Tech on Trek  I can't say I'm as big a Star Trek fan as some. I
love the stories and characters, but I'm not into the minutiae.
I don't know which deck sickbay is on, couldn't tell you the
date the first Enterprise was launched (actually it was Stardate
1814, if you can believe Wikipedia), and don't know a word of
Klingon.  I'm also far different than most fans in that my
favorite Star Trek series is Voyager (the only Trek to really
put its crew totally on their own), and I actually, sort of,
enjoyed Enterprise (which, incidentally, looks so good on its
HDNet HD widescreen reruns that even the nay-sayers might enjoy
it). I also feel that the best Trek film after First Contact was
Galaxy Quest. What, you didn't think that was a Trek film? Oh ye
of little imagination. In any event, such radical opinions would
get me tossed out of any self-respecting Trek convention, unless
I went disguised as a Tribble.  But my topic here is not a
general discussion of Trek and other sci-fi movies and
television. Rather, it's t