In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to find a humpback whale and transport this back to the 24 th Century. In the absence of the 23 rd Century ...

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, crew members of the USS Enterprise — Mr. Scott and Dr. McCoy — trade the formula for transparent aluminum, a material with glass-like transparency while ...

"Star Trek" is celebrating its 50th birthday this week and, as has become customary for Star Trek milestones, a certain amount of attention once again falls to the myriad real-life technologies ...

In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty and Bones provided a 20th century engineer the formula for transparent aluminum. It was in exchange for materials to build a whale tank.

With no “transparent aluminum” to be found in Ronald Reagan’s America, Scotty and Bones have to seek out the clunkier 20th-century equivalent: big slabs of plexiglass. There's no such thing ...

'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary ...

Transparent aluminium is one technological advancement that is quintessentially Trek, wholly due to it being a substantial plot device in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’s ... When all is said and done, the shaky historical ground that the whole invention of transparent aluminum rests upon is the only potential quandary in Star Trek ...

M any fans of the original series movies count Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as their favorite among the 6 movies that ...

Affordable Star Trek-like transparent aluminum could protect phones, windows, and lenses. Researchers have improved transparent aluminum manufacturing to where it could be used for larger design.

NRL is pressing spinel powder into transparent domes, sheets and other shapes. In the 1986 movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” the Enterprise crew travels back from the 24 th century to ...