LMC science fiction studies professors Jay P. Telotte and Lisa Yaszek were recently interviewed for Wired Magazine's article, "What If Star Trek Had Never Existed?"

The article explores a “ A universe, where the next 50 years of sci-fi TV and movies look much different. So does the cultural breadth of television casts. So does your yearly pilgrimage to Comic-Con International. And, how our lives would be very different without Trek. ”

To learn what Telotte and Yaszek, experts in film and print science fiction, respectively, have to say about Star Trek's impact on art and society, please click through to: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/imagining-a-world-without-star-trek/.