every screen in Disco is in night mode
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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How can Discovery have computers that can go into 'night mode' when the enterprise didn't have computers that could go into 'night mode' ten years later? Also, the computers in TNG, DS9 and VOY clearly weren't in 'night mode' either. How can discovery have computers that are more advanced than the 24th century ones.
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Night mode is usually a black background, so perhaps we've simply never ever seen a Star Trek computer operating in daytime mode.
Imagine it.
Who says they are?
Just because of what the screens look like? That's hardly definitive. Seriously, I don't think we ever saw an actual computer screen during all of TOS. Characters would TALK to the computer, but we never see a screen.
Indeed, that's one way TOS' computers are more advanced than those in DSC. The TOS computer can talk and respond to voice commands. As far as we know, the ones in DSC can't.
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Like the time it takes to get from planet to planet, it's all about the speed-of-plot. The ST equivalent of Wi-Fi could be subspace communications, or hyper subspace communications (5G?).
You must have missed the pilot episode, where Burnham talks the computer into releasing her from the wrecked brig. Or the episode where Saru asks the computer to compare his performance to famous Starfleet captains.
Starfleet realized that was a design flaw and decided to cut down on the AI
I'm pretty sure @mickmike meant his post as parody, no? In any case...
TOS screens in "night mode":
And in "day mode":
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Wow nice finds on the daytime mode screens! I was trying to imagine Trek graphics with white backgrounds...
Oh right. Forgot about the one from the Defiant...
I guess that's proof that Captain Blair isn't from the mirror universe
Ah, shit, he isn't canon. Thomas Blair, the guy who commanded the Defiant in Star Trek: Vanguard and all of Dayton Ward's novels.Who?
So... a hundred years later, when Data takes charge of the 1701D night crew (if you shouted that aloud, you’re on my wavelength), and the whole lighting scheme of the bridge went into night mode, what happened to the consoles then?
Otherwise the iconography here is a reference to TNG’s “Masks”. I wouldn’t put it past them.
Otherwise the iconography here is a reference to TNG’s “Masks”. I wouldn’t put it past them.
They aren't the only ones to be found in TOS, either...
"The Cage":
(There are a fair few more there as well—if they aren't all merely part of the illusion, that is!
)"Where No Man Has Gone Before":
(I left out Mitchell and Dehner's records because they are obviously scans of physical, printed documents with hand-written annotations...which I suppose could also apply to the following entry too.)
"Mudd's Women":
"Space Seed":
"The Tholian Web":
(Don't know if that's exhaustive, but it's obviously already more than enough to make the point.
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