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since the universal translator works by constantly scanning your brain all the time and figuring out what you mean to say and the comms system makes use of the computer's ftl shunt it literally reads the future to connect you to who you're calling by the time you say their name - so troi hears 'picard to troi' as he says it it's been theorised that the ui of the enterprise similarly makes use of cyberpsychic powers to give you a contextual interface where the thing you're thinking about is the button that you're about to press. so you're just pressing any button (the button you were always, predestined, going to press), to authorise the action. thats why they don't need readable labels, they're just for debugging purposes.
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ChogsEnhour posted:Hahha so why even have a screen at all? Why arent they all in green goo like the matirx? but then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKFMWhxJask&t=15s yeah that's a two button combo right from what appears to be a stock helm panel to bring up a track list for bouncy ball karaoke HMS Pinafore, with no intermediate menus at all so there's that.
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That's why the Borg have cube ships. Every way is up so they don't have to waste valuable energy to not look like shitheads. Then they developed the even more advanced Borg sphere, taking it to the logical extreme, perfection at any cost.
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my theory is on red alert every civilian area gets stasis fielded so they'd just like lose an hour, then the diurnal lighting continues from pre-alert so they'd never know, Clues-style thats why they do star dates, to hide all the missing time and blame it on time dilation
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