The facts of the American space project and its Soviet counterpart elided seamlessly into the fantasy of “Star Trek”（1） and “2001: A Space Odyssey”（2）.

This would be the "high ground" for any number of space operations, space manufacturing, construction and commercialization; it could be a "space dock" straight out of the Star Trek universe.

Scientists can only make tiny amounts, even in the LHC — much to the disappointment of some Star Trek fans, who still dream of antimatter-powered spaceships like the Enterprise.