We learn television died out in the episode The Neutral Zone and I've always liked to think of that as more first season TNG clap-trap from Roddenberry that is best left forgotten. It really is kind of a lame over-used joke doing a television show where you put down the concept of television. I really find it hard to believe that people decided the instantaneous transmission of sound and images from anywhere else was something they didn't want anymore. I've always kind of thought that was one weakness of Star Trek. Because it focuses on the Star Fleet aspect of the 24th century we actually learn very little about the culture of 24th century Earth. What sports are popular? What movies are popular? What is it that binds the world together culturally? In fact judging from TNG Earth decided to stop creating any culture and just read Shakespeare all the time. In that dreadful Voyager episode with the doctor singing opera and the midgets Janeway talks about celebrities as if they are still a thing of the present. I was curious exactly who would she be talking about in the 24th century as a celebrity.
The Internet and Television in the 24th Century
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*Bows* Thank you! I'm glad we agree on that!
As an aside, I'm working on a fanfic right now for the cliffhanger assignment, and a better part of it deals with my protagonist walking through Vancouver and taking a civilian passenger liner to Spacedock. So maybe give it a read and tell me what you think of my version of Federation/Civilian life... whenever I post it.
Oh yeah! Sluggo! I forgot about that. "Drink Slug-o-Cola! The slimiest cola in the galaxy!"
We've seen visual media before... such as speech's broadcast from the Dominion, we just haven't seen how it's presented/distributed. Unless all the readouts on DS9's promenade were news feeds?
I'd imagine something like a merger between the news channels and the internet. You can get the news any way you want it, any time you feel like it. You could maybe even get books, games etc all from the one source.
I'd imagine something like a merger between the news channels and the internet. You can get the news any way you want it, any time you feel like it. You could maybe even get books, games etc all from the one source.
I choose to think that when Data was describing television, he meant traditional broadcast television as a standalone, ad-based method of media distribution. I can't believe that there wouldn't still be an appetite for news and entertainment and information in a moving visual format, even if it was just user generated content and the various news services.
