10th September 2011, 7:28 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Yeah PADDs were neato, but Star Trek's writers sure made them seem ridiculous.Yea it's funny how star fleet ships just had a ridiculous amount of computer memory, a single computer chip had enough to store a holographic consciousness, and a small shuttle pod once stored data for every atom in a entire quadrant of space. Yet Wesley classroom e books consumed 10 PADDS.. Jesus Crist how big were those books? Was it the collective knowledge of a 1000 worlds? His school must have sucked big time. No wonder Wesley evolved into a higher being at the end of season 4. :)
Remember how many episodes someone would give someone a STACK of PADDs just for comic effect? I mean, it's a wireless storage device! Just dump all the files on it, even if you are all lining up to keep dumping more and more into it, instantly, even if he says "no". That can still be funny, it just won't have the "Wesley can't carry all those books, haha!" part. All it did was make Star Trek look incapable of imagining how inventions like those would actually change the future.
They did a pretty good job with the borg though...
Actually the look of those things is pretty clean, interface aside. There's just so much wasted space though.