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SNW truly respects TOS continuity!

They've got touchscreen panels elsewhere on the ship... even though touchscreens are a dated technology from the late 20th century.

I have my issues with the SNW Enterprise (which I never shut up about), but I like the idea that the designers in-universe have intentionally gone for a 60s-70s look to the ship. Their technology has reached the point that they can make the interior look like whatever they want, and they've apparently decided that for this device a row of switches works just fine. I can buy it!
 
A closeup of the TOS-style desk commpanels in SNW.

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Eight Toggle Switches means 256 permutations.

Probably more than enough to cover a simple communication device within a ship.
 
ENT had a combination of bulky switches, toggles, buttons and slide levers with a couple of random touchscreens here and there. DSC and SNW have a mixture of both big physical controls and touchscreens. TOS swerved almost entirely back to buttons, switches and toggles and that lasts until around Star Trek IV, after which Trek becomes almost exclusively flat surface touchscreen controls for well over a century.
 
DSC consoles did (and I think still do) have physical switches off to the sides, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone use them.
 
Can we just stop with the ridiculous notion that these two images look nothing alike? I mean..... seriously. To 99% of the population, the difference is negligible. To say it looks NOTHING like the TOS version is just being incredibly petty.
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Might be easier to compare if the CG model was lit like the physical one was
 
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