Probably not the most original headline.
I am a Star Trek person – I can remember watching Captain Kirk, Spock McCoy and the rest of the crew on the TV when I was child. When the first movie came out – 1979 – I went to London with a girlfriend to see it (probably) in Leicester Square. Forty-one years later Diana took me to see the relaunched Star Trek movie as a Birthday present and another year bought me a Star Trek Encyclopaedia for a wedding anniversary gift. I have a complete set of “The Star Trek Fact Files”! And I listened to T’Pau.
Everyone at Octagon now knows what a tribble is.
You get the picture.
Fiction and Fact
In the first Star Trek movie (1979), there is a scene showing previous vessels called “Enterprise” and one of those was a NASA Space Shuttle. Later after the movie NASA named its first Space Shuttle Enterprise. Although it did not go into space – it did however visit Stansted Airport in 1983 and I went to see it.
The Day The Space Shuttle Came To London | Londonist
Now “Oh my”, William Shatner is really going into space on the Blue Origin spacecraft:
Captain Kirk: Bezos’ Blue Origin to send William Shatner into space – BBC News
I could now write about how Star Trek “predicted” all sorts of technology we take for granted today and then segway into something great we do at Octagon (have a look at 365R if you want an example of how we deliver the best IT support and cybersecurity to our clients) but I can’t…
Captain Kirk is going into space!
