Beam me up, Scotty!

Ever since Gene Roddenberry’s TV series Star Trek debuted in 1966, it ignited scientists’ imagination like a supernova and soon became part of popular culture. But can we really travel at warp speed? Is the USS Enterprise transporter technology science...

Ever since Gene Roddenberry’s TV series Star Trek debuted in 1966, it ignited scientists’ imagination like a supernova and soon became part of popular culture.

But can we really travel at warp speed? Is the USS Enterprise transporter technology science fact or fiction?

A Star Trek event aims to provide an insight into the real-life science and technology of the series and how a generation of technologists who embraced the show in the 1960s, with its vast array of wondrous gadgets, had an active role in bringing those gadgets to reality from the 1990s onwards.

Speakers will boldly go where Star Trek has gone and beyond to find out how some gadgets used in the series can be created with modern-day technology.

There will also be a quiz, where participants can win prizes and tickets to the 3D screening of the Star Trek Into Darkness screening at the Eden Cinemas on May 15.

• The event, organised by Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture and the Eden Cinemas, is being held on Monday at Europe House, in St Paul Street, Valletta at 6.30pm. For bookings call on 9945 4066 or send an e-mail to euromediaforum@gmail.com. Entrance is free.

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