https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/scifi/ Recent content in Scifi on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/14/r-trek-exploring-stardates/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/14/r-trek-exploring-stardates/ Captain’s log Star date 71750.51. Our mission is to use R statistical software to extract star dates mentioned in the captain’s log from the scripts of Star Trek: The Next Generation and observe their progression over the course of the show’s seven seasons. There appears to be some mismatch in the frequency of digits after the decimal point – could this indicate poor ability to choose random numbers?