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William Shatner, who portrayed Star Trek's most iconic character, Captain James T. Kirk, is the official Celebrity Ambassador for the tour and will be making appearances at various times throughout the tour's multi-city run. "STAR TREK THE TOUR promises to be the largest, most interactive and entertaining Star Trek event ever presented to the public," Mr. Shatner said. "This will truly be an impressive experience for the whole family and I am happy to be associated with it."
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While Roddenberry remained nominally in charge of the series as executive producer, he essentially removed himself from the daily production of the show in its third season.[7] Star Trek was cancelled at the end of its third season. However, it became extremely popular and gathered a large cult following in TV syndication during the 1970s.
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The Economist, - Star Trek had the replicator—a device that could assemble any object, atom by atom. The Nutri-Matic vending machine concocted drinks molecule by molecule in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyâ€?, personalising them by analysing an individual's taste buds, metabolism and brainwaves (though then, it has to be admitted, turning out a beverage that tasted almost, but not quite entirely, unlike tea). Now, for those still stuck on Earth, Neil Gershenfeld, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Centre for Bits and Atoms, has built version 1.0 of the personal fabricator, and it is already being deployed around the world.
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A Star Trek fan has a 10% chance of ever kissing a girl, A 2% chance of ever getting a girlfriend and a .0000000000001% chance of ever getting laid. Unless of course they're over the rank of Commander.
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Other innovative Star Trek features involved solutions to basic production problems. The idea of the faster-than-light warp drive was not new to science fiction, but it allowed a narrative device that permitted the Enterprise to quickly traverse space. The matter transporter, where crew members "beamed" from place to place, solved the problem of moving characters quickly from the ship to a planet, a spacecraft landing sequence for each episode being prohibitively expensive. The famous flip-open communicator was introduced as a plot device to strand the characters in challenging situations by malfunctioning, being lost or stolen, or out of range; absent such a device, the characters could simply beam up at the first sign of trouble.[11] The flip-open communicator has been copied in many popular cell phone designs from the mid-1990s on.
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What string of movies can contend with the heavyweight success of Star Trek's movie might? Starting with Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, Kirk and Company leapt from the tube to the screen and continued for nine more films. Pretty good for what was originally supposed to be a five-year mission.
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