This post manages to talk about Star Trek in the least nerdy way possible. It is easy to laugh about William Shatner wearing a corset to play the part of Captain Kirk, but the bottom line is; it really was a great TV show.

If it was as naff as so many people make out then why did it have such a massive impact? Modern TV would be very much incomplete without Deep Space Nine, Voyager and The Next Generation.

You don’t have to be a geek to enjoy Star Trek.

The other thing to consider is the uncanny similarity between today’s mobile phones and the Star Trek communicators of the sixties show…