Star Trek.. Jumbled thoughts.

I think that, even 45 years after, Star Trek is incredibly relatable. I think the reason that it is so relatable to someone my age is that nothing is outdated. In fact, anything that isn't relatable is that way because we DON'T have it yet, not because it's a thing of the past. For example, the laser beams used to torture Vana. This is something that probably won't be seen, at least, not in our lifetime. Then, it's relatable again, with the use of the communicator that very closely resembles today's cell phones. It seems to me that it was Gene Roddenberry's imagination and others like it that influenced scientists to attempt to create similar technologies. Scientists are so very formulaic, it's easy to believe that once an idea has been planted that they'd be able to make it a reality. However, it's not so easy to believe that they would have imaginations so creative that they could also develop the idea for something such as a communicator, or ear piece, or giant command centers floating through space.