Star Trek, Star Wars, and Fictional Futuristic Births
"I wonder if, when a person is pregnant in Star Trek , they use a transporter to beam the baby out of the mother," my husband mused. We'd been watching our way through the 1993 delight that is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . I laughed, we continued the episode, and then I kept wondering: how does something as futuristic and supposedly utopian as the Star Trek Federation handle birth?