Star Trek: The Next Generation

Our Place in the Stars: An Argument for the Continuance of Space Exploration The idea of space travel has fired the imaginations of people for hundreds of years. From the publication of Jules Verne’s book, From the Earth to the Moon, in 1865 to the recent release of the movie, The Martian, space travel has held a special place in the hearts of human beings. However, unlike so many other fictional sciences, modern humans actually have the capability to travel through space! Unfortunately, some…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

bronchitis and the flu. George was an avid writer, writing his first poem at only the age of four. When he wrote the book, he was envisioning an extremely oppressive future where your whole life is controlled by the government. There are shows like Star Trek where it envisions the future as something where everyone is capable of getting along with one another no matter what they are. The disparities of these two predictions are gargantuan. The book 1984 was George Orwell’s prophecy of what the…

point at which artificial intelligence outstrips human capacity; only it’s not quite the story as James Cameron portrayed it in his groundbreaking movie *The Terminator*. Rather, it would seem the singularity is closer to The Borg from the Star Trek Next Generation series. The singularity’s slow march forward comes not in a rise of the machines, but in a world of surgically implanted LED lights to backlight tattoos, sub-dermal RFID chips and DIY wetware; all installed, not by licensed medical…

Christian plotlines. He is actually mainly a horror film creator, and is quite respected in the Hollywood community. In fact, he is directing the new multi-million-dollar budget Marvel movie, Doctor Strange starring film star Benedict Cumberbatch. When it comes to movies of this generation, Marvel movies are about as big as it gets. With their films constantly dominating the box office. In an interview with Michael Horton on the White Horse Inn podcast, Derrickson talks about how the expectation…

No, I wasn't bullied into isolation, but there was a time when all my nerdy interest embarrassed me. Looking back now, I count myself lucky. I have grown up in a generation where more people than usual enjoy nerd culture. So even though I enjoyed nerdy things it has not caused any big problems. The main problem I had was finding people who shared my same interest and I could act myself around. It all changed around…

SUMMARY Sets in the futuristic period, Guy Montag, a fireman, who, paradoxically, burns houses and illegally owned books. One night, after having burning quite number of homes and books, Montag met Clarisse, who happens to be his old neighbor. Clarisse, a seventeen year old, who is like a typical teenager, who likes to talk but what Clarisse sets from other teens is that she question about the world and nature In the course of the chapter one: part one, Clarisse asked Montag if he is happy, and…

In fiction, the digital world is portrayed through imagery and character. These are methods of communication that translate easily to audiences. In reality, however, discussions of the digital are described through metaphor and thought experiments. We seek to either concretize the digital through examining historical developments in technology or abstract the digital in philosophical debate. A third option, as proposed by Daniel Downes in Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace, is to…

on this moon of Jupiter. The next stop for Voyager 1 was Saturn in 1980. The probe was targeted to keep farther away from Saturn’s rings the Voyager 2 but was set to get about 4,000 miles away from the moon Titan. Titan was found to have an atmosphere much like Earth’s early atmosphere. The probe did not get to see the surface of Titan as the atmosphere was too thick to penetrate. In the Winter of 1980 Voyager 1 had finished its primary mission and began its trek to interstellar space. It…

Unit Title: Introduction to Medical Tourism Structure: Medical Tourism or Health Tourism refers to the travel of people to another country for receiving medical treatment in that country. In the past, people from developing countries travelled to developed countries for treatments that were either not available or were not of the required standards in their own countries. Although this pattern still continues, the trend in recent years is for people from the developed countries to travel to the…