Starship Enterprise

inside Sydney’s Castlereagh Street headquarters, I was struck by images of erupting volcanoes, Egyptian-looking Scientology symbols, and Star-Trek-style video pods. It feels like a blend of a holistic healing centre and the control-deck of the Starship Enterprise. Soon, I’m looking down at Scientology’s Oxford Capacity Analysis personality test: 200 often strangely worded questions, ask how I “feel RIGHT NOW” about a disparate range of issues. "Does an unexpected action cause your muscles to…

Imperial Star Destroyers to X-Wing fighters — are capable of faster-than-light travel, only the Millennium Falcon has the benefit of specialized care from Han Solo and his trusted copilot Chewbacca. Like Han Solo, business professionals are the starship pilots of their organizations. They continuously look for the best and fastest vehicle to propel their companies toward success. In this hyperfast and customer-obsessed digital era, business professionals need to have their own Millennium…

The first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC on September 8, 1966. It promised to follow the starship Enterprise, operated by the NASA-like organization Starfleet, around the universe for five years as it, according to the show’s opening, “explore[s] brave new worlds, seek[s] out new life and new civilizations, and boldly [goes] where no man has gone before.” (SOURCE) Although the “Original Series”, as it later came to be called, was doomed to cancellation after three seasons, five other series…

* I wrote this essay on the topic of leadership because this is one area I am focused on in my personal and professional growth. Management duties are changing as I move forward in my career, and leadership skills will be an integral part of my development. I also thought this was a fun topic, one I have thought about a lot in the past but never necessarily communicated and I am happy to turn my scattered thoughts over the years into a somewhat composed opinion on the wisdom of one of my…

1. What is the purpose of the “Last Lecture” college professors? The purpose of the “Last Lecture’ college professors was to offer reflections on their personal and professional journeys. 2. Even though she had always been his “cheerleader”, why did Professor Pausch’s wife not want him to deliver a “Last Lecture”? Professor Pausch’s wife, Jai, did not want him to deliver a “Last Lecture” simply because she felt that this project would be too time consuming. Jai wanted to spend as much…

“Beam Me Up, Scotty!” - Star Trek Technology in Healthcare Imagine being on the U.S.S. Starship Enterprise and a medical emergency occurs. How do you contact medical personnel in sick bay? Anyone who has watched the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” television series will tell you communication between crewmembers is a simple matter of using the communicator attached to your uniform. Forty years ago this technology was futuristic. In today’s hospitals, this technology is now a reality.…

If we want to see a prominent of example of positive representation in the media, we have to go back to the days of tube televisions and turn back the hands of time a half a century. “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Those were the lines first spoken by Captain James T. Kirk on early September night on…

"Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." In “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,” the Enterprise is taken over by Spock's deluded half-brother Sybok, who believes that the moment of enlightenment will come after crossing the so-called Great Barrier at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The ship is closely pursued…

James T. Kirk exclaims, as he narrowly escapes a macabre fate at the hands of the Klingon army. A beam of light is cast down onto the captain, instantaneously transporting him aboard the safety of his own starship. This technology, employing the use of teleportation, has saved many U.S.S. Enterprise crew members lives’ throughout countless episodes of the Sci-Fi TV series Star Trek. Teleportation being largely fictional at the time of production of the original Star Trek, is no longer fiction;…

CHAPTER THREE Klingon 1. Inception of Klingon Klingon is a language made up for popular science fiction television series called Star Trek. It tells the adventures of a spaceship Enterprise and characters on this vehicle. This language was designed for a particular alien race Klingons. During watching the show, we may encounter many alien races like The Romulans, the Ferengi or The Klingons. We can see that they speak in their own language when talking among themselves. It makes watching…