About Us
The concept for Does It Fly? Came from one of our favorite stories about Gene Roddenberry. When he was working with the designer, Matt Jefferies, on the look of the Enterprise it was very important to Gene that it followed an aircraft logic – it had to fly! We decided to ask that question about Star Trek and all your other sci-fi and pop culture properties.
In our first episode, noted astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi and pop culture expert Tamara Krinsky tackle Star Trek’s transporter to see if it makes sense from a scientific perspective. Does the transporter follow its own rules and stay consistent from a story perspective? And regardless of those answers, is it just so cool that we’re going to geek out over it anyway? Find out what they discovered by heading over to YouTube and checking out the first episode. Don’t forget to like and subscribe!
Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi
Hakeem is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, veteran, and humanitarian. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he enrolled in Tougaloo College, where he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Mathematics before getting his MS and PhD in Physics from Stanford University. Oluseyi helped design and launch the Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, has worked on semiconductor research at Applied Materials, and was a research fellow at Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. He also holds more than a dozen patents. Oluseyi has been a faculty member at various universities and has also recently published his autobiography A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars. He’s appeared as a commentator/judge on shows like How the Universe Works, Curiosity, NASA’s Unexplained Files, and Netflix’s Baking Impossible.
Tamara Krinsky
Tamara is an actress, writer, on-air correspondent, and interactive media producer. Her on-camera hosting work feeds her eternal curiosity, as well as her appetite for writing and producing. Red carpets, studio interviews, on location adventures—she loves it all! As Marvel’s red-carpet host, she’s anchored the livestream broadcasts for some of the biggest movies in the world, like Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame and Black Panther. She cohosts Tomorrow’s World Today on Discovery/Science Channel, where she travels around the country profiling the latest, greatest, technology, science, and sustainability efforts. Other hosting adventures have included the Oscars and the Emmys for The Red Carpet Report; writing/hosting Girls Gone Geek, a panel show about geek culture from a female perspective; hosting red carpet coverage for the Producers Guild Awards; and correspondent work for PBS’ Wired Science.
