The Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, couldn’t do things also in support of the plot. We know [SirGalaxy] was ...

Until then, [Peter Jansen] has dedicated a few years of his life to making the Tricorder of the Star Trek universe a reality. It’s his entry for The Hackaday Prize, and made it to the finals ...

In the TV show, a tricorder is a handheld device ... published on mentalfloss.com as 12 Star Trek Gadgets That Now Exist.

Fifty years after the show aired, Star Trek's fictional tricorder is far from becoming a reality. But a $10 million prize from the XPRIZE Foundation is hoping to motivate inventors to create one ...

Jeri Ryan says “never say never” when it comes to a Star Trek return.

Star Trek producer explains how Picard spin-off will be 'extremely different' Watch Patrick Stewart shock Star Trek fans with surprise reveal of new series Patrick Stewart to star in new Star Trek ...

During the Battle of Wolf 359, when Starfleet Commanding Officer Benjamin Lafayette Sisko (played by Avery Brooks) lost his wife Jennifer (played by Felecia M.

Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: PICARD Credit: Matt Kennedy / CBS Picard has a message for the Star Trek series as most of us know it: "OK ...