1 Oct 2020

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Baakonite

From Nights, 7:37 pm on 1 October 2020

Duncan McGillivrary, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland gives us his scientific take on Baakonite from Star Trek - a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth. 

Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon

Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon Photo: Maximilian Reininghaus. Cropped by Fallschirmjäger / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)