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Star Trek Lego Video

If you read NerdBeach much, then you may have picked up that we like Star Trek. In fact, we have even covered Star Trek in Lego. So what would be better than a Star Trek Lego video? The piece is an excellent example of fan fiction created by David Vann, aka gigerbrick. The work features the sound from the original Star Trek the original series (TOS) but the graphics are all created in Lego. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a little Star Trek Lego theater. But please, don’t mistake the Lego bricks for popcorn!

Play Well

The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (7 April 1891 – 11 March 1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934, his company came to be called “Lego”, from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means “play-well”.

source:wikipedia

Lego Star Trek – All Hands on the Bridge

Greg Chaffins

Captain’s Log, Stardate 1130.11. While on a routine mission to the Gamma Sector, we have discovered a virtual world made entirely of plastic blocks. Everything here is replicated in dazzling Lego detail, and we have even discovered a block version of the Enterprise itself, with full crew on the block Bridge. We are attempting to communicate…

Star Trek and Lego – seems like a natural connection to me. We have seen Star Trek Lego models on NerdBeach before, and I think they are pretty cool. So, to those who like either Star trek or Lego (or both), I thought it would be good to share our Star Trek model discoveries here on NerdBeach. Up for your perusal now, the original (TOS) enterprise bridge, as modeled by matt’s brick gallery (also picture source).

Bridge

The bridge was the starship equivalent of an operations center or command center. On Starfleet ships, it was generally located near the top and front of a vessel. From here, the commanding officers supervised all ship’s operations, ranging from vessel course control to tactical systems.

source:memory alpha

Lego Star Trek – Spock and Uhura

Greg Chaffins

At NerdBeach we have a strong affinity for all things Star trek, and who doesn’t love Lego? So, we thought it might be entertaining to start sharing our finds of Lego Star Trek models that we discover on the wacky worldwide web. To kick things off, let’s look at a model featuring our favorite Vulcan and alluring communications officer, Spock and Uhura.

image Ochre Jelly

Spock

Spock serves aboard the starship Enterprise, serving as science officer and first officer, and later as commanding officer of two iterations of the vessel. Spock’s mixed human-Vulcan heritage serves as an important plot element in many of the character’s appearances. Along with James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy, he is one of the three central characters in the original Star Trek series and its films. After retiring from Starfleet, Spock serves as a Federation ambassador, contributing toward the détente between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. In his later years, he serves as Federation ambassador to the Romulan Empire and becomes involved in the ill-fated attempt to save Romulus from a supernova

source:wikipedia

The Future According to Film (InfoGraphic)

Greg Chaffins

Science Fiction films often paint a glimpse of the future, and they are not always an optimistic viewpoint. In fact, sometimes the dystopian viewpoint is so prevalent among the different film wares that I have to wonder myself what is ahead. Thank goodness for the positive viewpoint of Star Trek.

But it is still fun to look at the future films lay out for us, and the infographic below brings those future glimpses together in a handy timeline. (I'm amazed at how well everything fits together.) Let's hope that a few get it right, and a few never happen…

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Dystopia

A dystopia (from Ancient Greek: δυσ-, "bad, ill", and Ancient Greek: τόπος, "place, landscape"; alternatively cacotopia, or anti-utopia) is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, various forms of active and passive coercion. Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity's spiritual evolution. Dystopian societies are often imagined as police states, with unlimited power over the citizens

source:wikipedia