The TOS desktop monitors were really advanced tech!

[Mysterion]

Or then there was a lady at a switchboard, doing nothing but answering hails, gossiping, and receiving dismal pay...

Ok, if it hasn't already been done someone needs to do a photoshop of Lilly Tomlin's "Ernestine" character sitting at Uhura's station on the bridge...

 

[uniderth]

Or then there was a lady at a switchboard, doing nothing but answering hails, gossiping, and receiving dismal pay...

That sounds like something out of the Gold Key Star Trek comics.