Editing Technology in Star Trek (section)

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The fictional '''technology in ''[[Star Trek]]''''' has borrowed many ideas from the scientific world. Episodes often contain technologies named after or inspired by real-world scientific concepts, such as [[tachyon]] beams, [[baryon]] sweeps, [[quantum]] [[Slipstream (science fiction)|slipstream]] drives, and [[photon]] [[Weapons in Star Trek|torpedoes]]. Some of the technologies created for the ''Star Trek'' universe were done so out of financial necessity. For instance, the [[transporter (Star Trek)|transporter]] was created because the limited budget of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' (''TOS'') in the 1960s did not allow expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets.<ref>Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block, Terry J. Erdmann</ref>{{page needed|date=January 2018}}

''[[Discovery Channel]] Magazine'' stated that [[cloaking device]]s, [[faster-than-light]] travel, and [[transporter (Star Trek)|dematerialized transport]] were only dreams at the time ''TOS'' was made, but physicist [[Michio Kaku]] believes all these things are possible.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Gary|last=Sledge|title=Going Where No One Has Gone Before|journal=Discovery Channel Magazine|issue=3|issn=1793-5725|date=August 2008}}</ref> [[William Shatner]], who portrayed [[James T. Kirk]] in ''TOS'', believes this as well, and went on to co-write the book ''I'm Working on That'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shatner |first=William |title=Star trek. I'm working on that a trek from science fiction to science fact |date=2004 |publisher=Pocket Books |others=Chip Walter |isbn=978-0-7434-5373-8 |location=New York |oclc=1152139041}}</ref> in which he investigates how ''Star Trek'' technology is becoming feasible.