creation using technology of the future.
We finally came off the waitlist and got to use an incredible new technology called DALL-E! DALL-E is an AI system with a neural network that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
The image above is the first digital art creation by First Contact Day. While not for sale yet, it can be viewed through the link below on OpenSea in our Star Trek x Famous Artists Collection.
This new technology will have huge implications for advertising, media distribution, and entertainment industries. It is expected to jumpstart an explosion of innovation amongst creatives adding another tool to their kits.
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Star Trek News & Updates
Star Trek Fun Fact
To speak fluent Klingon, you need to grasp more than 4,000 words.
Kate Mulgrew Getting A Star Trek Solo Series?
Ever since Paramount+ debuted the Star Trek: The Next Generation spinoff Star Trek: Picard, fans have wondered if other franchise favorites might also get to lead their own series. Now, Star Trek: Voyager star Kate Mulgrew revealed that it might be a possibility for her character, Admiral Kathryn Janeway. The actress talked about it during the 56-Year Mission Las Vegas convention. When asked if there had been any talks of doing a “Star Trek: Janeway”, gesturing toward the crowd she said, “Very simply, that’s up to you.” Elaborating on the prospective project, Kate Mulgrew continued via CBR, “There are talks, you know? There are conversations.” While the possibility of a new Trek spinoff might be exciting, the actress noted that she hasn’t been offered anything directly. She explained that Paramount will probably base their decision on the value and reaction to Picard. “I’m sure all of you loved it, didn’t you? I don’t know what they’re thinking, but I think that Janeway was one of a kind,” she said at the popular Trek event. [...]
How The Wrath Of Khan Saved Star Trek
40 years ago, the future of Star Trek was hanging in the balance. The TV series had been cancelled in 1969, and an attempted revival with 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture had been less than successful. The second film – grudgingly greenlit by its studio on a vastly reduced budget – was itself drifting into the seas of troubled production until, at the eleventh hour, director Nicholas Meyer came aboard. With Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, he not only saved the film, but the franchise. The story has been repeated so often it’s now a cliche: Gene Roddenberry first pitched Star Trek to the NBC network as ‘Wagon Train to the stars’. Roddenberry had experience with television Westerns, having written for Bat Masterson and Jefferson Drum, and contributed an award-winning episode to Have Gun – Will Travel: all part of the extraordinary proliferation of Western series and films that gained popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. [...]
‘Star Trek’ Cast Members Talk Franchise’s Embrace of ‘Infinite Diversity’ at Dragon Con 2022
“What do you say to the unfortunate people on the internet who think Star Trek is too progressive?” Scott Beckett asked the panel of “Star Trek” series cast members in earnest on Saturday during a panel at the Dragon Con sci-fi and fantasy convention in Atlanta.
The 39-year-old software engineer from Atlanta grew up watching “Star Trek” and it strongly shaped his beliefs, he said later. “It kind of built my values as a kid in a way because I didn’t have any other values, really.”
The politics of “Star Trek” are familiar territory for cast members like Blu del Barrio, Wilson Cruz, Michelle Hurd and Anthony Rapp, who have played roles on “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Star Trek: Picard.” The four performers spoke in front of a thousand screaming fans in downtown Atlanta. [...]
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.
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Science & Technology News & Achievements
Ghostly "Einstein Crosses" Spotted in Deep Space Could Help Resolve Dark Energy Mystery
A dazzling quartet of beaming, bluish “ghost” images representing a quasar 8 billion light years from Earth, the eerie Einstein Cross looks strange enough that, to the untrained eye, it might seem entirely out of place in our cosmos. Another word that may spring to mind while looking at it, at least for some, could be “manufactured.”
However, despite its striking visual appearance, the Einstein Cross is far from being evidence of a distant alien megastructure. In fact, it is entirely in keeping with the predictions of the famous physicist from whom it borrows its name. [...]
How would Socrates teach science?
The Socratic method is personal, typically involving conversation in a small group. Because it is interactive, it takes time: time spent listening to ideas and composing and posing questions that should lead students to reflect and reconsider their underlying assumptions, the relevance and implications of these ideas, and whether other ideas need to be considered. Responses to questions become the focus of new questions, a process that continues until the group reaches clarity and consensus. The process is not unlike the preparation, review, response and revision of a scientific manuscript.
The goal of the Socratic method is to strip away illogical, inconsistent, irrelevant and unsupported claims and ideas, thereby revealing truth. People who hold illogical or empirically unsupported beliefs can find a Socratic discourse discomforting. Some view the Socratic approach as antagonistic and unwelcoming, particularly to students who are already uncomfortable within the academic community. When we asked students, “Why was Socrates annoying?” many said he was arrogant, certain that he knew the answers to the questions he asked and unwilling to accept alternatives. Some said Socratic questioning leads to competitive and potentially embarrassing situations — a form of jousting to establish who belongs in a class and who does not. [...]
Webb Space Telescope Images the 'Spider Silk' of the Tarantula Nebula
The latest wonder from the Webb Space Telescope is a new look at the Tarantula Nebula, a swirling mass of infantile and yet-to-be conceived stars. What looks like spider silk surrounds a hollowed-out center, where material has been blasted away by radiation, according to a NASA release. A nebula is a massive cloud of dust occupying the interstellar medium that could be the cradle of life for new stars, and the Tarantula Nebula gets its particular name for its resemblance to a tarantula’s burrow, covered in webbing.