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Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (7/10) Movie CLIP - The Miracle Worker (1986) HD

Movieclips · 2.6M views · 2011-10-27 · 2:36

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A clip from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where Scotty introduces an astonished engineer to future technology to build the whale tanks.

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Used as a joke or pop-culture reference in comments about futuristic technology and talking to computers.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2015–2025

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1970-01-01 · 2025-05 · Joke / meme

Exactly my first thought as well. [VIDEO] We're living in the 80s version of the future. We have Star Trek today.

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enraged_camel · 2023-08 · Reference

>> If we have the ability to computationally determine these things without any experimental data needed, and we know we're looking for a specific band structure, wouldn't we just do an automated search of possible chemistries to find everything producing said band structure? Isn't this a plot point in that one Star Trek movie (episode?) where they go back in time and program a current-day computer to do this? edit: OK, I misremembered. Was thinking of this: [VIDEO]

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furgooswft13 · 2019-12 · Joke / meme

[VIDEO] Using mostly his index fingers. Suck it vim users, your editor has nothing on MOLECULAR DESIGN for System 3.0

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