I've managed to avoid the obvious, but every Star Trek buff knows where we're headed. That's right: the . It's a to permit Captain Kirk to talk with his ship and crew. Nokia liked the parallels between the Star Trek device and modern cellphones so much that it actually produced based on Captain Kirk's communicator. But by Samsung's 2001: Space Odyssey standard, the entire cellphone industry was anticipated by Gene Roddenberry. Who knows how many of Nortel and Motorola patents for which Google, Microsoft, and Apple have recently decided to shell out billions are design patents that under Quinn Emanuel's Space Odyssey standard are invalid because of Star Trek prior art?