Old Technology still being Used...

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In all Treks TV and Films, what do you recll about a piece of 23/24 cent technology that left you a more than just a little uninspired. And we right here right now have better, cooler and technology. What is the once piece of "Treknology" that leaves you a bit uninsprired and we have abetter techo-piece that is way better...

 

[Plecostomus]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

 

[Rob Grant]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

Your an idiot you know that.. with ur smiley face of smugness.

Your mobile couldnt contact an starship through subspace id imagine.. or a hell of a lot of other things..

plus the 2 are different things..

1 is for a normal people knocking about on planets..

2 is a specialized thing for space explorers...

FAIL

 

[Plecostomus]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

Your an idiot you know that.. with ur smiley face of smugness.

Your mobile couldnt contact an starship through subspace id imagine.. or a hell of a lot of other things..

plus the 2 are different things..

1 is for a normal people knocking about on planets..

2 is a specialized thing for space explorers...

FAIL

Yes but my phone can take pictures, video too! Something that would come very much in handy on an away mission.

Also: I have an app that displays a pair of boobs and they giggle when you shake the phone. I don't see Kirk's communicator doing that.

 

[Captrek]

The Klingon language printed books in TUC come to mind.

Also absurd is that personal combat weaponry in the 23rd and 24th century still consists of point-and-shoot weapons. Here in the early 21st century we are developing robots that can move around a battlefield intelligently (either on the ground or flying through the air), identify targets and attack them without exposing a human operator to counterattack. This can be done either with artificial intelligence or with remote control by a human operator. But it’s not done in Star Trek.

An even simpler combat technology that the world of Star Trek seems to have lost is grenades. We constantly see battle scenarios in which grenades would be useful, but nobody ever uses them. Apparently in the future they forget how to make them.

Also in the world of Star Trek people still carry data around on cards, or PADDs, or isolinear rods, or whatever. “Vulcans stole my PADD” is still an excuse for a kid not having his homework. Data can’t be stored securely on a wireless network?

 

[Anwar]

Data can’t be stored securely on a wireless network?

That'd make it hard for him to go on away missions now wouldn't it?

 

[Misfit Toy]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

Your an idiot you know that.. with ur smiley face of smugness.

Knock off the personal attacks. The thread asked for a response and that's what Pleco's post was. Your "idiot" comment goes too far and won't be tolerated here.

 

[Arpy]

Using simple cloth uniforms. By the 23rd century, clothes will be wearable computers...they'll record everything the wearer sees, hears, feels... What's more, they'll provide a micro-environment for the wearer in moderately harsh climates, and perform minor first aid and maintain their hygiene, eliminating any unwanted bodily excretions (like those stillsuits from Dune). They'll have built-in communicators to maintain contact with home-base and PADDs to maintain contact with the wealth of human knowledge. They'll protect from simple threats like punches, bites, blades, and projectiles...maybe lower phaser settings (bullet-proof vests). They'll be camouflage adaptable like the red spy suits in INS (wanna watch a movie on my chest?) and capable of disrupting minor unwanted scans (like the Jem'Hadar self-cloaking).

Heck, my pants are more stain resistant than the standard Starfleet uniform.

They'd still be susceptible to Romulan disruptors or special atom-sharp Klingon blades, and they won't protect the wearer from lava or airless environments or alien spores of the weak, but they'd be a hell lot more realistic than the ever-changing-yet-always-the-same Flash Gordon costumes we've seen for how many decades now.

Rant ended.

 

[Kaziarl]

I don't know if we will actually have them, but I do see it as a possibility that by the 23rd century, maybe even mid 22nd, that we'll have holographic interfaces. Best example I can think of, since I've been re-watching it lately, is the Taylon interfaces on Earth Final Conflict

 

[CaptainStoner]

The Klingon language printed books in TUC come to mind.

A very dumb scene that was. It also made Uhura look incompetent.

Also absurd is that personal combat weaponry in the 23rd and 24th century still consists of point-and-shoot weapons. Here in the early 21st century we are developing robots that can move around a battlefield intelligently (either on the ground or flying through the air), identify targets and attack them without exposing a human operator to counterattack. This can be done either with artificial intelligence or with remote control by a human operator. But it’s not done in Star Trek.

We did see bots like that in S1 TNG. I think it's a Starfleet thing, but also perhaps the "wagon train to the stars" element.

An even simpler combat technology that the world of Star Trek seems to have lost is grenades. We constantly see battle scenarios in which grenades would be useful, but nobody ever uses them. Apparently in the future they forget how to make them.

INS shows Worf with some kind of bazooka, but I have to agree. Perhaps the avoidance of grenade-type weapons is related to Starfleet philosophy, or just an overconfidence in the phaser. I think one of the worst examples is when the Dominion are making a ground assault and Starfleet is defending, and its another western shootout.

Also in the world of Star Trek people still carry data around on cards, or PADDs, or isolinear rods, or whatever. “Vulcans stole my PADD” is still an excuse for a kid not having his homework. Data can’t be stored securely on a wireless network?

But they're cool props!

I wonder if there was something in the writing guide stating that battles should be like old westerns.

 

[barnaclelapse]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

Your an idiot you know that.. with ur smiley face of smugness.

Your mobile couldnt contact an starship through subspace id imagine.. or a hell of a lot of other things..

plus the 2 are different things..

1 is for a normal people knocking about on planets..

2 is a specialized thing for space explorers...

FAIL

Yes but my phone can take pictures, video too! Something that would come very much in handy on an away mission.

Also: I have an app that displays a pair of boobs and they giggle when you shake the phone. I don't see Kirk's communicator doing that.

Plus, ring tones.

I'll bet some of those TOS season three episodes would have been much improved if Kirk's communicator suddenly started playing "Radio Nowhere" at an extremely inopportune moment.

 

[SeerSGB]

Also in the world of Star Trek people still carry data around on cards, or PADDs, or isolinear rods, or whatever. “Vulcans stole my PADD” is still an excuse for a kid not having his homework. Data can’t be stored securely on a wireless network?

No computer is completely secure. And we see 'Trek computers get hacked often enough to know that it's still true a couple of centuries from now. We're thinking "20th/21st" century security but remember it's all relative: Increase the level of technology, and you also increase the level of sophistication of people who want to break into said technology.

Who was it that said ""The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power turned off and the network cable cut. And even then I'd have my doubts."

 

[CaptainStoner]

I'll bet some of those TOS season three episodes would have been much improved if Kirk's communicator suddenly started playing "Radio Nowhere" at an extremely inopportune moment.

Or any number of things.

"You da' you da' best, the best I ever had..."

"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes..."

 

[Anwar]

Didn't the communication thing Young Kirk got called on in NuTrek have a ringtone?

 

[john titor]

the cathode ray monitors in VI

 

[sbk1234]

Those spray bottle things that Bones had in sickbay.

 

[FalTorPan]

The communicators. My cellphone does more.

Your an idiot you know that.. with ur smiley face of smugness.

Your mobile couldnt contact an starship through subspace id imagine.. or a hell of a lot of other things..

plus the 2 are different things..

1 is for a normal people knocking about on planets..

2 is a specialized thing for space explorers...

FAIL

I find this post... amusing.

As for old tech in Trek, I wonder how "modern" it is to require all bridge officers to be physically co-located in one room -- the bridge. Given current business trends in virtual teams, as well as the presumably much more advanced communication and visualization technology of the 23rd and 24th centuries, what is the purpose of having everyone sit or stand in the same room? Doesn't this arrangement restrict the principles of IDIC? Would a sentient aquatic life form be prohibited from working as a bridge officer simply because the bridge is not filled with water?

 

[Anticitizen]

Also absurd is that personal combat weaponry in the 23rd and 24th century still consists of point-and-shoot weapons.

In TOS, there was a scene in which phasers were set to wide-dispersal stun and able to knock out an entire advancing crowd of aggressors. I don't think we ever saw that again. Would've been handy in, say, the Siege of AR-558.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Also absurd is that personal combat weaponry in the 23rd and 24th century still consists of point-and-shoot weapons.

In TOS, there was a scene in which phasers were set to wide-dispersal stun and able to knock out an entire advancing crowd of aggressors. I don't think we ever saw that again. Would've been handy in, say, the Siege of AR-558.

I think I recall in A Piece Of The Action, that they actually set the ships phaser banks on stun.

 

[Kaziarl]

Also absurd is that personal combat weaponry in the 23rd and 24th century still consists of point-and-shoot weapons.

In TOS, there was a scene in which phasers were set to wide-dispersal stun and able to knock out an entire advancing crowd of aggressors. I don't think we ever saw that again. Would've been handy in, say, the Siege of AR-558.

I think I recall in A Piece Of The Action, that they actually set the ships phaser banks on stun.

I thought that was a little silly honestly, considering the ships phasers are intended for ship to ship defense. But I guess they showed the usefulness of it in that episode.