Keeping an ion technology..

[Dannyalcatraz]

If you put Whorf in a stasis box, does that make him a static Klingon?

 

[Aeson]

I am shocked how quickly this all went down hill. You're grounded.

 

[Tonguez]

I am shocked how quickly this all went down hill. You're grounded.

You cannae change the laws of physics, Captain

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I am shocked how quickly this all went down hill. You're grounded.

Isn’t that ionic, don’t you think?

 

[Aeson]

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

 

[Blue]

The flip phone design was based on the Star Trek communicator. A lot of practical things were inspired by fiction.

Robert Heinlein had a number of SF story ideas become real. Water beds were inspired by his water-filled acceleration couches, but even more direct are waldos - in the story "Waldo" he named them after their (fictional) creater Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones.