Original bridge screen graphics lost?

[Locutus of Bored]

And Discovery: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" mentions "pulse scope rifles," which I assume are pulse rifles with an aiming scope on them, but that's an odd way of putting it.

Hunters and gun enthusiasts will rarely (and informally) use the term "scope rifle(s)" to refer to a rifle where a scope is traditionally used (though nowadays you can find a scope being used on many, if not most rifles), like a hunting rifle, target shooting rifle, or a sniper rifle, though "scoped rifle" is more common. It's not a very common term, though it has seeped its way into militaristic scifi a bit, which is what I presume Discovery was trying to sound like when using that term.

 

[publiusr]

"Beyond the Farthest Star"

https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/101-BR/beyondthefartheststarhd0301.jpg
https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=41&page=17

I like to think it is a new type CRT with better colors---you could use light pens on those.

 

[Mytran]

FWIW, here's how Matt Jefferies differentiated the different areas on a typical Bridge console:

• SCREENS (the large overhead displays)
• INSTRUMENTS (the mid-level arrays of blinking lights)
• CONTROL PANELS (the buttons)

 

[Neopeius]

Look, man, let's just compromise.

"Scropes."

 

[ZapBrannigan]

• SCREENS (the large overhead displays)
• INSTRUMENTS (the mid-level arrays of blinking lights)
• CONTROL PANELS (the buttons)

I get it: Matt Jefferies was a pilot, and he thought of the blinking panels as the "instruments" because that is what they'd be called in an airplane cockpit.

 

[F. King Daniel]

So we're officially at "the original designer was wrong" stage?

 

[blssdwlf]

"Instruments" doesn't preclude using a multifunction display to show gauges, dials and lights to monitor ship's systems. The TOS bridge "instruments" look more like displays and less like old-school gauges, dials and lights, IMHO.

 

[Neopeius]

By the way, I was wrong -- "display", by itself, was in common use in the 60s. I just saw a show by Fairchild about Integrated Circuits where they used it (made in '67).

 

[CorporalCaptain]

As a kid, I always wanted to see what was going on in Spock's hooded viewer. But the whole reason for having a hooded viewer was to spare the need for data graphics, which were a heavier lift in the Sixties.

Then came TAS, and I think there was a time or two when they had an insert shot for Spock's viewer. And that's when you realize there is nothing that viewer could show that couldn't be displayed on an open monitor. [I hope someone recalls a specific example so I can see it at TrekCore.]

The only real-world justification for the hood would be if it's an instrument only one person at a time can see, in the manner of a periscope, but in Star Trek's case, more like a dim 3D hologram that has to be shaded from ambient light. For in-universe plausibility, that's our last hope.

"Beyond the Farthest Star"

https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/101-BR/beyondthefartheststarhd0301.jpg
https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=41&page=17

Just a follow-up to this sidebar.

There is at least one example in TOS when it is strongly implied (with a couple of caveats) that Spock's hooded viewer at least can certainly display images that can be displayed on an open monitor.

It's in "The Changeling", when Nomad is beamed into space. Kirk and Spock watch the explosion from the hooded viewer in the transporter room.

The viewer emits the same blue light that Spock's does on the bridge, it has the same shape, and it has the same function. So, conclusions about one should (i.e., would be expected to) apply to the other; caveat #1 is of course that they may not.

After Kirk and Spock peer into the viewer, we cut away to see the scene of the explosion in space. But then we see Kirk and Spock looking away as if they were averting their eyes from the bright explosion. (It must have been a very bright explosion to overload the safety filters like that. ) So, no proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that the viewer was showing the scene, and that's caveat #2, but given the looking away I think we are supposed to conclude that it was.

https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x03hd/thechangelinghd1365.jpg
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/2x03hd/thechangelinghd1368.jpg

 

[Neopeius]

(It must have been a very bright explosion to overload the safety filters like that. )

The viewscreen polarizers are scheduled to be installed the same week as seatbelts and competent security guards.

 

[blssdwlf]

The viewscreen polarizers are scheduled to be installed the same week as seatbelts and competent security guards.

LOL. I'd argue that the safety filters were working fine as they were not permanently blinded. More likely someone did not dial down the max brightness value.

 

[Neopeius]

LOL. I'd argue that the safety filters were working fine as they were not permanently blinded. More likely someone did not dial down the max brightness value.

They work like the inertial dampers -- always not quite well enough.

 

[publiusr]

And having Spock’s monitor hooded kept its contents from being revealed on viewscreens of other ships…for naval vessels, to reduce glare.