A soft board is made of particleboard or some other soft wood material on which cloth is stretched and tacked onto. Compressing the particles that remain after cutting of wood makes a particleboard. The cloth, which it is covered, is usually thick cotton; sometimes-soft jute may also be used.
In the movie Star Trek, space is considered to be the final frontier. Since ordinary civilians are not yet able to complete the voyage to seek new worlds, the best thing anyone can do is reach out to people in different states and countries by communicating in cyberspace.