SCIENTIST TO STARS.Name: Andre Bormanis Hot Job: Science adviser to Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. movies and TV series
Where: Hollywood, California Were you a Trekkie as a kid? Absolutely. I was 6 or 7 when the original show started, and I was mesmerized. It definitely influenced my decision to study science. How did you get such a cool job? I received a bachelor's degree in physics. Eventually I worked at NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , helping decide what space projects NASA should work on. But I really wanted to be a science writer. So, I wrote a script for Star Trek. They didn't use it, but instead they told me they needed a science adviser who understood the show. So what kind of science advice do you give Star Trek makers? I make sure anything science-related on Star Trek is accurate. For example, the show's writers will ask me how large a comet would be, how fast it travels, what it's made of--things like that. I also help the writers create interesting futuristic fu·tur·is·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to the future. 2. a. Of, characterized by, or expressing a vision of the future: futuristic decor. b. lingo Lingo - An animation scripting language. [MacroMind Director V3.0 Interactivity Manual, MacroMind 1991]. to describe the inventions and technologies on the show. Is it hard to come up with new and high-tech words? Sometimes! Once we had to name a space station, but we didn't want a word that sounded too much like anything that already exists. So I came up with "terrasphere." We want cooler-sounding words to give viewers a sense of the future. Do engineers today nab ideas for their inventions from Star Trek? A lot of modern designs were definitely inspired by the show. For example, Captain Kirk used a "cell phone" that flipped Flipped (2002) is a young adult novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. It is a stand-alone teen romance in a he-said she-said style with the two protagonists alternately presenting their perspective on a shared set of events. open on the original show hack The show hack is a type of show horse, exhibited to a standard first established in England. Affiliated showing and breeding of the show hacks in the United Kingdom is overseen by the British Show Horse Association. in the 1960s. And the little computer data disks the Enterprise crew used then look exactly like the 3.5-inch floppy disks we use today! What other Star Trek creations might be possible? |
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