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Science Alive! Episode 8: The Science behind Star Trek

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May 26, 2016
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Dave Schellenberg with Erin Gregory
Dave Schellenberg with Erin Gregory, Assistant Curator for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Would teleportation work in real life? How fast is ‘warp speed’? On this episode of Science Alive, Dave chats with Erin Gregory, Assistant Curator for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, all about the science behind Star Trek! On May 13th, 2016, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum launched an out of this world exhibition: Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience.

Transcript

00:18

here at Starfleet Academy there are lots

00:21

of career opportunities which one is

00:23

right for you find out in this edition

00:24

of science alive I'm with Aaron Gregory

00:28

she is an assistant curator here at the

00:29

canada aviation of space museum hello

00:31

Aaron hi Dave now what is Starfleet

00:33

looking for in a medical officer well

00:36

medical officers and Starfleet have kind

00:39

of unique challenges in fact that they

00:41

don't just have to treat humans they

00:43

have to treat many many different

00:45

species it's complicated it's very

00:47

complicated so they've got to keep all

00:49

that information and check they've got

00:50

to be able to recognize different

00:52

anatomies figure out what curious

00:55

ailments they might have right and treat

00:59

them accordingly okay so how much

01:01

training is there be a lot of training

01:04

involved for sure but I think a lot of

01:06

this stuff at least in in our

01:07

experiences is kind of on the fly

01:10

learning on the fly right just to become

01:13

a doctor I mean you get a fair amount of

01:15

training and then there's an awful lot

01:17

of in the field experience is that what

01:20

Starfleet looks for as well for sure I

01:21

think in order to be a chief medical

01:23

officer certainly you need to have a lot

01:25

of experience as a medical officer just

01:27

kind of getting in and you know maybe

01:29

you get your first assignment you always

01:30

work under a chief medical officer and

01:32

learn from their experience and

01:34

certainly a huge field here at Starfleet

01:36

is engineering definitely engineering is

01:39

very important there are specialized

01:41

positions within engineering yep for

01:43

sure you have engineers and they'll have

01:45

various specialties within that overall

01:48

team and then there's the chief engineer

01:50

who is responsible for all the other

01:53

engineers what are some of the

01:55

responsibilities of the engineering

01:57

division on the starship so the

01:59

responsibilities of the engineering

02:00

division are wide they are they vary

02:04

widely they have to maintain the warp

02:07

core that's super important to to keep

02:09

the ship running they also maintain

02:10

things like impulse engines the

02:12

Replicators the transporter is you know

02:16

section within the engineering division

02:17

and basically all the ship systems

02:20

life-support also very important to

02:22

board a starship and what are the

02:24

aptitudes that Starfleet is looking for

02:26

for that I mean creativity is really big

02:29

really can you sort of a computerized

02:31

sort of physics is physics kind of thing

02:33

definitely and they certainly have to

02:35

have really strong knowledge of science

02:37

and math and you know utilize those in

02:40

in pretty much their all their

02:42

day-to-day operations but there is an

02:44

element of creativity and taking those

02:47

principles and kind of turning them on

02:48

their head in times whenever it's

02:50

required figuring out creative solutions

02:52

to get more power from one area of the

02:54

ship to another and really thinking in a

02:57

broad way about how the entire ship

03:00

functions and being able to get it to do

03:02

what you needed to do another critical

03:04

command position on a starship is the

03:06

first officer what's the relationship

03:08

between the first officer and the

03:10

captain captain obviously hugely

03:12

important role in on a board a starship

03:15

so the captain has to essentially take

03:18

stock of everything that's going on so

03:20

all of ships operations they have a team

03:23

of advisors that are you know usually

03:25

the chief so the chief engineer chief

03:27

medical officer is first officer

03:28

certainly he you know takes advice and

03:31

reports on a daily basis from each of

03:34

those people and determines kind of you

03:37

know the priorities for Starfleet he you

03:39

know he gets gets direction from the

03:42

Admirals and all that at Starfleet

03:44

Command he's responsible for telling the

03:46

ship where it needs to go how fast it

03:47

needs to get there making complicated

03:50

negotiations with variety of species

03:52

kind of understanding their cultural

03:54

practices in order to make those

03:56

negotiations smoother and and just has

04:00

to have a kind of a wide knowledge base

04:04

in order to properly make effective and

04:07

quick decisions on everything that goes

04:10

on in the starship now in Starfleet do

04:12

you train for command or do you start in

04:15

another area and then move into command

04:17

further along in your career command is

04:19

a stream but you can certainly come to

04:22

command from a variety of different

04:24

specialties so for example Kathryn

04:27

Janeway who later becomes an admiral she

04:29

comes up through science so she was

04:31

actually a science officer and through

04:33

her experience over the course of her

04:34

career became the captain of the

04:37

starship right there are

04:39

are examples of chief medical officers

04:43

that become captains and command medical

04:46

ships so you can come at it from a

04:48

variety of different ways and but

04:51

certainly you know command is a stream

04:52

on its own lots of options here at

04:54

Starfleet Erin if somebody wants to try

04:56

though for themselves what do they do

04:57

now you just come down to the Canada

04:59

aviation and Space Museum the Starfleet

05:02

Academy the experience runs till

05:03

September fifth Thank You Erin Erin

05:05

Gregory an assistant curator here at the

05:07

canada aviation and space museum this

05:09

was science alive

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