Very plausible - especially since in my neck of the woods people universally called Atari 2600 cartridges, which were ROMs, tapes. Drove me crazy.
However if I don’t catch myself I’ll talking about taping something on my DVR.
That was actually part of Harlan Ellison’s original script treatment for “City on the Edge of Forever”—Kirk has to adjust his translator for 1930s english, as it was as hard for him to understand as Elizabethan english would be for the locals.
This doesn’t seem to have carried over into Star Trek canon, however; in a Voyager episode, for example, a castaway from a 29th century vessel on 20th century Earth seems to get along without a translator well enough. Although he might have simply learned the local language after being stranded for so long—but this assumes that the Trek producers actually thought that far through. Or gave a damn. 
That usage is too common to bother me. My 14-year-old nephew, whom I’m pretty sure has never used a rotary phone, still refers to dialing the phone. One meaning of “tape” is “to record” at this point.
The above does not excuse moviemakers presenting pseudo-medieval battles in which characters speak of firing arrows. That’s just stupid.
Fool of a Deltan! Nothing in Voyager ever happened! It’s all part of a holodeck fantasy written by that guy who nearly got Wesley Crusher tossed out of Starfleet Academy.
But you aren’t a microprogrammer who worked a lot with ROMs.
Bad holodeck fantasy, you mean. But TNG did the same thing - they went back to San Francisco in the 19th century, and if I recall met Mark Twain who looked just like he did when he lived in Connecticut many years later.
Of course this show was done after the morons took over.
Don’t remember that - need to look it up in my copy. But it is dumb - why would they bring universal translators down to a barren planet? To translate McCoy’s rantings - oh he wasn’t even ranting in the Ellison version.
I told an employer at the Library in the 1980’s that using the term “video” for a tape was like calling a cassette an “audio”.
She promptly began referring to cassette tapes as “audios”.
I say “tape” for “record” sometimes.
Was the command at Agincourt “Loose!” ?
Or perhaps “release.” Maybe “shoot.” Possibly “Blot out the sun & make 'em fight in the shade” or “Plant an arrow into each one of those motherfuckers!”
I believe that was the Spartans fighting the Persians at Thermopylae.
Somehow, they were more classy in antiquity.
Persians: “Our arrows will blot out the sun!”
Spartans: “Fine. We will fight in the shade.”
Actually, that probably degenerated to:
Persians: “Don’t you see this G-ddamn scary armor we’re wearing?”
Spartans: “Fuck you!”
It is rumored that John Paul Jones did not say, “I have not yet begun to fight!”, but, “Now I’ve got the son of a bitch!”
This would imply that Seven of Nine also never happened.
Blasphemy.
Nope. It was, “We need a bigger boat.”
Catherine the Great said something like that when he was ambassador to Russia…
Worst character on the show. But she did predict that all future Trek would have a fanservice chick.
Could have been. It’s cognate with German los, as in “Torpedo, los!”
I would speculate, however, that it was “Shoot!” (which, if Sink the Bismark! was accurate, was the command given in the Royal Navy at least until the 1940s; don’t know about today):
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Worse than Neelix? Chakotay? The Rock?
If he was actually connected all the time (or a lot of the time), then a cord is a good idea. My cordless phone has about an hour of talk time (at least on speaker). Fortunately I’ve got a three unit set, so for long calls I can swap them out.
Not that they couldn’t have posited improved battery technology.