Watch The Exhilarating Opening Scene Of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3
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I just watched the opening sequence. Wow. That was amazing. The visuals in Discovery are absolutely stunning and are by far the best the franchise has ever seen (as should be expected, given the technological advances). It looks movie quality though. I really can’t wait for this now.
That's how I felt during season 1 and 2 every episode was filmed like it was a movie....... I love Discovery
Yeah, I think it’s spectacular.
I'm curious to see 1) where all that debris came from, and 2) what planet that's supposed to be.
Love the insect CHOMP
Love the insect CHOMP
One of my favorite more recent examples of technology passing Star Trek by is from Deep Space Nine. I can't rememeber the exact episode, but Jake is studying for something and has a pile of PADDs.
Now, PADDs are actually very similar in size/shape to modern-day tablets, which was actually somewhat predictive. But the episode implied they could only be filled with one book at a time, which is ridiculous. I know why it was done - as visual shorthand for books - but it makes the scene look tremendously dated around 25 years out.
IIRC there was also a Voyager episode where messages from home were loaded onto PADDs which then needed to be passed out manually...which implies they were not wi-fi capable. Again, looks riduclous, but they felt it was needed for story purposes.
Now, PADDs are actually very similar in size/shape to modern-day tablets, which was actually somewhat predictive. But the episode implied they could only be filled with one book at a time, which is ridiculous. I know why it was done - as visual shorthand for books - but it makes the scene look tremendously dated around 25 years out.
IIRC there was also a Voyager episode where messages from home were loaded onto PADDs which then needed to be passed out manually...which implies they were not wi-fi capable. Again, looks riduclous, but they felt it was needed for story purposes.
I noticed that with Trek too. They predicted tablets alright, but they’re considerably less advanced than iPads and whatnot by virtue of the fact they don’t have WiFi. Doh! The internet was already a thing back then, so they clearly didn’t join the dots on that one. Ultimately, each Trek is a product of its time though and it’s foolish to pretend otherwise.
“Insurrection” saw Picard’s desk covered in mismatched PADDs as a visual metaphor for his weariness of getting buried in paperwork.
I personally have two tablets of different sizes, laptop, desktop, phone, and I also now have my work laptop plus three screens. ALL in my home office at times, and scattered around the house at others. Some things DO carry forward!
Mark
I personally have two tablets of different sizes, laptop, desktop, phone, and I also now have my work laptop plus three screens. ALL in my home office at times, and scattered around the house at others. Some things DO carry forward!
Mark
“Insurrection” saw Picard’s desk covered in mismatched PADDs as a visual metaphor for his weariness of getting buried in paperwork.
I personally have two tablets of different sizes, laptop, desktop, phone, and I also now have my work laptop plus three screens. ALL in my home office at times, and scattered around the house at others. Some things DO carry forward!
Mark
Right now, in the house we have:
- My phone
- My wife's phone
- My daugther's phone (she finally got one this year)
- My tablet
- My wife's tablet
- An old tablet of mine the kids use to play games/watch movies
- An old hand-me-down Ipad the kids use for the same reason as immediately above.
- A school-issued Ipad for my son used exclusively for online learning
But the takeaway from this is for me is that its by their own design. Supposedly technology in this time has the capacity for one optical memory chip to contain terrabytes or more information so if that's the kind of memory technology they use on PADDS and other devices like that there should be no valid reason to have more then one or two of the things at the most, not piles of them. It is done more for story and drama purpose than it is for practical reasons inside the story given the amount of tech they have.
She ultimately found the show uninteresting, with lethargic pacing.
Well it's not for everyone I guess ...... Everyone is different and that's a good thing.
I'm guessing 'The Burn" didn't happen that long ago, though I could be wrong.
Two data points to support this:
- We know knowledge of the Federation is still widespread, even if the Federation is (mostly) fallen.
- We see lots of people from identifiable races in the trailers in mixed-species groups (Trill, Andorians, Humans, Cardassians, etc). Given the crazy-ass way interbreeding works in Trek, a few centuries with every colony isolated should result in a unique multiracial mix on every planet.
I hate to burst peoples' bubbles, but legal tablet computers existed in skiffy before TNG.
Cool.
If you had internet in 87-94 you were ahead of the curve.
I was thinking it might just be the cat. Maybe cats are rare in the 32nd century or something and people will pay big bucks to have one.
The PADDs were probably locked so only the recipients can read them, and handing them out and receiving them by hand underlined the personal nature and importance of finally getting them
They do have WiFi, otherwise Paris couldn't have loaded Gray's Anatomy to one for Kim to study when their replacement EMH didn't work
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