{"id":3268452,"date":"2025-02-11T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=3268452"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:51:46","slug":"physicist-star-trek-3268452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/physicist-star-trek-3268452\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a physicist hates this 1 Star Trek scene"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two crucial errors in the climactic sequence from 1994’s Star Trek: Generations<\/em> have been bugging Jeremy Tinker for 30 years.<\/p>\n Tinker<\/a>, an associate professor of physics at NYU, loves Star Trek, but there are a few things about the climactic sequence of the 1994 film Star Trek: Generations<\/em> that send him straight into lecture mode about what it doesn’t quite get right.<\/p>\n First, there’s the matter of a rocket\u2014launched by a bad guy in a tussle with Captain Picard\u2014traveling far faster than the speed of light.<\/p>\n But what happens next is even more interesting for what it reveals about what would\u2014and wouldn’t\u2014happen if you could somehow suddenly stop energy production at the center of a star<\/a>:<\/p>\n