Maybe Scotty cannae change the laws of physics, but Audi's latest enterprise can

From: The Scotsman | Date: November 9, 2007| Author: Jim Dunn | Copyright information

FANS of Star Trek, otherwise known as Trekkies, on a sugar high will argue till your ears bleed that their beloved programme is more science fact than fiction as it accurately foretells the future.

Proof of the pudding, they argue, is that mobile phones, undreamed of when the first series was shown, are now actually smaller than the communicators used by Captain Kirk, Mr Spock and the rest of the original crew of the USS Enterprise.

Well, for their audience, willing or not, thi...

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