News Summary

• Star Trek was first broadcast on American television screens in 1966, before catching on worldwide and becoming a global media phenomenon.
• At the time of the original series, many of the futuristic gadgets and machinery the crew of the USS Enterprise had at their disposal would have seemed impossibly advanced.
• But in retrospect, looking back from the 2020s, some of it has proved remarkably prophetic and has ended up as a major part of our everyday life.
• It seems we’re still some way off the likes of flying cars, robot assistants, and teleportation, but as the world has progressed in recent decades, a number of once-unthinkable technologies have nonetheless proved reality.