The technology is almost all stuff we have today, only on an extremely refined level.\r\n\r\nStar Trek, however, is the sort of series that allows one to have great hope for the future of mankind; a little hope that we might unite as a race, and overcome the stupid problems that plague our world today, and turn our attention outward.\r\n\r\nJust my $0.02, of course. \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n