Star Trek

Star Trek is a popular science fiction franchise created by. Apple and its products have been influenced by, featured in, and used in the production of Star Trek television programs and films.

History
Steve Wozniak became a fan of the original  before he co-founded the Apple Computer Company in 1976. The first program that Wozniak had ever run on his Apple I prototype was an early to test the functionality of his Integer BASIC interpreter. The source code had already been ported to for the C minicomputer at Hewlett-Packard, where Wozniak had been working at the time.

Apple products in Star Trek
In the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, released in 1986, chief engineer Montgomery Scott is seen using a Macintosh Plus computer to demonstrate the molecular structure of transparent aluminum. In real life,  was used years later for the transparent faces of Apple Watches as well as protective camera lens coverings for the iPhone 5S and later.

For the production of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1993, Denise Okuda used a Macintosh Quadra 700 to design LCARS interface panels.

For the production of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2002, an array of sixteen Power Mac G4 Cubes running Macromedia Director were used to generate the screens of the Enterprise NX-01 in real time, with Michael Okuda acting as the system administrator.