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  2. Replicator (Star Trek) - Wikipedia

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    One of the most important pieces of technology in the Star Trek universe, the replicator is used primarily to provide food and water on board starships, thus eliminating the need to stock most provisions (though starships, starbases, and other installations still stock some provisions for emergencies, such as in cases of replicator failure or an energy crisis.)

  3. Trekonomics - Wikipedia

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    The Star Trek universe is a utopia because people do not have to work, but yet the ones we see on the show are all paradoxically very busy. The motivations of people who chose to work are analyzed. The third chapter talks about the replicator, the machine that makes Star Trek 's post-scarcity possible. Post-scarcity's meaning is the infinite ...

  4. Small Victories - Wikipedia

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    Carter notices the Replicators' attraction to new technology and proposes to use the O'Neill, an incomplete Asgard ship originally designed to fight the Replicators, as a lure to draw the Replicators into hyperspace and destroy them in the O'Neill's self-destruct. Thor eventually accepts the plan, the Replicators take the bait and are destroyed.

  5. Star Trek - Wikipedia

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    The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...

  6. Transporter (Star Trek) - Wikipedia

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    A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe.Transporters allow for teleportation by converting a person or object into an energy pattern (a process called "dematerialization"), then sending ("beaming") it to a target location or else returning it to the transporter, where it is reconverted into matter ("rematerialization").

  7. Dilithium (Star Trek) - Wikipedia

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    The fictional properties of the material in the authors' guide Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (1991) explain it as uniquely suited to contain and regulate the annihilation reaction of matter and antimatter in a starship's warp core: In a high-frequency electromagnetic field, eddy currents are induced in the dilithium crystal structure, which keep charged particles away from ...

  8. List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes - Wikipedia

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    This is an episode list for the science-fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, which aired on UPN from January 1995 through May 2001. This is the fifth television program in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises a total of 168 (DVD and original broadcast) or 172 (syndicated) episodes over the show's seven seasons.

  9. How William Shatner Changed the World - Wikipedia

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    The first hour focuses on the original Star Trek series and the ideas that Gene Roddenberry had about the future of space travel.. It begins with the life of Dr. Marc D. Rayman, the chief propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and shows how Dr. Rayman became interested in propulsion through Star Trek.