In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive ...

a ship traveling at warp 10 could theoretically travel anywhere in the universe instantaneously. This speed was purely ...

Sam Emerson/Paramount He was well into his 40s when he began playing Jean-Luc Picard on the long-running sci-fi series “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Trekkies should know that this pivotal ...

"Star Trek"'s warp drive has propelled countless starships across the galaxy. It uses matter/antimatter reactions to generate the high energies it requires to envelop the ship in a warp bubble.