Is Star Trek really real.

[Outpost4]

If Trek is real, then folks there are really messed up. They get over the deaths of people, even thousands of people, in a few minutes. Both the value of life and the value of starships is real cheap in the Trek universe.

I wouldn't want to live there.

 

[Crewman47]

It's a dramatization of actual events as reported to Paramount by the Guardian of Forever.

Not sure if it's in the current version but I remember going through the time line for Star Wars on The Force.Net and the last entry which I found quite intersting was dated around the 1970's and set on Earth and stating that a holocron (I think that's what there called) was found on a beach by the then young George Lucas that contained all the adventures and events that had happened in the Star Wars Galaxy all those thousands of years ago enabling Lucas to use the info on the Holocron and tell the world of these stories through his films and novels. I thought it was brilliant because it implies that Star Wars is/was real and did actually exist in our own universe. So if SW can exist then so can Trek.

 

[Biggshow]

Is it possible that alternate universes have the same laws of physics as our own?

I mean, let's face it people, we barely know anything about how our universe functions and we still haven't left this rock to colonize other worlds.
What makes you so sure that the technology in Trek (regardless of how wild) as depicted on screen is 'fundamentally impossible' to be achieved in our reality?

There are theories behind possibility of Warp drive and even transporters.
I would say that given enough time, it would be possible to achieve both goals in this reality.
It's also possible we will give up on that and focus on something else.

These technologies may be possible but not without overcoming HUGE theoretical and technological difficulties. If you haven't already, I would recommend reading Lawrence Krauss' "The Physics of Star Trek".

 

[Nebusj]

Is it possible that alternate universes have the same laws of physics as our own?

Difficult to say. It depends on other things whether it's possible for the laws of physics to be anything other than what they are in our universe.

 

[Psion]

And you can get around the question of physics with Virtual Reality Theory which suggests that our universe is most likely a simulation running on a fantastically advanced computer of some kind. In fact, if you do a Parallel Universes mashup with Virtual Reality Theory, then I'd suggest that there is definitely a Star Trek universe ... nearly an infinite number of them with subtle differences between them. Places where Engineering is in the Primary Hull of 1701, and others where it's in the Secondary Hull. Places where Janice Lester pulled it off. Places where Riker accepted promotion and moved on. Places where Spock died in the kahs-won. Even places where the bridge is pointing straight forward and the turbolift is off-center.

Mind you, this also suggests that there's a Lost in Space universe, too. With vegetable people who fuss over Dr. Smith's beauty.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

If we go by the DC comics multiverse theory with our world being Earth Prime, then sure Trek can exist in one of those billions of universes. Why not? But the question then becomes are we real in another universe. Are we real now? Were we ever?

 

[Seraphim]

Ask Quinn Mallory.

Or Jet Li.

 

[Sector 7]

actually it is completely real. there is evidence of James T. Kirk's visits to earth in the 20th century. Don't believe me, watch this informative youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9Appw6afc

It's too bad this video has NOTHING to do with James T. Kirk. It's a Picard video.