Fake Science Paper About 'Star Trek' and Warp 10 Was Accepted by 'Predatory Journals'
A rather humorus take on just how the "hard science" community, is just as corrupt as the rest of the world, and why you have to vet your sources to at least ensure they are real...
This raises two questions.
1. Me dino was in Hollywood for only one day during the Summer of 1973, so how did I warp ahead in time to arrive on this particular Star Trek set?
2. Why was I not restored to my human form like all the other actors?
Perhaps me dino should write a paper, since I know where to submit it. But fake? What's fake?
Me dino can't possibly write fake. How can a guy transformed into a dinosaur by Warp 10 write anything that's fake?
You can get to it through the WayBack Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/201802140...
Threshold has the distinction of being the worse episode in the Star Trek franchise. The episode comes close to being so-bad-it's-good by having a character occupy every place in the universe at once, come back and spit out his tongue, mutate into a monster, kidnap the captain, cause her to mutate too, mate with the captain, have it all undone, and then laugh it off as an eventful couple of days and joke about who initiated the mating. It was WEIRD.
From the paper: "Two [human] subjects were allowed to breed, and a litter of three viable, motile progeny were produced with no obvious external physical deformity relative to the parents."
I can't believe they publish something that said they allowed two human beings to breed. It was a weird Star Trek episode and a very weird topic for a scientific paper.
BTW, this bogus journal is not a sign a that hard sign community is corrupt and we can't know anything through science.
"We thank the UFP for financial support. The authors also thank B. Braga for helpful insights." UFP (United Federation of Planets) B.Braga Brannon Braga who wrote the episode. The fact that psychobabble paper made it into any form and considered real, is pretty sad....