Well yeah, but they are based on the universe that was invented earlier. It would be pretty jarring for them to have made a change like that
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yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoThere’s a lot of newer Trek shows that seem to have stayed away from smartphones too, though.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Look, this is a boring conversation right? I feel mildly gaslit, can we talk about anything else?
ivanvector@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
There’s not a whole lot of entertainment value in having a bunch of people sitting in silence texting other people off screen with the occasional loud video being played to nobody. Even if they are in space.
yakko@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Yeah, well it sucks in real life too
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ditto for AI. Oh, sure, they played with AI, but always in an embodied holodeck character or an android, never as a disembodied computer program. Imagine a show where every major decision point on the bridge was “do what the computer says.”