5 Ways Star Trek: TNG Would Be Different if They Made It Now

Phasers. Teleportation. Clothing that never needs to be ironed (or even washed?). These are the amazing technologies of the Enterprise-D as seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Recently the early seasons of show, made in the late 1980s, have come out in glorious Blu-ray. And seeing TNG in modern picture quality got us to wondering: How would the beloved series be different if it were actually made today?

For clarity's sake, we're not talking about recent advances in theoretical physics that would change the way a sci-fi series would imagine warp drive or time travel. Rather, we're talking about the practical ideas and everyday improvements the show missed. We're somewhere between 100 and 1000 years early in knowing if TNG's creators got the big-picture stuff about the future right. But already there are a few humorous oversights?technologies the writers didn't envision in 1987 that we have just a quarter-century later.

As PopMech knows full well, it's a tough business predicting the future, and we continue to long for robot friends, antimatter engines, and 3D chess. So it's with geek love and respect that we look into how TNG would be changed if it were looking to the future from 2012 rather than from 1987. (These are simply our favorite five. Let us know what we missed.)

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