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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    Weirdly shaped starships.

    • Why wouldn’t they be mass-symmetrical around the propulsion?
    • why are some vertically oriented? Are these people constantly using elevators?
    • what’s with this saucer on a sausage thing ? There’s a lot of inefficiencies in building, maintaining, and using the ship.
    • If there is ever a time when a Starship can fly in an atmosphere, there’s going to have to consider aerodynamics
    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Where do you think they would put a bowling alley for those long extended away missions that last for months?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Around the edge of the saucer. They have gravity control, so there’s no reason why the same direction needs to be down or why a curved surface can’t be “flat” (neither uphill nor downhill)

    • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      If I remember correctly the original designer’s ideas were that the nacelles were meant to be dangerous to be around, so they had to be separated from crewed areas, the saucer section was supposed to be a habitable life-boat in case of emergency, and the lower body was for mass storage, cargo, and main engineering. But over time startship design has ignored most of these concerns. In-universe I guess you could say nacelles got better shielding, replicators got better, so there was less need for space for non-reconstitutible cargo.