Material shown with courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum

Interviewer: "... For the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise seeing memorabilia from
the program at the Smithsonian Institution was more than they expected... some of the imagined equipment of the science fiction writers has become fact."

I do believe that young potential scientists or even working scientists look at science fiction and say "That's not impossible that we can do a, b and c. We could accomplish that. We could move an object from place to place. We could achieve that speed of flight ....

Interviewer: "It was Star Trek where the world saw it's first communicator.  ... the show tried to imagine how earthlings would interact with beings from other planets ... Often the show focused on parallel-problems with the 60ies. .. The Prime Directive of Non-interaction was written as a reaction of the Vietnam War.  ...  The Smithsonian museum is hoping to keep science and values to future generations."