If I had a big desk and an unlimited supply of iPads I might open thing on each as well!
Do Federation ships have anything similar to wifi?
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If I had a big desk and an unlimited supply of iPads I might open thing on each as well!
The same as the 20th/21st Century picture quality the episode is filmed in.
The use of PADDs and even desktop devices in TNG could be a security precaution, If each device is encrypted or dead-ended, it might be harder for a hacker to infiltrate the ship's computer system from the outside. Given how often a ship might be in orbit around a planet or docked at a starbase, there could be constant cyber attacks over subspace channels.
It'd be sort of like how in Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, they relied on some old tech to foil cyber intrusions.
It'd be sort of like how in Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, they relied on some old tech to foil cyber intrusions.
That wouldn't explain the crateful of padds on Voyager, which just included Seven's parents logs from their Borg tracking days, hardly classified material. Or when they started letters from home, Neelix would run around the ship to hand deliver the padds to each person. E-mail would definitely be more efficient in that case, and arguably more secure since they even established that Neelix was reading each letter as he walked through the ship carrying it.
More PADDs, more hurdles.
We know Data has, or at least had, at least one transceiver because otherwise Soong wouldn't have been able to trigger his homing beacon in "Brothers".
You could always say that after the Section 31/Control debacle in 2258, Starfleet kept things lower tech for a few hundred years...
Also, what happens to all those PADDs after the fact? Do they get recycled or returned for new data? Like an e-reader?
Picard's hot cup of Earl Grey is made of recycled PADDs.
That's definitely an affectation of the Morale Officer. Playing old-fashioned Mailman to the troops.
Given the Enterprise-D, with 1000 crew, was nearly taken over by three fugitive Klingons and later on by ragtag bunch of Ferengi salvagers, I am not sure they were taking computer security all that seriously until the advent of ships designed to fight The Borg, like the Defiant and Sovereign classes.
Indeed.
Even the ship's coms could be accessed by people not even from the same time!
Neither the Klingons nor the Ferengi gained control of the ship's computer. Indeed, in the case the Ferengi, the problem they had was that they couldn't get access to the ship's computer because Riker changed the command codes on them and locked them out. The real issue was that both the Klingons and the Ferengi were already inside the Enterprise when they made their moves--they weren't attacking from the outside. And there's no real evidence that the Sovereign-class was designed to fight the Borg, only that it presumably was developed after the Galaxy-class.
I think it's an exaggeration to claim that the three Klingons nearly took over the ship as well. They did perhaps come close to blowing up the warp core and destroying the ship, but it's impossible for me to believe that they would have retained control of the ship for very long once they lost the element of surprise.
And really, it was just Korris who got to the warp core. Konmel was killed right outside the cell, and the other one died shortly after they arrived on the Enterprise.
Knowing what we know about Trek tech these days, I would have liked to have seen them simply put up a forcefield around the warp core.
I think only the Defiant was ever seen to be able to have a force field around its warp core. Maybe putting up a force field around the core was only possible on the Defiant. That might have something to do with the fact the top and bottom of the core was seen pretty much only in the one engine room, while on the Enterprise-D and Voyager, it spanned at least a couple decks.
It's clear that essentially everything is networked.
The thing that people forget is that... it's not 2024 in Space. It's the future. They won't necessarily use their technology exactly the same way we use it.
They do tend to carry around and deliver PADD's often. And... so what? They ALSO are totally capable of transmitting text, audio, visuals, etc. and they do as well. I believe they have just evolved something of a cultural preference to just pass along information on physical media. PADD's themselves seem to be essentially disposable, they're Space Paper.
I chalk alot of it up to simply being cultural preference. Even something like Picard's laptop in his ready room. "Her der it's big and fat, clearly less advanced than a MacBook."... but why? Does "small and thin" always equal better? Perhaps we just moved away from being obsessed with things being wire thin and fragile. The terminal/laptop thing is kind of chunky more so as an aesthetic choice. It could be paper thin, and they certainly have things that ARE, but there's no real reason to assume people in the 2360's have exactly the same aesthetic sensibilities as we do in 2024.
The thing that people forget is that... it's not 2024 in Space. It's the future. They won't necessarily use their technology exactly the same way we use it.
They do tend to carry around and deliver PADD's often. And... so what? They ALSO are totally capable of transmitting text, audio, visuals, etc. and they do as well. I believe they have just evolved something of a cultural preference to just pass along information on physical media. PADD's themselves seem to be essentially disposable, they're Space Paper.
I chalk alot of it up to simply being cultural preference. Even something like Picard's laptop in his ready room. "Her der it's big and fat, clearly less advanced than a MacBook."... but why? Does "small and thin" always equal better? Perhaps we just moved away from being obsessed with things being wire thin and fragile. The terminal/laptop thing is kind of chunky more so as an aesthetic choice. It could be paper thin, and they certainly have things that ARE, but there's no real reason to assume people in the 2360's have exactly the same aesthetic sensibilities as we do in 2024.
The E-E has one in Nemesis as well. In any event, at least after the events of "Heart of Glory" one would think that a 'lesson learned' would be that more security measures are needed with regard to the warp core.
...yeah, yeah, it's a TV show, and the E-D has multiple security failures throughout the series, and if their security was all it should have been then several of those episodes wouldn't have even been possible to begin with...
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