It�s not just the science community who�ve embraced Star Trek

I went inside the mountain at NORAD, one of the most top secret defence locations in the Strategic Air Command in Colorado. And they were, at that time in the process of re-designing their situation room to look and feel more like the bridge of the Enterprise.

It�s amazing just how the seams start to blend at some point. That's part of the power of Star Trek, it does cause us to sort of look inward and draw out of ourselves what�s possible.

Those brainiacs at NASA and then the military industrial complex, these are people that have spent an awful lot of time in their lives dreaming too, you know. It�s just interesting that that link is so strong and that it got stronger, the longer the series was on the air. The more and more Star Trek became sort of entrenched in the culture the more these people really embraced it.