Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What delivery method would Captain Kirk choose?

by Doug Lyons, VP of Product Marketing & Strategy

Common lore is that the styling for today’s mobile phones – in particular the flip models – is directly attributable to the “Communicators” used on the original Star Trek TV show (see “How William Shatner changed the world”).

Perhaps we should ask Gene Roddenberry’s descendents how he envisioned people buying and exchanging tickets - and entering the event venue. Or maybe the Trekkies out there know from some obscure episode– did some dude in a red uniform (aren’t the guys in red the ones that always get killed?) stand outside the auto-sliding doors of the venue and scan attendees communicators with his Tri-corder?

All I do know is that Klingon sporting events almost surely had UK-Football style rules preventing away fans from sitting in home sections……

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