I guess its not as bad as I thought. Other than the flat panel displays, I was sort of hoping phasers, transporters, and warp drive would have been priorities.
Of course, those got all the glory, but the real useful things would have been the ships’ artificial gravity systems (which presumably allow inertial dampening) and the matter/antimatter power systems.
You know its all Bush’s fault we don’t have these things...
Aw, artificial gravity is simple; that’s why The Original Series had a saucer section: Concentric rings of decks could spin at proportional rates to make up a standard “gravity” force, which was really inertia.
Of course, The Next Generation folks were new-agey morons, rather than science-minded, and instead imagined the “saucer” section flat, and detachable from a mysteriously gravitational lower ship. The lower ship in The Original Series had been primarily zero-gravity propulsion.
And yes, that’s why “flying saucers” were first theorized in the 1940s: its a simple means of artificial gravity.
Deep Space 9 imagined a ring of developments spinning around a core. 2010 imagined two main compartments, spinning around a single core. Babylon 5 foreaw a rather conical spinning ship.