Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

Steven L. wrote:
> Anybody wrote:
>> In article <13p4up5p3dmsaec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Steven L."
>> <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>

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>
> Well, like we've already been discussing, Star Trek vastly
> underestimated what automation would be capable of in the future. Even 
> 1966-era Boeing 707 airliners had autopilots.  Today's
> autopilots, just 40 years later, can handle complex courses with
> multiple waypoints, and can even land the plane by themselves.  The
> autopilots in today's supertankers can steer the ship by themselves
> similarly.
> In fact, you got to see the NCC-1701 on "autopilot" just once--in "The
> Menagerie," when Spock fed a course into the ship's computers and the
> computers steered the ship.
>

I'd say 'The Ultimate Computer'  and 'I Mudd' also qualify as examples.
Maybe even 'Day of the Dove'.


> Putting 430 crewmen on the NCC-1701 with minimal automation was a
> matter of dramatic license rather than error--put a big crew into
> space to have the flexibility for lots of drama.  The most egregious
> example was in ST II: TWOK, where the crew pulled up the gratings
> manually to load the photon torpedoes.

That was ugly...

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