TVH - Scotty and the computer

[Nerys Myk]

And some of those tech manuals were for 20th Century computers.

 

[Elder Knight]

Perhaps some Third World (Third Universe?) planets were still using Windows 3.1 in the Star trek era.

 

[rmkwebdesign]

The only thing I found strange is that after Gillian orders a large pizza, Kirk orders ANOTHER one! With all those onions, little chance of the Shat getting any make out action that night.

That was meant to show his unfamiliarity with the times. I guess there's no pizza in our future.

I don't want to live in that future!!!!!!

 

[cardinal biggles]

Pizza I can live without. But if you tell me we won't still have Chinese food in the future, I'm not interested in seeing it come to pass. (I guess in this way, Firefly is a "positive vision of the future." )

 

[Kegek]

There's no pizza in the future?

I guess it's true: Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek was a dystopia in disguise...

 

[A beaker full of death]

Pizza I can live without. But if you tell me we won't still have Chinese food in the future

I'm in Southern California now, and they don't have any here! They think they do, but they're wrong.

 

[Ronald Held]

No Pizza in the food synthesizer? what kind of a future is that for a Starfleet officer?

 

[cultcross]

Maybe its just that through centuries of 'special deals' a 'large' pizza in the future represents one only 3" across. Kirk didn't realise Gillian was actually ordering a Galactic size.

 

[Sector 7]

When I was a kid people laughed at the idea of cooking a meal or tv dinner in a couple of minutes. Miracle of modern science we now take our microwaves for granted.
The Motorola StarTac phone was directly patterned after the StarTrek communicator...
Which came first? the chicken or the egg? ;-)
All that is fine, but a future without pizza is no future at all!

 

[Peach Wookiee]

No pizza? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

 

[Ronald Held]

I must agree with that intent, Peach Wookiee.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Thank you, Ronald! ^^

 

[Ronald Held]

You are welcome.

 

[Zeppster]

ST IV has a lot of comic bits that aren't meant to really think about. Like a Russian in 1986 looking for a "Nuclear Wessell"

 

[Captain59]

Before I get attacked, I know books are not canon! However, Vonda McIntyre states in the Star Trek IV novel that it took Scotty 30 minutes to do what he did on the Apple computer. Also, when Kirk orders the same thing as Gillian, Gillian interjects that Kirk meant the same beverage, and not another pizza.

I usually don't like Vonda's explanation of things--and I hate when she changes things like "colorful metaphor" to colorful idioms"--but I thought these two were good for clarification.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Before I get attacked, I know books are not canon! However, Vonda McIntyre states in the Star Trek IV novel that it took Scotty 30 minutes to do what he did on the Apple computer. Also, when Kirk orders the same thing as Gillian, Gillian interjects that Kirk meant the same beverage, and not another pizza.

I usually don't like Vonda's explanation of things--and I hate when she changes things like "colorful metaphor" to colorful idioms"--but I thought these two were good for clarification.

She was way out of step with that novel - like her idea that the garbageman wasn't relating an argument he had had with his wife, but was rather making up a story for the entertainment of the other garbageman. She obviously didn't like the script and took a patronizing attitude toward the material.

 

[Nebusj]

Before I get attacked, I know books are not canon! However, Vonda McIntyre states in the Star Trek IV novel that it took Scotty 30 minutes to do what he did on the Apple computer. Also, when Kirk orders the same thing as Gillian, Gillian interjects that Kirk meant the same beverage, and not another pizza.

I have to wonder what the average Italian restaurant waiter would make of an order, ``A large mushroom and pepperoni with extra onions, and a Michelob'', followed by, ``Make that two''. He seems to have decided to serve one pizza with two beers, which seems like the logical way to interpret that order.

 

[Amaris]

Before I get attacked, I know books are not canon! However, Vonda McIntyre states in the Star Trek IV novel that it took Scotty 30 minutes to do what he did on the Apple computer. Also, when Kirk orders the same thing as Gillian, Gillian interjects that Kirk meant the same beverage, and not another pizza.

I have to wonder what the average Italian restaurant waiter would make of an order, ``A large mushroom and pepperoni with extra onions, and a Michelob'', followed by, ``Make that two''. He seems to have decided to serve one pizza with two beers, which seems like the logical way to interpret that order.

Yep. That's how I would have taken it.


J.

 

[Elder Knight]

I'm sure that I could draft a readable document with MS Word 2.0, which is about 20 years old. In fact, I have done so. I suspect that you could too. For all that we gripe about microsoft Windows, it has standardized a lot of things. [Alt]+[F] will still/then get you the File menu, and [Alt]+ will save your work.