TREK tech in limelight

By: Mike Whybark
Date: Friday, December 13, 2002
Source: MSNBC

MSNBC runs a feature on the role of technology in STAR TREK, one of a slew of stories running just ahead of today's national opening of STAR TREK: NEMESIS, the 10th feature in the long-lived franchise.

Shinzon, the film's bad guy, is a clone of Captain Picard, and the article's focus is how STAR TREK uses technological themes that parallel contemporary concerns.

The article also reveals that ENTERPRISE's T'Pol will contract an HIV-like syndrome via a mind-meld in an episode set to air in February. Story editor Andre Boormanis says, "It is something that can carry a very serious social stigma on Vulcan ... and T'Pol faces discrimination because she has to reveal that she's experienced a mind meld."

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