Over at the official blog of SyFy, called DVice, this fun video (if you’re a Star Trek fan like I am) takes you on a trip through time to watch how Star Trek effects have imagined what warp drive would look like over the years. The video shows you highlights from the old lightshows from the original trek movies, to the famous “rubber-band effect” from Star Trek: The Next Generation (which I admit, is still my favorite,) to the almost sliding effect of the later movies, to the most recent “pop” effect where ships that warp just seem to almost instantaneously slip away.

The video itself is really just geek fun, it’s not terribly informative in any way, but here’s a fun fact for you – today in 1966, 44 years ago exactly, the first episode of Star Trek, “The Man Trap,” aired for the first time on CBS. Fitting, eh?

[ DVice :: Video Du Jour: Star Trek’s Warp Drive Effect Through the Years ]