please god no more Star Trek references (Score 0)

the reason we "laugh" at Star Trek is because it does such a dippy, ignorant, bad job of recycling the world's sf ideas, dressed up in a sappy soap opera shell and performed by the worst actors the galaxy could muster. The idea of a teleporter was not originated on the damned program. Not that this is a teleporter anyway, at best it might someday offer some sort of "simultaneous" communications - like the Ansible from Le Guinn's The Dispossed.

Every time a remotely sf idea get mentioned on it some bloody fool comes along and blabs about the uncanny similarity to Star Trek..

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! YOU ARE BORING EVERYBODY!