10 Examples Of Real Science In Star Trek

When the Borg were first introduced in the Next Generation episode, Q Who?, the idea of enabling telepathy (or mind-reading) with technology was nothing more than a fantasy. Nowadays, as neural implants get more and more advanced, companies such as Neuralink, claim to be close to making technological telepathy a reality.

Already, Neuralink has shown that its test implants can allow monkeys to control computers with their brains. The various wires from the implant connect to parts of the brain that can fire electrical signals. These connections allow information from the brain to be interpreted as data in a computer. Theoretically, one day, these signals could be sent and received by another Neuralink user, and the two could communicate using only their brains.

Neuralink is a still very far from being able to discern complex thoughts like full sentences, and it still lacks any ability to receive messages that the brain can understand, but the idea of technology allowing our brains to operate machinery, rather than our bodies, already exists and is eerily similar to the tech used by the Borg in Star Trek. The Collective itself is a society of millions of Borg drones, connected telepathically with each other.