In The Original Series in the 60s, people had no idea what the future would look like or what technology would look like. In one of the early episodes, they had a paper print out machine on the bridge that looked like a fax machine, which was considered futuristic in the 1960s.
Like the example of the Enterprise fax machine, what technology or system do you think are we displaying in the current Star Trek shows that will show how dated we will become in the future?
The fax machine is forever. There’s a fax machine on the International Space Station.
Okay, I’m joking. But I bet you considered it for half a second, because fax machines have been that damn hard to get rid of.
I really doubt flying a spaceship will ever just be sitting in a bucket seat with a screen of touch controls
Yeah: It’ll be your brain in a jar (or just stored digitally) and you’ll just get a new body 3D printed when you arrive at your destination… After landing.
Having to voice commands to the computer. “Computer” will be part of the neural sync.
Also, typing anything or the use of buttons.
Direct-fire ship-to-ship weapons. Modern war is more and more about missiles, drones, etc. I think in the future the idea of ships coming near each-other and shooting directly will seem really old-fashioned, even if they are using space lasers.
Sexy robots will date us
We are all Tasha on this blessed day
Has anyone noticed the lack of trash cans in Star Trek? I guess they finally solved all the trash problems in the future…
It’s mentioned a few times, replicators can work “in reverse”. They’ll put in trash, dirty dishes, old clothes, whatever is no longer needed back in for the replicator to break back down into energy for later use
Side question…
What do they do with the occasional dead bodies? Do they ever bring that up? I’d think that if replicators can work “in reverse”, then they should also have their teleporters able to work similarly “in reverse”, but not actually teleport the bodies anywhere, but rather absorb the raw atoms, molecules, and energy…
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They do have a morgue on the Enterprise D, so presumably they just keep bodies there before they go through whatever death rituals the society has.
Single Use Padds:
My headcanon has been that many of those PADDs are 1-time use read only devices that can’t have the data copied, transferred, altered or deleted. When they’re done, they just get resynthesized. They could be for classified data, secure reports, and so on. If it’s just reading a couple duty shift reports, they are the small simple PADDs with scroll buttons. Intelligence reports on the sector, would have different levels of interactive bottoms on the sides. Potential prototype vessel upgrades, more space, more interactive features, and so on.
