I hate to break it to you, but…they’re TV shows. Enterprise is being made about 35 years after TOS.
You ok?
Somebody get the smelling salts…Dammit, put down the salt shaker, Tars!
Kirk of course
Dude, I’m pretty sure that’s a medical scanner.
It’s not quite paper, it’s syntho-cellulous-terapaper, with reversed polarity fraud protection and tachyon ink.
Is Joey the one with experience on a starship (Lost In Space), or am I thinking of the wrong guy?
Maybe it was Fireball XL5.
Robert the Robot?
Ah, but we never get to see what’s on those little pads/tablets that Kirk signs! They could be like those electronic sign-here thingies UPS uses. They could still be PADDs!
Whew, that was close. Almost didn’t make it back to my feet. I don’t think I coulda survived Tars’s smelling salts.
They can’t be PADDS because there were no PADDs in 1969. Maybe no UPS.
You know, those guys get really pissed if you mutter “Captain KIrk” when they give it to you to sign.
Were there PADDs in 1986 when TNG premiered?
I don’t think so. TOS gave us cell phones and UPS tablets, TNG gave us PDAs and…what about Picard and that stupid laptop?
And 3.5 inch floppy disks. (Look at those things they insert into the computer slots in the Kirk-on-trial-for-murder episode.)
Tricorders too. I remember reading about a functional one in the special edition 35th Anniversary magazine they made a few years ago.
Somebody built/is building a hand held mass spectrometer which is kind of sort of a tricorder.
What is the TRI in tricorder?
I just went to my room and grabbed the magazine I was referencing.
The tricorder mentioned in the article was built by two Canadians, Tim Richardson and David Sweetnam, in 1995 (it was the 30th Anniversary magazine, not the 35th) and it’s capable of reading temperatures, barometric readings, electromagnetic radiation, incident light intensity, and color scanning.
It weighed about ten ounces and fit into the palm of your hand.
Does it make that nifty whirring sound?
It beeps.
Kewl.