“...,” the supremely influential science-fiction television series...”
You are kidding me.
It’s entertainment. It’s really bad entertainment most of the time.
yeah, but then again, if it had really been so influential, when it showed handdeld communicators, earily similar to cell phones, why didn’t it show gangstas and teens texting so fast their thumbs are about to fly off?
And when we saw Phasors, why didn’t we hear pleas of, “Don’t Phaze me , Bro!”....?
IMHO, too many cultural icons of the 70s were embedded in the scripts for it to have been ageless, but the series was good and a good iconoclast of that period.
The cell phone, including the Motorola flip-phones and voice dialing, were created by real world scientists and engineers inspired by what they’d seen on Star Trek. Similarly, people were inspired to be doctors from watching Dr. McCoy. Yes, you can say the same thing about other television shows, too, which is why they’re often not just entertainment. But Star Trek specifically inspired a lot of people in the science, computers, and medicine to make technological things that they saw in that show happen in the real world and there are people who say that Star Trek specifically inspired them to enter a career in science, engineering, or medicine.