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I liked the futuristic flight controls before they went to warp. Decent episode, curious to see where it goes.
Star Trek: Picard
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Either he's got some kind of mobile emitter like the Doctor in Voyager, or more likely the ship is outfitted with holo-emitters everywhere so you can have your emergency hologram be everywhere he might be needed. Voyager's Doctor (even without the mobile emitter) could go anywhere there were holo-emitters to support his program.
Ah i see. Thanks.
I think it was commented on in a Voyager episode (after they got back in contact with the Federation), if not a major plot point of an episode that they were starting to test the ability for the EMH (or similar holograms) to go anywhere on new ships as standard to assist in emergencies.
With Picard set something like 20 years after the end of Voyager that's plenty of time for the idea and the technology to have advanced to being at least somewhat standard and for a small low crew/long endurance ship it would make a lot of sense as it means you can have a more advanced medic without having to tie up a crew slot with a dedicated medic, or a possibly custom outfitted ship intended to be run potentially by a single person it would be ideal.
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This many years into the future and having seen the benefit in voyager, it makes sense.
Romulan only AFAIK but they allow scientists from other races on board in a limited capacity.
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Wasn't it that ship that could split into 3, and the Dr stopped it being taken over?
Yup, the Prometheus.
That's the one.
I was never a great Voyager fan (it seemed a huge let down after DS9), but could remember that
It did occur to me that by the time of Picard hologram tech with that level of interaction had been around for at least 40 or so years in the ST timeline, as we know it was common enough to be fitted to the Galaxy Class ships, which means the tech had been around for around the same length of time as it took our mobile phones from being something you lug around in a briefcase to something that can be little larger than a matchbox, or a pack of cigarettes for a full on smartphone (whilst going from something that was so extremely expensive so only the rich or business people had one, to a device you see 5 year olds using).
The episode was "Message In A Bottle".
The hologram is basically an AI, so you don't have to be there to push the button. You have an AI crewmember (who uses no resources except power and processing time) who can do the work for you 24/7.
And with the holodeck type technology can utilise basically any tool the normal crew can, and when not needed it can power down so so it doesn't take up any space.
Which means that it's extremely versatile in that you don't need to have tools the crew can use, and tools that are fully automated in themselves, which is always one of the arguments for a human form robot, you can get better performance for single tasks via specialist forms, but for a general use robot you can't really beat something that can use all your existing equipment (if just because it means you don't need an extra version of every tool).
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I think he's talking about the ship piloting console vs a button interface, not the EMH/Navigator.
I'd argue that they'd use forcefields (like the EMH/Holodeck uses) to give tactile feedback, rather than just waving your hands in the air.
Still, it does seem like a fragile system and would probably have a physical backup.
But they still have regular controls which the holographics come from
Just seems like an excuse to have some CGI.
The good thing is being a projection they can't randomly explode in your face in a shower of sparks!
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Hope they stop the spin camera around, on discovery it was spinning from Spock's station to uhura, Scotty, sulu and chekov. Then in a meeting around a table camera in a circle pointing inwards.
Kill the director for doing that. And in the s2 finale it was spinning like warp speed.
Ffs
Kill the director for doing that. And in the s2 finale it was spinning like warp speed.
Ffs
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Also the cyborg what the hell, an interesting character and they told her story on the episode she dies.
With all that effort into makeup, why not tell back story in season one making a episode.for her.
When she died it's like so what, basically a red shirt.
With all that effort into makeup, why not tell back story in season one making a episode.for her.
When she died it's like so what, basically a red shirt.
Presumably the story continues on with her sister once she's "activated".