Have you ever noticed that there is no wifi in the Star Trek universe?
Especially in TOS and even in TNG, Kirk and Picard were always getting electronic clipboards handed to them by comely Ensigns awaiting their signatures.
Why can't these forms and communiques be sent over electronically?
It was probably a naval thing.
Battlestar Galactica (The new one) had wireless, too. But Adama and the rest still had to sign things for work requests, shipping details, etc.
Because then all the comely Ensigns would be out of a job. Can't have that, don't want that :)
I think that is electronic sending, computer to pad, pad to captain, captain signs, pad tells computer, signature stored. I suppose he could have done a thumb swipe somewhere, but then there’d be no reason for yeomen Rand to exist, I prefer a world with yeoman Rand.
Sure there was. From TNG onward, crew members always wandered around using those pad devices that looked like iPad Minis. They were wireless interfaces to the central computer.