Attached Link: http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/just_for_fun/startrek.html

I was using Fortran IV in 1971, but imagine my surprise when a quick Google came up with this (from A Brief History of Fortran, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html): "This wonderful first FORTRAN compiler was designed and written from scratch in 1954-57 by an IBM team lead by John W. Backus and staffed with super-programmers like Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Herrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Robert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Richard Goldberg, Lois Haibt and David Sayre. By the way, Backus was also system co-designer of the computer that run the first compiler, the IBM 704." As for the science behind Star Trek, see the link; there was a book on the subject as well, but I can't turn up the author right now.