Anatomy of a set
20. February 2025
The future from “Back to the Future” is the past
21. February 2025
On May 6, 2005, Hubert Zitt gave his first lecture at FedCon. He was the first to be invited as a speaker at this convention and, according to the organizer, it was an experiment at the time. Would anyone go? Would anyone be interested in the physics of Star Trek? Well, we now know the answers to these questions.
After 20 years, Hubert Zitt looks back at the beginnings, how it developed and what came of it. What has he experienced? What were special moments for him? Did Star Trek change his life? Are there funny anecdotes? And yes, there are, and he will tell them. For some of the stories, you probably have to be a fan to understand them. But that’s exactly what Hubert is at FedCon.
Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Hubert Zitt
Duration: 60 min - The Lecture will be held in: germanDr. Hubert Zitt studied electrical engineering and works as a lecturer in computer science at the Zweibrücken campus of the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern. In addition to his “normal” teaching activities, Hubert Zitt has become known throughout Germany (and beyond) for his Star Trek lectures.
Together with Gene Roddenberry Jr., the son of the creator of Star Trek, Zitt wrote the foreword to the book “Star Trek in Germany” in 2008. In the fall of 2008, he taught “Physics of Star Trek” as a regular course over an entire semester at a university in San Antonio, Texas.
Hubert Zitt has now given over 500 Star Trek lectures and appeared in several television programs about Star Trek. He has been a regular guest at FedCon since 2005 and was honored by his agency “5-Sterne-Redner” (5-Star Speakers) with the award “Most Extraordinary Speaker of the Year” for the year 2012. In 2024, he received the Communicator Award – A Tribute to Star Trek Fandom in the category “Speakers and Lecturers”.
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