David Grinspoon

I'm sure vibranium is on there.

Vibranium is definitely there.

there's obviously a range and Star Trek, I mean, in a lot of ways, Star Trek holds up really well.

It was very sophisticated, high quality entertainment for some of the reasons, you know, Chuck just mentioned.

And, and it's amazing how much it's still referred to even, you know, amongst professional astrobiologists, we like get into conversations.

Well, could you have something like a class M planet, you know, and, and, but, you know, then obviously they're devices, which are just devices, which have no correlation to any science.

Right.

You know, we're still in the infancy of our understanding of planets.

And, you know, they're from the 23rd century, so it makes sense they would know more.

But, you know, I mean, at the time of Star Trek, of course, we hadn't even discovered any exoplanets.

And so we had no real diversity to work with.

Now we at least are starting to understand planets.

So we're starting to understand the diversity of planets, but we're still pretty naive.

But, you know, as far as aliens, the problem with Star Trek aliens is they're, you know, generally humans with prostheses.

Right.

And that makes sense for the economics of producing a TV show, but they don't,

generally look like what we would picture aliens to look like.

Of course, we have no idea what aliens look like, but we imagine probably they don't look just like humans because of the randomness of evolution.

Yeah.

No, a lot of that is in there.