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To: Kid Shelleen

ST might be having a long life, but it is not aging well.


32 posted on 09/08/2026 6:49:41 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: beef

I was a big fan back in the early 70s watching afternoon/after-school reruns at 5:00 on the local ABC affiliate.

We decided to revisit TOS and streamed them about a year ago.

Still entertaining, but the ‘advanced’ technology is quite a bit “Off” with the perspective of 60 more years.

Two big things... Every thing is push button or slide lever controlled. The lack of touch screens is something that makes it not work well today. Of course they didn’t know about the development of touch screens.

The other more hilarious thing is, evidently the technology of seat belts was lost somewhere over the centuries. Watching the crew go ricocheting around the bridge when being attacked seems needlessly dramatic. A few dozen seatbelts would have saved lots of bumps and bruised.


38 posted on 09/08/2026 7:16:05 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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