The Science of Star Trek, Mark Brake
The Science of Star Trek, Mark Brake
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The Science of Star Trek
The Scientific Facts Behind the Voyages in Space and Time

Author: Mark Brake

Narrator: Jon Vertullo

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/09/2023

Synopsis

Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural landscape in so many ways since it first aired in 1966. The franchise has generated billions of dollars in revenue, leading to a wide range of spin-off games, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek is noted for its social science, too, with its progressive civil rights stances and its celebration of future diversity that began with The Original Series, one of television's first multiracial casts.

The Science of Star Trek explores one of the greatest science-fiction universes ever created and showcases the visionary tech that inspired and influenced the real-world science of today. The perfect Star Trek gift for fans of the franchise, this book addresses many unanswered, burning questions, including: What can Star Trek tell us about aliens in our Milky Way?; How has Star Trek influenced space culture?; What can Star Trek tell us about planet hunting?; What Star Trek machines came true?; And when will we boldly go?

Learn more about one of our favorite modern epics with The Science of Star Trek!

About Mark Brake

Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999 and launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Cinema. Mark also tours Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wars, and Science of Superheroes road shows.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lydia on March 30, 2022

To be good, The Science of Star Trek would need to get its Star Trek facts right and its science facts right. As a life-long, die-hard Trekkie that’s seen everything Star Trek (except Discovery, that one doesn’t really count) numerous times, I can attest that it got multiple Trek facts wrong. I’m pr......more

Goodreads review by Theediscerning on April 01, 2022

This is a book that likes the Venn diagram between scientist and keen science reader, and the fan of Star Trek and its science fiction. What it most certainly doesn't do is just go through the tech of the franchise – the condiment sets that became medical scanners, the warp drive, the alien biology......more

Goodreads review by Bee on May 22, 2022

This is not what I was expecting from the title. I thought this would be a look at Star Trek from our current level of understanding; instead it's a look at our current levels of knowledge, paired with vaguely related Star Trek anecdotes. Mark's knowledge, or at least his recounting, of Star Trek is......more

Goodreads review by Annette on April 10, 2022

The Science of Star Trek by Mark Brake does exactly as it claims on the cover and looks at how the real life science stacks up to the aliens , ships and other technology of one of the most successful science fiction series of all time. Fans of the series in all its iterations, from the original epis......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on January 22, 2025

I found this book to be deeply thought-provoking. I enjoyed revisiting some of the old Star Trek episodes while learning a thing or two about astronomy and physics. The author ends the book with a chilling warning about the direction our world is headed in. (Spoiler Alert) "The age of reason seems t......more

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