To me it's just too alien to be connected to our technological innovation.
It just isn't our technological innovation, in universe. It is something that was likely designed and built by a multitude of different species.
Except TOS was originally Earth so it was at least supposed to be recognizable as human and understandable to some degree.
I never had any issues understanding it. Even before working with that kind of machinery.
It's believable enough in some aspects, not so much in others. The alien influence retcon helps somewhat with that.I never had any issues understanding it. Even before working with that kind of machinery.
One was an update, The other was nostalgia bait,
I use this thing:
all the time to make drum beats and control synthesizers. It's easily the most intuitive interface I.ve ever used and it doesn't have an LCD, LED, etc. Once you use something like that it makes sense. I think the TOS jolly-ranger displays make more sense than the holo displays. LCARS.. i don't know but I'd like to think it would be intuitive if someone made a version that really worked like it was meant to.
I think it's strictly headcanon, anyway. If wishes were horses*, and all that.
* - canonical, though
Sure, since it’s devolved into a ‘your opinion is wrong’ fest. Not that anyone here isn’t having a civilized conversation about it rather than a Reddit meltdown, but it has gotten to that point. So this conversation is now decanonized.
Is this a horse drawn canon?
Best I can answer is that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is, as of right now, canon!
Left and right.Best I can answer is that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is, as of right now, canon!
I used to say Living Witness, as good as it was, because it gave too much information about the distant future without involving time travel. Obviously not an issue anymore. Maybe Fury from Voyager since I didn't like the idea that Janeway now knew about Seven before meeting her, but I know that's really not a good enough reason.
Really, I'll just say The Host. It's just so radically inconsistent with what we see from the Trill on DS9. Usually it can just be explained away with some loophole, but there's no way to pretend they were talking about something else, or retcon it.
Really, I'll just say The Host. It's just so radically inconsistent with what we see from the Trill on DS9. Usually it can just be explained away with some loophole, but there's no way to pretend they were talking about something else, or retcon it.
The Enterprise-D bridge never really needed updating because it still looks incredible today. Even if you can't stand the floating late-80s yuppie office aesthetic it gives off, it just looks so believable as a place, simultaneously grounded enough to feel real and sleek enough to feel futuristic.
Again, apparently nobody, not even the production crew, ever thought so. Look at how many "It's like the TOS bridge only more / less futuristic" we've gotten. Voyager, Enterprise, First Contact. There's never been a precursor or a successor to the D bridge.
The closest they ever came: throw in those separated con and ops consoles: It's a stepping stone from the A to the D. But it's really TOS with TNG window dressing.
The TNG bridge is a more futuristic-looking version of the TOS bridge.
Eh, I don't know if I can agree with that. While it obviously serves the same function, it's a very different layout, one that I never really cared for, if I'm being honest.
It has all the components. It's round, stations around the periphery. Helm in front, captain in center, a railing even. If the other series' bridges are reduced to being TOS knockoffs*, so is TNG's! Singling out the TNG bridge as being the sole example in its own lineage is patently absurd; it's with all the others!
Now, the multi-deck open space that was sketched, instead of what we got would have been its own thing.
* - I don't actually think any of them are knockoffs.
I think it's the minimalist aesthetic that sets it apart from the rest. The other bridges are busier, with more chairs and consoles surrounding the captain. The Enterprise-D just has these massive walls on either side that are basically bare. It's one of the reasons I like the Generations version of the bridge much more than the regular series version.
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