Today there are a lot more people in the TV business who are contributing to what starship technology should look like and how it should work, not to mention just a TON more sci fi TV shows in general. Back in the 60s only a very limited number of people were coming up with what they thought were "good" starship designs, and those people were mostly television experts, not science or technology experts. More importantly is the overall number of people involved in making shows now. And not just information technology, but science itself has advanced, and some of the things that were fantastic in the 60s are dramatically less fantastic now, or at least more plausible, with a more nuanced understanding of how they might work, which translates into the writing.
That very revolution of technology was underway when TNG and all the subsequent Trek shows were out. In the 60s we were still industrialist and didn't have very much good insight into exactly how information technology was going to change everything. This largely has to do with where we are right now in technological development as a society. Why not just beam armed photon torpedoes to 3 places on the ship simultaneously? One good example I've seen pointed out is ships firing on other ships when their shields are down. Of course, storytelling plays a part too, and obvious things ignored for the sake of a plot. You'd say, "Fuck that, no way".Īnd since Trek is supposed to be in an era of more enlightened ethics, one might suppose that there would be a lot of things that they could do, but they don't because it's unethical. When someone collapses in their quarters, why do they have to be "found"? Why doesn't the ship detect it and beam them straight to sick bay?īut then imagine that technology existed today and your employer said that you would be monitored constantly while in the building and your employer alerted if you left. So you think, hang on - surely it can do that for everyone on board, constantly? One good example is that in episodes they ask the computer to keep a constant monitor on a person and alert if anything happens to them. There's a lot of stuff that can be retconned.
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