One Trek thing that always bothers me...

[T'Baio]

I HATE it when they're looking at a viewscreen or a visual recording of something, and it's the same view we as the viewer got. Even though the view is an angle or shot that couldn't conceivably have been recorded unless the universe has millions of cameras floating through space, and every wall, ceiling and floor has cameras that always take a perfect recording of everything that happens from the exact angle that is always needed.

Man...that bugs me. I can handle transporters or warp or all aliens looking humanoid, but THAT really bugs me.

 

[DeafPoet]

It is kind of irksome, but IIRC, it only ever happened on TOS so I forgive it because of the budget and simpler times.

 

[jamestyler]

I HATE it when they're looking at a viewscreen or a visual recording of something, and it's the same view we as the viewer got. Even though the view is an angle or shot that couldn't conceivably have been recorded unless the universe has millions of cameras floating through space, and every wall, ceiling and floor has cameras that always take a perfect recording of everything that happens from the exact angle that is always needed.

Using sensors to view objects could conceivably give them any image they wanted, really. I can't recall any time when I've thought it was too odd, though (unless it was TOS which I can barely recall).

 

[StolenThunder]

That made me smile the other day. I was watching Wink of an Eye which makes rather egregious use of earlier shots.

I can rationalise it - sensors should be able to reconstruct the scene I suppose - but it does jar.

 

[Finn]

Viewscreen dialogue between two ship commanders are usually ok for me, since they use sensors instead of cameras. But I hated how that "tape" Picard had Riker watch when he first came onboard in Encounter at Farpoint. It was basically a clipshow of what we saw...

 

[Ethros]

Good example- http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x16/galaxyschild188.jpg

How the hell is that possible?
Unless there's some big camera arm that pretudes out of one of the nacelles

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

holo-imaging converted into 2D

 

[Golliwog]

Er Er...

Has everyone forgot.. images of 1701 destruction being shown to the federation council in ST4...

same view as in viewer had in ST3..

 

[22 Stars]

^ footage from the Klingon Bird of Prey?

 

[Timo]

..the universe has millions of cameras floating through space, and every wall, ceiling and floor has cameras that always take a perfect recording of everything that happens from the exact angle that is always needed.

Man...that bugs me.

You consider that a bug?! I would consider it a very desirable feature indeed!

And it appears completely plausible to me. After all, when did we ever see a lens in Star Trek? Optics are probably long out of fashion, replaced by 3D sensing systems that can create an image of the target from any desired angle or distance. Lens systems are only found in archaic recording devices favored for personal use, such as the cameras Scotty installed for recording the Tomlinson/Martine wedding - the equivalent of having an oil painter present at your big event today. That, and in cheap handheld miniature systems that cannot accommodate the modern sensor gear.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[jgdst]

Viewscreen dialogue between two ship commanders are usually ok for me, since they use sensors instead of cameras. But I hated how that "tape" Picard had Riker watch when he first came onboard in Encounter at Farpoint. It was basically a clipshow of what we saw...

lol! Having a clip show halfway through the pilot is never a good sign... Still, it seems the series picked up after that

It's not quite the same thing that bugs me, but when the captain is talking over the viewscreen, and the camera cuts away, when it goes back to the viewscreen, the angle of the person talking is completely different, like it's zoomed in on them while you weren't looking. Cut away and back again, and it's gone back to the wide angle

I can accept the camera moving around to follow them when they're walking - we have motion sensors and face recognition even now (and there's a description of how it's done in The Left Hand of Destiny novels). But to do dramatic close-ups of its own accord? No. NO.

NO!

 

[SonicRanger]

Well, viewscreens can also do this:

Head-on: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s3/3x07/theenemy245.jpg
Side-view: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s3/3x07/theenemy254.jpg

We can see the side of Tomalak's face, like he is there in three dimensions, not just a two-dimensional image on the viewscreen surface.

For that two happen, not only does the viewscreen have to be a three-dimensional hologram, the Romulan ship needs to be sending a three-d image to the Enterprise. And do you really want your enemy to have that much of a view of your bridge?

 

[jgdst]

^ GAH! That's some scary massive headed three dimensional HD stuff right there!

Do you think Geordi and co look as big to Tomalak as his head does to the Enterprise crew?

I mean, how much closer to they want to get?