{"id":2959,"date":"2013-05-21T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T23:15:10","slug":"star-trek-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/star-trek-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek and science"},"content":{"rendered":"

I liked watching \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d when I was a teenager.\u00a0 I liked the character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who was a scientist, diplomat, and Shakespeare-lover all rolled into one.<\/p>\n

The film, \u201cStar Trek into Darkness,\u201d started playing in cinemas this past weekend.\u00a0 As a homage to the movie, Phil Plait provides an amusing look at the science errors in the Star Trek franchise in his blog post, \u201cThe Top 6 Star Trek Science Mistakes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked watching \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d when I was a teenager.\u00a0 I liked the character of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who was a scientist, diplomat, and Shakespeare-lover all rolled into one. The film, \u201cStar Trek into Darkness,\u201d started playing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,77],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-science-fiction","tag-science-in-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}