Things You Didn't Notice In Star Trek Until Years Later
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I never noticed the Vulcan vestals and their funny gestures until late... in TSFS.
The first time I saw her in an interview she looked different and sounded very different; For a moment I wondered if it was the actress who played Deanna or a lookalike.
When I first saw First Contact on TV I thought they had recast the part or that she was a different character
For years, I didn't realize some fans didn't notice Deanna's eyes. I thought the eyes were obvious.
For years, I didn't realize some fans didn't notice Deanna's eyes. I thought the eyes were obvious.
Maybe less obvious on an old, low-resolution TV? That's my excuse.
I never noticed that the betazoid were supposed to have only one color of eyes until I saw it mentioned in a thread somewhere.
I never noticed this and now I need to see Picard's mouse.
^ It's a white block, set into the middle of the console, directly below the screen.
I suspect that if there are still people in the 24th century we'll only use keyboards exceptionally. The interface with the computer will be part verbal, part pointing at holo-icons, part even mental, it' possible to have a mental interface even now, although I guess that in the future it will be so sophisticated that you'll give orders to the computer without making a conscious effort. it will be like giving an order to your hand to take an object.
IIRC, he pushed that thing like a button to scroll down once
In the episode "Dark Page" Picard uses that white inset piece on the desktop console in Trois quarters like a touchpad and he swipes over it to scroll through Lwaxana Trois journal entries. I think that's the only time we see that part of a desktp console used as something different than a big button. But in "Dark Page" it is a close-up shot of the console and Picard's hand so I think it was intended to show that it has touchpad functionality.
(Mid-1993 that was forward-looking as laptops with touchpads would be released not before a year later and mouses with scroll wheels even some years later. But of course laptops with trackballs existed already in 1993 so doing such gestures at that part of a laptop was nothing special.)
There's an episode where Guinan activates something on a control pad and she visibly doesn't touch the pad!
That goes all the way back to "The Cage", when Spock does the same thing on the Enterprise. He works his computer controls by waving at them.
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