New and Updated Tech in Picard (Spoilers)

[Tom]

What new, and updated tech, have you noticed in Picard?

Beside the flesh and blood synthetic,s which is a plot point of the series, I have noticed heavy usage of Holograms controls. The thing that caught my eye the most was the super fast transporters. We not only see this with the Romulan assassins, but also the outside transporter gateway at Starfleet we see in the one of the trailers. They seem to de-materialize and materialize people really fast.

What else have you noticed so far?

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Holographic computer avatar for Index.

There's also a discussion going on about this in Trek Tech.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

I have noticed heavy usage of Holograms controls.

They actually did have holographic controls in TNG. Check out the orange things on Picard's desk:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/PDlg7.jpg

I'd say these were supposed to be holographic projections, but the FX wasn't available (or cost-worthy) back then.

 

[Jedman67]

Lots of Minority Report and Blade Runner feels as far as tech.
I would have been happier to see a bit more LCARS but that's just me.

 

[Dukhat]

The holographic control thing came about in DS9's "The Visitor's" future scenes when old Dax mentioned that she hadn't used non-holographic controls in a long time. Unfortunately, thanks to DSC, Starfleet was apparently using holographic controls ten years before TOS.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

They actually did have holographic controls in TNG. Check out the orange things on Picard's desk:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/PDlg7.jpg

I'd say these were supposed to be holographic projections, but the FX wasn't available (or cost-worthy) back then.

I always wondered what that thing was. It reminded me of a letter holder I made in woodwork class in high-school so I assumed JPL used it for the same purpose.

 

[Tuskin38]

They actually did have holographic controls in TNG. Check out the orange things on Picard's desk:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/PDlg7.jpg

I'd say these were supposed to be holographic projections, but the FX wasn't available (or cost-worthy) back then.

There were holographic displays in season 1, but they stopped using them probably because of cost.

 

[cooleddie74]

The replicator controls in Dahj's apartment had both touch controls as well as holographic buttons that projected above the surface. Other than that the main thing might be that food replicators now have some models which use a visible, very thin transporter ray or beam to materialize the drink or food selected.

 

[DaveyNY]

The replicator controls in Dahj's apartment had both touch controls as well as holographic buttons that projected above the surface. Other than that the main thing might be that food replicators now have some models which use a visible, very thin transporter ray or beam to materialize the drink or food selected.

I went back and watched that scene again.
It looked to me, like the beam formed the cup while the fluid materialized in it.
Kinda like a combination of a 3D printed teacup and replicated water with decaff tea.

 

[Ronald Held]

Should this thread be merged with one in Trek Tech?

 

[Crewman6]

They actually did have holographic controls in TNG. Check out the orange things on Picard's desk:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/PDlg7.jpg

I'd say these were supposed to be holographic projections, but the FX wasn't available (or cost-worthy) back then.

Plastic slides? I don't think we're supposed to "read" those as holograms.

TNG's first season DID have the occasional hologram, but they ditched them no doubt due to cost and the fact that they didn't look that great anyway.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

I went back and watched that scene again.
It looked to me, like the beam formed the cup while the fluid materialized in it.
Kinda like a combination of a 3D printed teacup and replicated water with decaff tea.

I never understood why it was so hard to just have a kettle and teabags on Picards enterprise.

 

[Timo]

The holographic control thing came about in DS9's "The Visitor's" future scenes when old Dax mentioned that she hadn't used non-holographic controls in a long time. Unfortunately, thanks to DSC, Starfleet was apparently using holographic controls ten years before TOS.

There's something of a difference between a holographic control and a holographic display, though. TNG had lots of holographic displays in the early days, but those weren't holographically controlled: in "The Last Outpost", say, Data hits (flat, virtual touchscreen) buttons on the desktop to give his Tkon presentation, and doesn't touch the hologram itself. DSC had holograms that were sometimes manipulated by touching them (finger-clicking and fingerspread-zooming was common, even if the Minority Reportesque throwing action Airiam did was a rarity), but the ship was still controlled by push-buttons, not via those holograms.

Of course, since DSC establishes that simple holograms (as opposed to transmissions or complex simulations) are visually indistinguishable from the real deal in 2250s already, we can label just about anything in TOS or TAS a hologram, too...

Timo Saloniemi