Things we have now that Prime universe Trek did not foresee
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No, they had cameras with timers so you could run around to get in front, back in the 60's.Selfies.
"Selfie" is just another one of those words that tricks people into thinking something is hip and new, when it's really just a very slight update for something that's been around a while. Like "the Cloud".
In 2075, Captain M. Talarico and the crew of the UESS Sloane all perished when they were trapped by their safety belts and unable to reach the emergency pods before their vessel was destroyed by Kzinti pirates.
Ever since, the cornerstone of UESPA and later Starfleet policy was an absolute ban of all passenger restraining devices on warp ships.
Is that from lit or did you make that up?
Something I made up, obviously. Lit aren't allowed to reference the Kzinti.
Wifi was something I was going to say. It is definitely something Trek Prime, at least TNG, failed to foresee. I, Mudd androids, Nomad, and V'ger seemed to have wifi. In addition to cables, Data having to type 1000 words a second and reading computer screens really fast seems archaic, considering he could have just downloaded by wifi directly to his positronic brain.
They never realized that it was completely useless to carry padds on foot when you could just use the computer network.
I always thought they HAD WiFi, But Data himself was specifically designed to not have one. To make him as human as possible, and don't run the danger of a botnet taking Datas Server down or something like that... Basically so that the only people allowed to fiddle with his hard and Software are his creators, or people he trusts enough to put a Cable in his hard.
It doesn't make sense for data to even look at a screen, tap a keyboard, let alone talk to the computer when he can exchange info about a million times faster through a WIFI connection. In fact since we are in the far future it could as well be a million of millions times faster. Anyway, there are so many things that are wrong about Data that this is just a drop in a bucket.
Again: Data doesn't have a WiFi connection. The starship in Battlestar Galactica doesn't have one, either. For obvious reasons, that were in-depth explained in the series. In both universes an equivalent to a WiFi connection does exist though. It makes sense that Data doesn't have a wifi-connection. YOu can't get a computer virus just by scrolling through text. Access Wifi? Who seriously wants an advanced, sentient A.I. with top-secret military knowledge connected to the Internet?
Now if he were a product of starfleet, he probably would have a connection to the starfleet internal Intranet. But he was constructed privately, by a guy who was a genious, but had no access to military data connections. So he decided Data should only have a hardware connection. Pretty straightforward if you ask me. Now why he catched the common cold in this episode where he boned Tasha Yar? That's a completely different jar.
That only happens if he downloads programs. If he just dowload data then he's no more likely to get a virus than by listening to a conversation or watching a screen.
This is true - unless there is a big societal revolt against monitoring systems, every single thing that happens on a Starship should be monitored in 360 degree hi def - very similar, in fact, to the image that Kirk manipulates in Into Darkness. They don't even need cameras, they have sensors that can detect neutrinos, and all sorts of intricate details - they should be able to faithfully recreate something that happened in corridor 34 beta just prior to the mysterious event that is crucial to the plot. Down to detecting what was said by the sound waves. But of course Trek's sensors were always only as effective as the plot required.
I always thought a lack of text based communication was quite dated. Understandably, people talking is better for drama, but these days so much more communication is written (well, typed) than it was when TNG was on the air that it seems strange they only ever seem to talk to each other. I don't use my phone to make voice calls much now.
In TVH they are able to see the whales in the ocean at a great distance as if there was a camera in situ. Gillian even asks how they can do that but she receives no answer.
^The same way they can see approaching enemy ships from a distance. Perhaps the ship emits nanocams that fly out and allow for viewing angles that a stationary, rotating camera wouldn't be able to access.
They could always have the actors narrate the text information in their heads as it appears on the screen.
They could always have the actors narrate the text information in their heads as it appears on the screen.
I still don't get why they need all these people walking around the ship with padds, (including Janeway herself once) or why they can't access all the controls from every console on the ship or why they need to tell the computer to "enhance the picture". Can't the computer show the picture as enhanced as possible immediately? All that seems silly to me given that when these episodes have been shot we had already much better ways to transmit information.
So the computer's default settings need a tweak that nobody thought to give them. Not surprising, given the amount of work there is to do. (Though you fiddle around with the holodeck ALL THE TIME, but you can't change something which might be useful for ship's business?)
As for everyone using personal padds or needing to be at a certain location to enable something, it's security. The ship can be interconnected if necessary but isn't to mitigate the effects of system attacks and failures. As they are dealing with unknown, highly developed cultures all the time (some with tech they can't begin to imagine, let alone counteract), they need to be able to isolate systems from others. Otherwise, a tech savvy alien lightyears ahead of the Federation could exploit a flaw in the replicator programming and initiate the ship's self-destruct sequence.
Though to be honest, if they've reached that level of sophistication, they will probably be non-corporeal/have Q-level powers anyway...
I always thought text based communication today was quite dated. Telegram much?
