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Sionnach Glic
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Re: Control panals
I doubt it. Whenever they move the ship they always tap the control panel.
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Re: Control panals
Manual controls might have come in handy in "Chain of Command", when Riker and Geordi were mining the Cardassian ships in the nebula.
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This thread brings to mind the time Picard had to instruct the children on how to operate the turbolift control panel when they were trapped there in "Disaster." He rattles off some arcane series of commands like "press the brown button, than the blue one to the upper right, the yellow one under that and to the left..." (whatever the hell it was; the details hardly matter). The producers are actually bringing go light the absurdity of their own control panels!
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Sionnach Glic
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Re: Control panals
WTF? What the hell happened to buttons marked "floor 3"?
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Re: Control panals
Damn you Rochey! You know full well that would make use of common sense... What in Trek makes you think that is allowed in any form?! 
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A faint and futile hope that something as simple as elevators would be kept inteligent?
You know, at this rate I'm expecting everything in the Federation to have some sort of ridiculous touchscreen thing.
You know, at this rate I'm expecting everything in the Federation to have some sort of ridiculous touchscreen thing.
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*Captain Picard enters restroom and touches touch panel on belt to unfasten the buckle 
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:::then the Captain enters a series of 8 keystrokes followed by his command code to unlock the toilet lid:::Captain Picard's Hair wrote:*Captain Picard enters restroom and touches touch panel on belt to unfasten the buckle
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Re: Control panals
Come on, something that simple and foolproof would hardly lend itself to failure at a dramatic moment or tension as one tried to reroute the command heuristic.Rochey wrote:WTF? What the hell happened to buttons marked "floor 3"?
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Sionnach Glic
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Re: Control panals
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I'm still trying to figure out the "keyboard" with no characters on it, just people names or ititials...
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Re: Control panals
Does nobody notice that there are little numbers in the bottom of the keys
and also at least some of them must memorize their station
In Year of Hell after Tuvok was blinded by the torpedo exploded in his face he was still able to use the tactical station so he obviously didn't use his eyes for it
and also at least some of them must memorize their station
In Year of Hell after Tuvok was blinded by the torpedo exploded in his face he was still able to use the tactical station so he obviously didn't use his eyes for it
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Sionnach Glic
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Re: Control panals
How the hell do you manage that? I mean, at least with a proper keyboard you can feel your way around it, but you can't even do that with a touch-screen thing.
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You could just memorise where everything is, but if you cant read what the display is telling you, your kind of screwed.
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