Things you see in real life that make you think of Trek

[retroenzo]

What have you seen out and about that makes you think of Star Trek?

I'll start with a long journey I had to make last week and drove past some construction work on a road we were driving on. We passed quite a few construction vehicles (diggers, etc) and they all bore the name 'M O'Brien Plant Hire'.

I thought it was a somewhat appropriate name for a construction vehicle company.

 

[Mojochi]

At the hospital I work, we use communicators called Vocera. It really only has 1 button on the front. You can wear them around your neck on a lanyard, but I prefer to put mine in my breast pocket. I am literally tapping at my chest all day long like I'm effing Will Riker

 

[retroenzo]

At the hospital I work, we use communicators called Vocera. It really only has 1 button on the front. You can wear them around your neck on a lanyard, but I prefer to put mine in my breast pocket. I am literally tapping at my chest all day long like I'm effing Will Riker

You don't need to get one of these new Bluetooth communicators then.

 

[Mojochi]

You don't need to get one of these new Bluetooth communicators then.

Does it involve an ear bud or headset of some kind? No. Screw that. I'd hate that all day long

 

[retroenzo]

Does it involve an ear bud or headset of some kind? No. Screw that. I'd hate that all day long

Nope
http://www.startrek.com/article/tng-bluetooth-communicator-badge-available-now

 

[Cyke101]

A few years ago at work, my boss was trying to figure out how to attach sound to a PowerPoint slideshow. She emailed me the file in order to test it out, then came to my office.

I normally use headphones at the desk and it never occurred to me to unplug them. Rather, when I opened up the file, I put in only one earbud so that I could listen to the file while listening to her simultaneously. With two fingers pressed against the earbud, I hit play on my keyboard, listened for the sound, and reported back that I was, indeed, receiving sound.

She laughed and said I reminded her of Uhura. That memory now sticks as a moment of pride, a-thank you.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Sometimes when I'm birding, I kind of wish I had a TOS uniform I could wear. It would be funny to hide in the trees and come out onto the trail when people go by.

I passed a manhole today labelled "McCoy Construction".

Just saw an ad on this forum for Ryerson University's Chang School of Continuing Education.

That could confuse anybody who's in in-universe mode.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/a/ae/Chang_(General).jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100605232156&path-prefix=en

Or, if you're an obscure TNG characters fan:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/1/19/Chang,_tac_officer.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120730022305&path-prefix=en

Yesterday, while at the grocery store, I saw an Enterprise rental company truck pass by in the opposite direction of a transport truck whose company had the word "Nexus" in it.

 

[TonyLeung82]

Every time I see or work with an I-Pad, I think of Star Trek. Obvious they are the PADDS
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/PADD

 

[alensatemybuick1]

I own a 1965 Oldsmobile; the speedometer reminds me of the doomsday machine.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/1966-OLDSMOBI...-SPEEDOMETER-HOUSING-/331971392277?nav=SEARCH

 

[retroenzo]

I own a 1965 Oldsmobile; the speedometer reminds me of the doomsday machine.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/1966-OLDSMOBI...-SPEEDOMETER-HOUSING-/331971392277?nav=SEARCH

And this is why my speedo reminds me of Deep Space Nine...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9AsbqVP0CBY/maxresdefault.jpg

 

[Tracy Trek]

The flip phones. The blue tooth ear pieces.

 

[Mojochi]

I own a Kawasaki Vulcan. lol

 

[Tracy Trek]

My mom used to have a Plymouth Voyager.

 

[locutus101]

Cell phones, remote controls of all kinds are very Startrekky! Back in the days when Kirk or someone else used these it must have seemed fantastic.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I remember when I was a kid; I guess it was the 100th anniversary of the invention of the telephone (or maybe it was the bicentennial of the US), we got this special edition of the phone book. This was before all the companies broke away from Ma Bell. It had pictures on the front of how the look of phones developed over the decades. And it also had a picture of what someone thought a video phone of the future would be like.

I remember thinking at the time, how that seemed like an impossible sci-fi concept. But really, it's kind of what we have now. Just in my own lifetime, I've seen/experienced rotary dialed phones with a party line when I was a kid to what is available now.

 

[Six of Twelve]

I remember when I was a kid; I guess it was the 100th anniversary of the invention of the telephone (or maybe it was the bicentennial of the US), we got this special edition of the phone book. This was before all the companies broke away from Ma Bell. It had pictures on the front of how the look of phones developed over the decades. And it also had a picture of what someone thought a video phone of the future would be like.

I remember thinking at the time, how that seemed like an impossible sci-fi concept. But really, it's kind of what we have now. Just in my own lifetime, I've seen/experienced rotary dialed phones with a party line when I was a kid to what is available now.

Actually, the video phone was invented in the early 60s. I saw one demonstrated at the World's Fair in 1964. They didn't catch on at the time, mostly because monthly service was very expensive, at about a hundred and twenty five bucks a month, which was hideously expensive for the time. And, of course, so few people got them that they weren't able to be used for their intended purpose, as people on both ends of the line had to have one to be able to use the video feature. After a few years, because so few people got these phones, service for them was discontinued. It was an invention ahead of its time.

 

[Tracy Trek]

@Six of Twelve Thanks, I did not know that about video phones.

 

[locutus101]

Actually, the video phone was invented in the early 60s. I saw one demonstrated at the World's Fair in 1964. They didn't catch on at the time, mostly because monthly service was very expensive, at about a hundred and twenty five bucks a month, which was hideously expensive for the time. And, of course, so few people got them that they weren't able to be used for their intended purpose, as people on both ends of the line had to have one to be able to use the video feature. After a few years, because so few people got these phones, service for them was discontinued. It was an invention ahead of its time.

I remember an old sci. fi. tvmovie from the sixties or maybe the early seventies where they wore wristwatches that could be used as small TVs and video phones. That seemed so futuristic back then. Now with the smartphones we're almost at that point.

 

[Six of Twelve]

I remember an old sci. fi. tvmovie from the sixties or maybe the early seventies where they wore wristwatches that could be used as small TVs and video phones. That seemed so futuristic back then. Now with the smartphones we're almost at that point.

And I think even this idea was borrowed from Dick Tracy, which is from the 1930s or 40s.

 

[Nyotarules]

The internet as shown in ST-DS9 Sanctuary' episodes