Nice to see Teri Hatcher in a Star Trek uniform. But seeing her be so easily seduced by Okona -- it was just outrageous.
As a old school programmer, I can tell you that displaying text on a console is often referred to as "print to screen." I took it as no wireless comms, i.e, messages would require input at a sender's "keyboard" to be displayed in printout form on the destination's screen.Encounter at Farpoint (TNG)
I've watched this episode many times, but I had never noticed that, in an attempt to hide their actions from Q, Picard ordered all transmissions (including intercom) deactivated, and messages were going to be sent by "print out". Not only is this really inefficient on a ship with over 1000 people, I've never seen a printer on the ship (and he specifically says printout). Now I'm imagining that the ship has hundreds of 80s style dot matrix printers that we just never see in case the captain wants to send messages by printout![]()
As a old school programmer, I can tell you that displaying text on a console is often referred to as "print to screen." I took it as no wireless comms, i.e, messages would require input at a sender's "keyboard" to be displayed in printout form on the destination's screen.
Also, laser printing is just about as old as dot-matrix.
Yet another carryover from The Cage.Encounter at Farpoint (TNG)
I've watched this episode many times, but I had never noticed that, in an attempt to hide their actions from Q, Picard ordered all transmissions (including intercom) deactivated, and messages were going to be sent by "print out". Not only is this really inefficient on a ship with over 1000 people, I've never seen a printer on the ship (and he specifically says printout). Now I'm imagining that the ship has hundreds of 80s style dot matrix printers that we just never see in case the captain wants to send messages by printout![]()
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