Star Trek Publishing

Enterprise to Computer: Star Trek chatbot

Human interactions and human-computer interactions are strongly influenced by style as well as content. Adding a persona to a chatbot makes it more human-like and contributes to a better and more engaging user experience. In this work, we propose a design for a chatbot that captures the style of Star Trek by incorporating references from the show along with peculiar tones of the fictional chara...

After the asthmas: Star Wars and Star Trek.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (1958, Derby, UK in fact), Harry Morrow-Brown used his microscope from his medical school days to show that only those adults with airway disease and sputum eosinophilia responded to oral prednisolone [1], thus preventing this most powerful of medications being consigned to the asthma dustbin of history. Subsequent work led to steroid therapy moving fro...

Medical ethics through the Star Trek lens.

Sexism in Space: The Freudian Formula in "Star Trek"

Star Trek and the future of family medicine.