This is Star Talk.

Welcome to Star Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

And tonight we're featuring our spate of Star Talk All-Sars, led by Charles Liu, a friend and colleague,

and he's our geek in chief with all things obscure and all things geek, especially as it relates to Star Trek.

This 50th anniversary of the first round of the series, I'm old enough to remember back then.

I remember sort of celebrating what that world was, little discs that had data on it.

You put it in a box and information would come out.

Your boxes where hot food would come out instantly, these things that were in so far distant future, you can barely imagine that they'll ever occur.

I also tried to, I had pretty strong grip at the time, I tried to grab people's shoulders and paralyze them.

The way Spock did never worked. So that's the only part of that I didn't believe.

That and the fact that doors would open automatically. I thought that was an impossibly far prediction for the future.

The door possibly though, that you're walking up to it, you can never know that. I don't know, it's magic.

So anyway, you all have a good time tonight. And Star Talk is all about learning science in the context of pop culture.

That's exactly what's going on. So I leave you in good hands. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson signing off, as always bidding you to keep looking up.

I am Charles Liu. I'm an astrophysics professor at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island. And this is Star Talk All Stars Live.

This is our first live All Stars show. And we're really excited to do it here. I cannot think of a better place to do it.

Then here at the Star Trek Mission New York on the 50th anniversary of the original series of Star Trek.

So thank you all for being here. We can't wait to hear your questions and your comments. But right now, let me bring on our wonderful panel.

Joining me tonight first as my comedic co-host, Mr. Chuck Nice.

Chuck. Chuck. How are you, buddy? I am well. Thank you. Thank you all for coming. It's a pleasure to have you all here. And we certainly appreciate Neil beaming in from his cat skills.

Hideaway. Cat skills. You see all those trees in the background. I don't know where he was.

Yeah, there's only the cat skills. Could there be that many trees? Absolutely. There's only two places in the world where there could be that many trees. The cat skills is one of them.

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