Where did all the future tech come from?

[marsh8472]

I noticed that tech technology shown in the Star Trek Discovery appears vastly superior to the technology shown in the original series. Like the interfaces and communication devices are holographic projections, environmental suits have fancy displays in them, warp drives appear faster, shuttles look better, consoles look like post TNG consoles. How did all of this happen? I suspect it had something to do with the temporal cold war and the future sharing technology with the past or perhaps Q later takes their technology away because the Q thinks humanity is advancing too quickly?

 

[Awesome Possum]

Because the real world had the misfortune to advance 50 years and the things that impressed people then looks laughable now when depicted as futuristic. My iPad looks better than any computer on TOS.

 

[Michael]

You can never have enough threads on this very subject.

 

[Tuskin38]

I noticed that tech technology shown in the Star Trek Discovery appears vastly superior to the technology shown in the original series. Like the interfaces and communication devices are holographic projections, environmental suits have fancy displays in them, warp drives appear faster, shuttles look better, consoles look like post TNG consoles. How did all of this happen? I suspect it had something to do with the temporal cold war and the future sharing technology with the past or perhaps Q later takes their technology away because the Q thinks humanity is advancing too quickly?

Because it is the 21st century and people wouldn't find TOS' tech believable anymore.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

As others have said, its 2017 and trek of 2256 should reflect that and not be less advance.

 

[marsh8472]

The transporter device works faster too. It's supposed to look like this but the uniforms don't match up either. Will the enterprise bridge look like this when they encounter it?

 

[Tuskin38]

Yeah the only gripe I have are the uniforms, it isn't that hard to update them.

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I think that the look of the tech is very, utility, not very neat or clean like you may see further into the future, though I would like there to be some more limitations on it's use, that's just an aesthetic thing really.

 

[Vger23]

It was because Picard created an anti-time pocket when he converged the 3 beams from the deflector arrays in different time periods, after Picard altered the past by letting Lilly Sloan see all the 24th century stuff and Scotty altered the past by giving Professor Nichols the formula for transparent aluminum.

And the Temporal Cold War

And Daniels

And other stuff....because it doesn't matter really.

 

[Kane_Steel]

NX-01 Enterprise had a great bridge set with buttons that managed to look modern, yet still true to TOS. There was no reason for them to go full JJ Reboot with the Disocvery tech, aside from the CBS President wanting it.

Stuff like the walking holograms and whatnot, were just unnecessary. But maybe it will pull in the Star Wars audience.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Ikea. That's why they're having trouble putting it together correctly.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Just repeat to yourself, "it's just a show, I really should relax".

 

[Tuskin38]

full JJ Reboot with the Disocvery tech

I'd say the Discovery tech is less advanced. They're still using physical buttons.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I actually felt Discovery has a nice blend of TOS and what we consider futuristic. The transporter even has the slider thing, it's on a touch screen but it was a nice touch.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

NX-01 Enterprise had a great bridge set with buttons that managed to look modern, yet still true to TOS. There was no reason for them to go full JJ Reboot with the Disocvery tech,

Its not JJ at all, the art style and tech is not the same.

 

[Awesome Possum]

The Discovery looks a lot more like the NX-01 bridge than the Kelvinverse Enterprise.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The "future tech" came from the imaginations of people living in 2017.

 

[marsh8472]

 

[Spider]

That shit looked futuristic to me as a teenager in the 60s, Discovery looks futuristic today, what's the freaking difference?

I should really listen to the awesome phalangeriforme's wisdom and not post in this thread, lest I become part of the problem.

 

[Chekov's Phaser]

Because the real world had the misfortune to advance 50 years and the things that impressed people then looks laughable now when depicted as futuristic. My iPad looks better than any computer on TOS.

This is always the most logical response to every one of these threads, yet it's always overlooked by the OP as if it isn't.