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Originally posted by Donkeypuncher
Just barely.
Old guy died - designed something cool 35 years ago. Sorry he died...but "We will continue to update this story with more information as it becomes available"???!! What more information becomes available when an average-Joe senior citizen dies of cancer? It's not like a head of state was assassinated or something... jeebus
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Well, I care.
Being a bit of a Trekie and all.
And if you know anything about Nasa in its glory days you would know that Star Trek had a profound influence on the builders of the space programme in the united states.
To me, the most noble thing that the american gov't has ever done is the space programme.
From an entertainment point of view, every movie that ever featured a space ship before star trek always had some sort of smoking rocket out the back of it.
NCC1701 was the first space ship in the movies that didn't have some sort of smoking rocket. Virtually every space movie since has copied that ideal.
The man influenced alot of guys at Nasa in the real world and influenced hundreds of movies since star trek.
I'd say that's a worthy accomplishment.
Right up there with Chuck Jones in my eyes.