In another scene, Geordi needs to extract important information from the beagle that a devious Romulan put there. He waves his blinky light
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In that scene, on mute: he waves his blinky screwdriver. He gets angry. Waves it again, then smiles. He did it! He downloaded from the dog!
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Unmuted: Geordi explains he needs to scan the dog's prions for subspace signatures matching the encryption key found on a Romulan's nose
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Maybe in another scene that beagle needs to be turned into a bomb. Or analyzed to see if it is actually Picard. Or whatever.
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In each case that blinky screwdriver comes out, and in each case no engineering takes place if you mute it.
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In each case, all engineering looks exactly alike. The only difference is the magic spell used.
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Compare it to Harry Potter on mute. No matter what spell Hermione uses, it involves waving a wand.
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Only when unmuted can you tell that Hermione is doing this spell instead of that. Which makes sense: she's using magic, for fuck's sake.
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This is a weird complaint. IRL you can't tell the difference between two different smartphone apps if you can't see the screen
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AFAICT what you're saying is TOS took their futuristic UIs to the maximum degree of abstraction acceptable to viewers
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And TNG failed to go further than that, bc if they had the TV show would've become unwatchable as a TV show
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Sure it would've made sense if the whole ship were controlled directly by neural feedback mechanisms but you can't film that
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It would've made sense if there were no physical "gun" and the phaser was a cloud of nanites that deconstructed shit at will
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