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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x04 - "Memento Mori"

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Monitors? Who need monitors?
Paper, paper is the future!!!
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I like that they went to the trouble of typing out information on the paper. And labels on the controls .
 
eventually we're going to have to get to the bottom of the whole "can't fire a torpedo while cloaked" thing and damned if this episode didn't replicate my thoughts on the matter from when i was young - why not just open the door and let a bomb slide out?

with all the talk of how cloaking fields are power consuming, i think the implication was possibly that opening the door and having the full launch procedure would just be a no-go for power reasons? bomb bay would solve - powerless launches

anyway, i'm glad they did it. classic problem solving.
 
There is one fun connection to that printer, though, that survived in the franchise into the late '80s. In "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I(TNG)" when Picard and his senior officers think Q might be monitoring their transmitted communications and electronic signals he directs emergency orders to be sent to all decks of the Enterprise-D by printout only. Apparently paper was still a thing in the late 24th century even if only an emergency resort.
 
cooleddie74 said:
There is one fun connection to that printer, though, that survived in the franchise into the late '80s. In "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I(TNG)" when Picard and his senior officers think Q might be monitoring their transmitted communications and electronic signals he directs emergency orders to be sent to all decks of the Enterprise-D by printout only. Apparently paper was still a thing in the late 24th century even if only an emergency resort.
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Because omniscient, omnipresent beings for some reason can’t read a paper being printed on every printer on every deck of the ship… :lol:
 
ananta said:
Two minor complaints. Firstly, the dialogue sounds too contemporary at times. I never expected to hear the words “for the win” in Star Trek, and I really never want to hear the phrase “we/you/I GOT this” in Trek again. DISC has been guilty of that too. It’s far too 2022 California sounding. The former should have been weeded out the first draft (it wasn’t cute, it was jarring: I doubt anyone will use the words “for the win” in 10-20 years anymore than people still say “totes” and “amazeballs” now) and the latter can be replaced by “we/you/I can do this”. 90s Trek used language in a precise and universalistic way without contemporary colloquialisms slipping in that would date the show fast.
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The contemporary usage of "FTW / For The Win" dates back to Half-Life Usenet groups at the turn of the millennium, so it's already lasted over twenty years.

An earlier iteration of "For The Win" that popularized the phrase dates back to the Hollywood Squares gameshow (as in "I'll take Harvey Korman for the win") airing off and on from 1966-2004, so as old as Trek itself.

And even earlier version of "For The Win" as in "going for the win" comes from rugby and American football which dates back to the mid-19th century.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/50404/origin-of-the-phrase-for-the-win

So that's ~170 years of it being a recurring phrase. I don't see why it couldn't survive or pop up again in another 236, especially considering how generic it is.

All that being said, the show is supposed to speak to contemporary audiences about modern day issues in a language they can understand and relate to, so we suspend our disbelief when a crewmember drops a modern term and roll with it.
 
cooleddie74 said:
There is one fun connection to that printer, though, that survived in the franchise into the late '80s. In "Encounter at Farpoint, Part I(TNG)" when Picard and his senior officers think Q might be monitoring their transmitted communications and electronic signals he directs emergency orders to be sent to all decks of the Enterprise-D by printout only. Apparently paper was still a thing in the late 24th century even if only an emergency resort.
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Yup. The Talos IV report was in paper. Obviously paper is safer to keep less eyes from seeing it. Also we still haven't reached a paperless society as predicted when home computers were just getting traction in the 80s. We actually use more paper in some respects. Heck I just sold my house. No electronic signature allowed. It had to all be done with real ink on real paper. It was a lot of paper.
 
It’s all made in a replicator in the future anyways. There will certainly be paper, after all we’ve seen examples of paper-books in pretty much every iteration of Trek, but they won’t need to cut down trees anymore.
 
Mr Awe said:
He was burned by Berman Trek. Back then he started being a TNG apologist in the hopes of impressing the right people and become a staff writer. He wanted to take the route of Ron Moore and others who went from the slush pile to staff positions. When that didn't pan out, he felt personally wronged and is now anti that era. So, he's trashing that era and lashing out at anyone who says anything positive about it even if it doesn't make sense.
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EDIT: ^^^:guffaw:is laughing at Mr. Awe's preposterous claim about Serveaux.


Serveaux said:
Daystrom was handicapped by a screenwriter who knew nothing about computers.
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So, 99% of all screenwriters, then.

Jack Wolfe said:
He's squarely in this mode:
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So, Ballblazer.
 
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