Musings: Star Trek--yeah...
During the whole course of the various Star Trek series and their episodes, you never (mercifully) had anyone tap their communicator and ask "Computer, what is the location of Commander LaForge?" and get the reply, "Commander LaForge is in the bathroom."
More because Star Trek was hundreds of years in the future than because it's only 10-15 years since we witnessed the surveillance technology of La Femme Nikita (1997) or Patriot Games (1992), you have to wonder why they didn't have better technology for viewing the location of their compatriots. I mean, Federation ships can detect life signs and transport life forms from planetary orbit, while handheld tricorders can discern any species and metabolism in the vicinity. Why couldn't they view a miniature floor plan of Commander Riker's quarters with a superimposed infrared image of all life forms therein--most likely, one chasing or bouncing animatedly atop another?
posted by Twerpette @ 11:33 AM
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But don't you think they would have had some kind of privacy function that the computer would recognize? Like a delay call to LaForge until the toilet flushed? Or maybe they eradicated the need all together...They did away with kitchens! I've seen it where they call "come" when someone would come to their door, and then at other times they would actually get up and go to the door to let someone in. (a type of locking function?)
And, as for Number One, although the thought of animated figures being presented doing the horizontal bop caused me quite a giggle...Well, I am sure that would fall under the same premise. Unless they want to rename the show Star Trek - Making Another Generation!
The miniature floor plan sounds like the Marauder's Map from Harry Potter.
Quite fascinating though, I must say...
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