1. Travelling backwards in time is not possible because the past no longer exists in the expansion.
2. The transporter beam as a means of travel for humans is not feasible. Transporter beams are not possible because turning people into wave energy emissions would kill them in the same way that vapourising people would kill them. There could be no conceivable way of reconstructing a living human being from a vapourised or transported one. There could be no conceivable way of directing a vapourised person to a particular location prior to reconstructing him.
3. Tractor beams are not feasible nor are likely.
4. Force fields are not feasible nor are likely.
5. Well into the era postulated by Star Trek for interstellar travel, we have yet to meet our first alien civilisation or visit our first adjacent galaxy.
6. There are no drug addict characters on Star Trek. With drug addiction sweeping through humanity, and with major drug gangs manipulating democracies towards the legalisation of their poisons (on the model currently perpetrated in Portugal and being attempted in Ireland) the postulation of a near future without drug addiction seems improbable in the extreme.
7. In the present age pharmaceutical corporations have abjectly subverted and colonised the medical profession through endowments, sponsorship and other forms of semi concealed bribery, in order to propagate the lie that human mental pain is a biochemical imbalance best treated by the rocket fuel derivatives (seriously that's what they are) known as anti depressants. Why are no Star Trek characters taking anti depressants? They all seem to be living without belief in God and without that expression of community we call going to Church, so it's unlikely they'll have avoided the suppurating mental agonies of our time. Indeed it is unlikely that such a monolithic and monstrous debasment of medicine as has been orchestrated by the marketing departments of the pharmaceutical industry, could have been so roundly reversed by the time Captain Kirk came along.
8. There is no Muslim Jihad in Star Trek. How did that happen? When did it stop? How? Why?
9; There is no work place bullying in Star Trek. When did the epidemic cease to bedevil the human race?
10. The Star Trek space ships moving at light speed is a contradiction in terms. Nothing can move at light speed because light has no speed. It has no speed because it has no mass. Anything with mass, say a ruddy great Starship Enterprise, could not traverse space in the way light emanations do.
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Copy to Richard Dawkins and his friends at the BBC television station in Britain who from the 1960's were associated with the similarly unfeasible attempts to promote atheism with a pseudo science justification through a television show styled Doctor Who. At least the American shows were entertaining. Sigh. In other news Dawkins actually married Leela a character from Doctor Who.
