Way! You can see the very preliminary ship design
here. The designer admits Star Treck's contribution to the design, but that does not mean it is not a serious effort.
Beam me up Scotty. There's no intelligent life at NASA.
Jon, don't tell me you are one of those who believes the moon landings took place in a Hollywood studio.
I'm old enough to remember reading some not even half baked theories that traveling faster than the speed of sound would be fatal to human life, but I have traveled faster than sound and I am still here. I just wish I thought I would be around long enough to see NASA's FTL comer to fruition! Maybe my grandsons will see it. I hope so.
Have I got a land and/or bridge deal for you! wink tongue
I already own some swamped land in Florida it is called Disney's Old Key West Resort at Walt Disney World and I go there at least twice every year. To quote Walt Disney, "If someone can imagine it, someone can build it" and he proved that over an over again. I can imagine FTL travel and NASA can imaging FTL travel, but they have a lot better chance at building it than I do.