When I watched this, I assumed they meant printing on the screens rather than audio.
But I would love to have a bunch of dot matrix printers all around the super futuristic ship printing out immutable action logs
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Only if printing technology has changed by then. Otherwise you'd just be getting 100 notifications that your subscription to HP Ink has expired and it can't print until you renew...
Atten Crew:
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Come to Quarks
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Quarks is fun
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Don't walk, run!
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Bring this printout for 10% off your first drink
Enter to win a talking beverage mug!
I imagine this not like a talking mug we might have today, with a battery and a prerecorded message, but instead an almost sentient creepy face like that bajorans treasure chest of horrors.
You mean Badgey the Mug?
... I want this now. So badly.
Dot matrix printers don't do that.
They totally would if HP still made them!
Meanwhile, in Voyager at Ensign Harry Kim's quarters during their final approach to Earth:
It would kind of fit in with their sort of "futuristic yet not exactly" aesthetic.
Yes thank you ensign for writing that report up on your tablet computer, now because email apparently doesn't exist anymore you'll have to physically leave the tablet with me and go get a new one.
Fun fact, TNG basically introduced the very concept of tablets.
2001 A Space Odyssey had a tablet they used to watch TV.
Killing email is a honestly a greater feat than achieving communism. I salute the federation
I know that this is a lighthearted place, but why do you think so? E-Mail is one of the most democratic and equity promoting forms of communication there is through its decentralisation and open standardisation. It would be the very kind of thing the Federation would want to preserve or introduce itself.
Nobody likes email. I prefer the modern fediverse.
Email is incredibly insecure. There can be no expectation of veracity or privacy within an email. The core of Email protocols were made when the Internet was a much more secret club.
It's so funny when they go on board a shuttle and have a bag full of datapads with them because somehow it's one book per pad.
How does one prepare for maximum acceleration on the Enterprise? Put on their seatbelt, no wait LOL
It's just for theatrics. Inertial dampers practically negate any notion of movement.
Ex: TNG S4E3 "Brothers": Data commandeers the Enterprise in response to Soong's homing circuit. Due to the lockouts, Riker mentions that "The only way we knew we'd come out of warp was by looking out a window."
Except they break like Holodeck safety protocols
“ah, buckle this…. Ludicrous speed, go!”
Is this why the children are always doing stuff like sculpting with sharp tools?
RED ALERT: .... WE'RE OUT OF CYAN!!!!!!!
I'd assume the printouts to be produced by the replicators.
They replicate a dot matrix printer which prints the message.
I laughed so hard omg 🤣
It's the fax machines from Back to the Future II.
YOU'RE
FIRED
Edit: I got sniped.
Take my upvote, anyways, you're a treasure who remembers the eighties
PC load letter?
After that first time, everyone would jump to check printers.
Every time that dot matrix sound started everyone's butt would clench.
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