Star Trek: Federation Science

Star Trek: Federation Science was a long-running touring exhibition dedicated to illustrating the real science behind the Star Trek series. Produced by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (lead writer, Mark Bourne), the exhibit was originally developed to coincide with both the 25th anniversary and the 1992 International Space Year, and opened in, before becoming a touring exhibition and undertaking an extensive North American tour in September of that year. Two separate, but complete, exhibits toured at the same time. In, a new version of the exhibition began a multi-city European tour.

The exhibition featured over 40 modular touch-screen displays illustrating various scientific concepts, with interactive consoles featuring special "missions", along with instructional videos from Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner (in character as Data), LeVar Burton and Gates McFadden. The exhibition also included a special planetarium show, Star Trek: Orion Rendezvous.

Star Trek author Christopher L. Bennett was a staff member at the exhibition in Cincinnati in. At that venue, the exhibition attracted 88,926 visitors.

North America

 *  All dates have been derived from available, but limited, source material, and so may not be completely accurate. Dates in italics indicate approximations due to lack of sufficient information.


 * All locations are in the United States unless otherwise indicated.