Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News 20170922 00:57:00 : vi

>> "star trek" predicted the way you would scan someone is through a noninvasive way, without really touching them. >> reporter: "star trek's" tricorder? today we have c.t. scan, m.r.i., and ultrasound. what else has come true? >> where captain kirk would talk to someone on a flat-screen tv, tocan talk to a patient now, see their image, see their scans, remotely. >> reporter: dr. mccoy's hypospray helped inspire needle- free injectors. the visor that let geordi see, we have glasses that beam light to a chip implanted in the ltina. what about sick bay? >> they get on the bed and all of a sudden all the monitors would go on like the monitors we have here. and that has come true. we have wireless telemetry. >> reporter: we got a sneak preview into modern medicine from this "starship" sick bay, but at the end of the day, "star trek" was about a lot more than just fancy gadgets. it foresaw a world of inclusiveness with doctors of color, male and female.

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