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On-screen tech in next series

One thing the new trek series should definitely invest in: surge protectors, fuse boxes and circuit breakers.
This is the future, we don't need those! ;)

Also, I love the term that someone came up with in a scifistack exchange: Starfleet Issue Protective Isolators:cool:

Also, will starship operating systems get a blue screen or red ring?

And give the uniforms pockets!
Yes, please! So I can carry all my gadgets on my mission to another planet.
 
One thing the new trek series should definitely invest in: surge protectors, fuse boxes and circuit breakers.

Amen!

And to sound futuristic they can call them Quantum Isofuses, or maybe a Quantum Surge Interrupt.

All I can think of now is Geordi saying, "We can't shut down the core reactor, we'll have to overload the Quantum Isofuses which will cause a surge and shutdown the reactor."
 
Does the sixth iteration of Star Trek really have to presage technological innovation? Hasn't Star Trek predicted enough? Can't the franchise rest on its laurels and maintain a visual language for the sake of nostalgia? Especially when the originals were home runs?

I haven't heard anyone look at the Star Wars trailers and say, "Ugh, it's the same Millennium Falcon. It looks so 70's!"

I mean if you went to Silicon Valley and talked to futurists they'd talk about increased lifespans, AI, robot helpers, cybernetics, self-driving cars, carbon sequestration, solar power, fuel cells etc...

But those are solutions to 21st century problems. What about 25th, 26th century problems?
 
We should see more of those guys with computer parts in their heads, like in ST:ID.
Cybernetic augmentation is the wave of the future.

...or not.

Kor
 
While TNG had PADD that forshadowed the iPad tablet computer only 25 years later and VOY & ENT didn't exactly have much new tech used on-screen what _WILL_ we see on-screen in this new Trek TV series?

Probably real iPad Minis used as PADDs with Okudagrams
Probably all LED practical lighting built-into the ship similar to on ENT.
The usual audible voice commands for the computer
Consoles for navigation, coms, helm control on the bridge. This traditional 1900-2000s naval ships layout still works for the drama in ship-to-ship combat so i doubt we'll see people sitting in cubicles or in rows like a NASA contril room on computers.
A large viewscreen on the bridge for communications and visual camera views of outside.
A new type of power source not a Warp drive. Is that Trek sacriledge?
Replicators
Turbolifts
The old fashioned Jefferies tube
Hand phasers
Tricorders

What technology from canon will the new show NOT keep?

I like everything except new type of power source, tho that could be worked into the show at a later season through story, to take us where no one has gone before!
 
What cutting-edge technology would I like to see in the new show?

Robots.
Not the *special snowflake* Data-kind, but the I, robot-everyday kind. Maybe just show them on Earth and the colonies and explain humanoid robots aren't allowed on starships, because .... ? They got hacked in the past? At least something, that explains why they have never shown up in past series.

Rovers.
You know, the wheel is an invention that's thousands of years old, and still working just fine? I would like to see them cruisin' exoplanets like the guys in Prometheus or the Robinsons in Lost in Space did.

Classic communicators.
Okay, modern mobile phones are already smaller than Trek's communicators. But you knowh what? They are robust military technology, communicating between planets without infrastructure like telemasts. Have you ever seen modern military radios? They're freakin' huge! Also, the tricorders and communicators could be merged, like you said before.

More and smaller medicine technology
I say: Let the doctor wear a small case on his away missions. And in this case are multiple medicine- instruments, with which he can operate in sterile conditions, grow new flesh on the fly, etc. etc. etc.

James Bond gadgets
James Bond has a watch, that can shoot lasers, hack computers and detonate. Also, it has a grappling hook, that can be shot at the ceiling and than pull Bond out of danger. I want to see something like that in Star Trek.

More bugs
Seriously. In Star Trek technology always works and is always compatible. In reality, technology is getting more and more complicated, and is starting to develop more and more a life on it's own. (really, how often have you to either restart your computer or wait until he fixes a problem on it's own, because you yourself aren't capable anymore of identifying and fixing the problems of your computer?)

Genetic meddling
Yeah, that's augments, and it's illegal in the Trek universe. I want to see bad guys using it. Giving themselves genetic improvements, and also augmenting their appereance and their race to hide undercover.

Giant computers running whole civilisations
You know, classic, campy 60s' Trek? Seems more relevant today than ever.

Technology being invisible
I think, the more advanced technology is, the more it tries to blend into the background. It's only on Federation starships where we see the relative robust, but clunky technology. I think on earth, a normal room might look like a room out of the 19th century: Book shelves. A fire place. A couch facing a table, instead of facing to the television (because there is none). And whenever you do need technology, for example for a phone call, you can sit on your couch, and a holographic window will appear in front of you, in the middle of the room, wherever you need it (and might even move with you, when you're walking the apartement). Hungry? Prder some food, and it will get replicated in the middle of your table, and disappear once you have finished. Go outside? Small robots star cleaning the place, pour the plants, and disappear into the wall once you come back.

Working public transportation systems
Something really outlandish and futuristic. Also: More sidewalks and people on bikes. Once you can literally go anywhere in no time (beaming), people might appreciate good old human exercise a bit more.


In general:
I think in the development of "more sophisticated but tinier" technology, we are right now in a phase of fast development. But we can already see the limits, and there absolutely will be an end to how miniaturized technology will get. The focus should lie more on the social implications of new technology, than the technology itself.

As for "which tecnology is absolutely unimaginable now, but is already predicted by Star Trek"?
How about FTL travel? Engines that can take you into earth orbit in minutes while being reusable? Replicators? (As in super advanced 3D printers) Holodecks? (But used for virtual reality, not "trapped in a Sherlock Holmes story"). Try to dive a bit more into that (Can we "replicate" living beings? What will be the usages for a technology that can simulate literally any reality? Will people have long-distance relationships through the holodeck?) What about universal translators? (How much are we actually talking to another (non-)human being, and how much are we talking with an A.I. that imprints it's own manners onto the conversation?)

Also: drones. Imagine a robot walking on a planet and talking to it's natives, but in reality a guy is in a spacehip, sitting on the holodeck, while all the recorded environment by the robot of said planet is projected as a hologram around the human?
 
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One thing is for sure, though:

The technlology shown in Star Trek shouldn't be realistic.
It should be technology we want to have.
 
I want to see an episode where Kirk and the Enterprise visit a world ruled by an AI into which the wealthiest five percent of the population have uploaded their consciousnesses so they can live forever while most of the humanoid population is impoverished and suffering under the torturous environmental conditions brought about by centuries of accelerating technological and population growth powered by fossil fuels.

"We are the Singularity," the mass-consciousness AI booms at Kirk, in an electronically filtered version of Bart LaRue's voice.

Then Kirk utterly destroys the Singularity and frees the humanoids.

And off to next week's allegory - The End! ;)
 
I want to see an episode where Kirk and the Enterprise visit a world ruled by an AI into which the wealthiest five percent of the population have uploaded their consciousnesses so they can live forever while most of the humanoid population is impoverished and suffering under the torturous environmental conditions brought about by centuries of accelerating technological and population growth powered by fossil fuels.

"We are the Singularity," the mass-consciousness AI booms at Kirk, in an electronically filtered version of Bart LaRue's voice.

Then Kirk utterly destroys the Singularity and frees the humanoids.

And off to next week's allegory - The End! ;)

…Next week on Frontline, seen on most of these PBS stations.
 
I'd like to see more technology integrated into the uniform. Maybe a wrist mounted communicator/PADD hybrid, but looks like a giant smart watch where the band is part of the screen.
 
James Bond gadgets
James Bond has a watch, that can shoot lasers, hack computers and detonate. Also, it has a grappling hook, that can be shot at the ceiling and than pull Bond out of danger. I want to see something like that in Star Trek
I like the idea! :bolian: One thing that could distinguish Trek from grim dark shows...would be Trek being fun!. :)
 
Does the sixth iteration of Star Trek really have to presage technological innovation? Hasn't Star Trek predicted enough? Can't the franchise rest on its laurels and maintain a visual language for the sake of nostalgia? Especially when the originals were home runs?

But, by your own argument, predicting technology has always been part of Trek. Also, I suspect the market for retro-style sci-fi is pretty limited.
 
Does the sixth iteration of Star Trek really have to presage technological innovation? Hasn't Star Trek predicted enough? Can't the franchise rest on its laurels and maintain a visual language for the sake of nostalgia? Especially when the originals were home runs?
Star Trek should look like our future, meaning the future based on the 2010s and not the 1960s or 1970s.

I haven't heard anyone look at the Star Wars trailers and say, "Ugh, it's the same Millennium Falcon. It looks so 70's!"
Because it's supposed to be the same exact Millennium Falcon 30 years later. Besides the Falcon is meant to have an old appearance. The Enterprise is supposed to be a top of the line ship.

I mean if you went to Silicon Valley and talked to futurists they'd talk about increased lifespans, AI, robot helpers, cybernetics, self-driving cars, carbon sequestration, solar power, fuel cells etc...

But those are solutions to 21st century problems. What about 25th, 26th century problems?
We don't know what their problems will be. Star Trek is about contemporary issues in a science fiction settings, it's not a documentary about the future of humanity that is oddly obsessed with extremely retro design trends.
 
Trek has been at risk for falling behind the Information Revolution of recent years.

Yes, Trek needs to work hard at keeping up with IT.

On the other hand, American troops adopted a handy tool in Iraq/Afghanistan-the tomahawk. Useful for chopping down a door, or close quarters combat.
 
At the risk of copying the old show Andromeda, have a AI that is the personification of the ship itself. The character of Rommie wasn't just a android/hologram, she was the ship.

Subdermal communicators would look like people talking to themselves.
And every other episode when the villain of the week takes them away, I would imagine that the process would be messy and bloody.
 
What cutting-edge technology would I like to see in the new show?

Robots.
How about droids as depicted in the SW EU? Cleaning droids, waiter droids. No angst about whether they're human or not. Just there. (and preferably 'uncommon' i don't want to see a C3PO character on trek).

Done already in Nemesis with the Argo. Having one of these available for away missions would be nice.
Classic communicators.
You need to take into account the prospective budget and comfort for actors, as well as "rule of cool". I'm more partial to wrist communicators worn like smartwatches, leaves your hands free.

More and smaller medicine technology
I say: Let the doctor wear a small case on his away missions. And in this case are multiple medicine- instruments, with which he can operate in sterile conditions, grow new flesh on the fly, etc. etc. etc.
Bring it on! I want to see more props for medical equipment.

James Bond gadgets
James Bond has a watch, that can shoot lasers, hack computers and detonate. Also, it has a grappling hook, that can be shot at the ceiling and than pull Bond out of danger. I want to see something like that in Star Trek.
Yes!

Technology being invisible
If it's invisible how can you tell you're in the future? It has to engage the audience as well as the cast; which means more iPads and less holograms.

Working public transportation systems
Something really outlandish and futuristic. Also: More sidewalks and people on bikes. Once you can literally go anywhere in no time (beaming), people might appreciate good old human exercise a bit more.
Unlimited beaming all the place, all the time got a little tiring (especially in voyager) and there was no rhyme or reason why it couldn't work, except when demanded by plot. I would limit beaming in general to require use of at least 1 transporter station except in extreme emergencies. Install an emergency transporter platform in sickbay, for example. And people having to commute to work rather than just beaming in to their stations makes a lot more sense to the audience.

At the risk of copying the old show Andromeda, have a AI that is the personification of the ship itself. The character of Rommie wasn't just a android/hologram, she was the ship.
Ugh, no! Andromeda/Rommie was incredibly confusing and creepy.
 
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Earlier in this thread we were discussing why the tricorders and communicators weren't combined. While researching some prop photos, I came across a screen used hero tricorder used in DS9, Voyager, First Contact, and Insurrection that had sold at auction. From the photos, specifically the one I included above, it seems there was some level of integration of communicators and tricorders. Wonder why that was never established onscreen?
 
I wonder if that was more a networking facet of the tricorder relying upon the ship's computer versus acting independently.

But, that's just a thought. The functioning of a tricorder always seemed plot dependent anyway.
 
At the risk of copying the old show Andromeda, have a AI that is the personification of the ship itself. The character of Rommie wasn't just a android/hologram, she was the ship.

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Watson!

He has been doing commercial spots so he must understand the concept of acting. I wonder if SAG would approve?
 
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