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Not the first time that has happened on a TV show. Not sure if it has happened with trek before.

If they think whatever text is there is going to be illegible on screen they'll just put any ol text there.

Judging by the size of the font, I doubt it would have been readable.
Actually, it has. In TMP and TWOK there was background radio chatter and on-screen references to Franz Joseph designs, leading many (such as myself) to believe that FJ's work was accidentally recanonized, countering Roddenberry's original orders.
 
Not the first time that has happened on a TV show. Not sure if it has happened with trek before.

If they think whatever text is there is going to be illegible on screen they'll just put any ol' text there.

Judging by the size of the font, I doubt it would have been readable.

I've seen it with Trek before, and with screens showing stuff on Agents of SHIELD as well.
 
^And there's probably some DSC graphic artist laughing maniacally right now at our confusion.

Sometimes they have some real fun with it. I spotted some great text on a computer screen in "Independence Day," of all things ("The reason for these greeblees is to lead you to think that these words mean something" and "And now I see with eye serene, the very pulse of the machine. Wordsworth."), but my personal favorite was on Stargate: Atlantis, where a pier on the city model read, in alien text, "You have too [much] time on your [hands]." You can see it here, if you read Ancient.
 
Well, it's not going to stop people from having fun with this part of the hobby, is it?
 
Love the Mudd callback (Harcourt Fenton Mudd, one of his descendants or ancestors) from episode 5. And the nod to Johnathan Archer in episode 4 (Star Trek Enterprise).
 
Good list. The only thing I can think of that they missed was "Lethe" was a character's name in "Whom Gods Destroy".
 
So Federation President's office is in Paris as we've seen in Trek, from TUC to Paradise Lost (which amazingly was all within a few years).

Not sure what's up with the Eiffel Tower though. I think this is the first shot of Paris at night, but why isn't the tower lit up?
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I assume it's the French optout of the "freedom of panorama" part of copyright law, but as a model you think they could light it themselves.
 
Not sure what's up with the Eiffel Tower though. I think this is the first shot of Paris at night, but why isn't the tower lit up?
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Maybe at some point they returned it to its original non-lit state? Also, the whole city seems a bit darker than usual, so maybe they're taking light pollution (and energy saving) a bit more seriously.
 
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