How Star Trek Culturally Prototyped the 21st Century
If you look at the 1956 film Forbidden Planet the crew of the C-57D starship would seem at home in an Elizabethan naval vessel from the 1600s. Yet just ten years later in 1966 the crew of the Enterprise seems like they would fit right into the multicultural global village of 2009: Credit for this goes to bold visionaries like Gene Roddenberry.
