Would the bridge funtions of old ships seen in TNG like the Hathaway

[WildManWizard]

and Jenolan really be that much different than the LCARS terminals of the Enterprise? Meaning without holographic or other fancy interfaces, i cant see why folks like worf would find the Hathaway's bridge so un-useful when despite some limitations in sensor effectiveness and phaser strength, a button and a readout is still a button and a readout no matter how you lay them out?

 

[Timo]

Well, if you can not merely reposition a button at a whim but also give it a new functionality at a whim, you probably get used to that, and will find it intolerable to work with an interface you can't customize.

Although I trust the TOS rows of buttons were also completely customizable, which is why they appear to be such nonsensical generic clusterfucks of color: when Scotty drops his keycard in the console, the buttons all change colors and labels and become the ideal engine control interface, but when Uhura does, it all changes into a communications interface (also distinct from Palmer's, who prefers to have the PA lines grouped by deck while Uhura wants them by duty shifts and departments).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Finn]

What about Kirk's chair button?

 

[Timo]

Utterly reconfigurable, of course. How did you think he orders his hot steaming yeoman, uh, cup of coffee?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

It just looks like an older operating system to me.

Imagine using Windows 95 again.

 

[Lance]

What about Kirk's chair button?

It's a pretty exclusive club, the people who get to play with Kirk's button. Spock, Scotty, DeSaulle, Decker, Stocker, Leslie and Sulu, oh my!!!!

 

[Qonundrum]

Worf was whining only because he liked pushing people's buttons...

 

[Qonundrum]

It just looks like an older operating system to me.

Imagine using Windows 95 again.

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