[karajorma]

Well there was the question of why they made so ****ing much of it.

[Mongoose]

I don't even know if it was the red matter itself that was responsible (it's been a few years since I've sat through the movie), but I distinctly remember part of the whole backstory being old Spock talking about "a supernova that could destroy the galaxy" and owwwww my brain.

Beastie Boys is a fantastic inclusion in Star Trek and I will broker no argument on this subject.  Peaceful and post-scarcity doesn't mean boring.

Okay, admittedly I should have left them out of it, because little **** Kirk barreling through Iowa in a vintage Corvette blasting Sabotage kicked ass.

[Phantom Hoover]

Well there was the question of why they made so ****ing much of it.

My fellow Vulcans, we cannot allow the Red Matter Gap to widen.

[Luis Dias]

I am worried about all the other colors though. What will blue matter even do?

[Mongoose]

Blue Matter Matters?

[karajorma]

Red matter was the stuff that would suck up planets and stars and put out the supernova. It took only a drop of the stuff to destroy a planet. So of course the Vulcans went the entirely logical route of making gallons of the stuff.

[Mongoose]

To be fair, if your first attempt fails, you'd sure as hell want to have enough material for a second, or a third, and so on.  The Manhattan Project didn't limit its amount of usable nuclear material to a few bombs' worth by choice, but because that's literally all they had at the time, even with the gargantuan facilities at Oak Ridge and Hanford.

[NGTM-1R]

Rule 1 of pretty much any physics/chemistry experiment: you can never have enough starting material.

[Bryan See]

Are there any more technologies on Star Trek becoming reality? I see warp drive, tricorders, replicators, hypospray, etc. to name a few.

[MP-Ryan]

Are there any more technologies on Star Trek becoming reality? I see warp drive, tricorders, replicators, hypospray, etc. to name a few.

This should be entertaining.  Setting aside the fact that tricorder-style instruments and hyposprays are pretty fancy names for pretty basic technology, I wouldn't even begin to call 3D fabrication akin to replicator technology, nor warp drive even a remote possibility at this point.

[Luis Dias]

Flat screens. When I saw that on TNG I thought these guys were smoking really high pot, how the hell would all the electron beams deflect within that tiny thickness?

Of course, I was like 10-12 when I made that thought, and didn't even dream LCDs would be able to do what they do now.

... I wouldn't even begin to call 3D fabrication akin to replicator technology, ...

That is the very endgame of 3d printing though. Perhaps in a century?

[MP-Ryan]

That is the very endgame of 3d printing though. Perhaps in a century?

Who knows.  I wouldn't even begin to try predicting the pace of tech development in that kind of timespan.

[Luis Dias]

What's wrong with doing that? I mean, it's not as if someone in 2116 will check back on you telling the many ways you went wrong

[Scotty]

You might as well try to predict who will be president of the US in 30 years, you'll be about as accurate.

[Luis Dias]

That's easy to answer: Kim Kardashian.

[NGTM-1R]

That's easy to answer: Kim Kardashian.

Only if President Yeezy manages to release a good album while in office.

[Mikes]

Are there any more technologies on Star Trek becoming reality? I see warp drive, tricorders, replicators, hypospray, etc. to name a few.

This should be entertaining.  Setting aside the fact that tricorder-style instruments and hyposprays are pretty fancy names for pretty basic technology, I wouldn't even begin to call 3D fabrication akin to replicator technology, nor warp drive even a remote possibility at this point.

Back in the day ... we thought those snazzy communicators they had looked really cool, but we'd never get those in reality right? Could never make a phone that small ... and without cables too!

Also Tablets ... saw them on Next Generation first! (I believe that was even a point made in one of the Apple/Samsung lawsuits about the ipad. ;-))

You might as well try to predict who will be president of the US in 30 years, you'll be about as accurate.

Well of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA

:-)

[jr2]

@ 2m 7s:

[Bryan See]

You may check out this thread on Gary Johnson calling for humanity to settle on other planets. This is like in Star Trek, you know.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

No it's not.