After all, how often is a ship on a five-year deep space exploration mission going to have access to repair facilities if something goes catastrophically wrong? Better to have buttons than touchscreens when survival may depend on it.
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That's practically canon isn't it? Doesn't Pike have a throw-away line about how the Enterprise "will never have holographic technology again" because of how irritating it is?
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it explains why there aren't holo interfaces, but not why there are buttons and dials
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The Battlestar Galactica theory. Makes sense.
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This is how I’ve always thought of it. I know it’s not really a “plot hole to fix” but in my brain I like every tiny detail to make sense, just for fun
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My headcanon for Trek is somewhat similar to my headcanon for Alien - the ship is designed for long duration deep space deployment, which means rugged-ass if-an-AK-47-were-a-computer engineering. It's a different problem space than what most modern tech is designed for.
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Imo my head canon is that once you live in a cosmic utopia long enough you get bored and revisit some of the styles of the past. It’s clunky and maybe not cutting edge, but it’s fun.
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They did the same thing with Star Wars. Clearly that was a mission of the prequels, but it was hilarious seeing all this really cool tech sort of fade to 70s era vacu-form and motorcycle chin-strap helmets.
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I don't remember if it was one of the novels (Tears of the Singers, maybe?) or an actual episode, but Uhura explicitly said that her console was the way it was so she could rebuild it from scratch if need be.
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