Actually they had individual access terminals in the Captains office on the desk, you see on in sick bay on Bones’ desk, and in Wrath of Khan Khan is reclining on his bed in quarters with a terminal unit on a swing arm. I would be willing to bet that if they carried this thought out to a sensible conclusion there is a terminal in every officers personal quarters, there is probably a ships library for enlisteds with public access terminals. I seem to remember they had open bay barracks for lower ranked enlisteds, there might be one or two public access terminals in there as well.
Viva la France!
He wants to be human. That’s always the excuse for why he doesn’t use his superhuman abilities–except for when he does.
I have an app on my phone that mimics a tricorder.
They also had these stand alone units that could be I guess thought of as PCs. They also had these planet side when they were doing research in the field like in Miri and The Omega Glory. The show never explained what these units were for in relation to the ship’s main computer.
smartphone > communicator
alcohol > synthehol
security measures to prevent holograms from accessing nonholographic-pertinent systems now > ST
True, the communicators are probably the most obsolete. They’re just glorified walkie-talkies. They don’t have voice mail, play music, take pictures, video games, GPS…
Apparently, the ENTERPRISE lacked circuit breakers (1890 technology).
Look at the bridge after a Klingon hit-smoke and sparks are issueing from the control panels-whilst Spock probes around with a screwdriver.
Also, down in the “engine room”-why do they have guys sitting at those control panels-do those dilithium crystals require constant maintainence?
Also, where does Scotty stash the booze?
Nah, it might look like a tricorder, but it doesn’t have the broad array of sensors that a tricorder does. Granted, it probably does have a few sensors that tricorders aren’t ever shown to have.
That leaves you vulnerable to electronic warfare measures that could jam some or all of your communications.
Not saying it’s a good reason to use isolinear data chips, but a local data cache certainly makes sense if the expense is not unreasonable.
The last one made me literally LOL, but I wish the second were not a joke. It would be awesome if there was a way to get the intoxicating affects of alcohol but also completely get rid of the feeling in a moments notice. I bet many would kill for just no hangover.
And, yes, circuit breakers > sending raw plasma to nearly every station.
They did have those portable pads that Yeoman Rand was always shoving in Kirk’s face and the stylus he would use to sign them (also becoming oblsolete).
They lose enough Red Shirts on away missions without everyone wandering around an alien planet playing Angry Birds. 
Yeah, the one time we did see portable gaming devices on the Enterprise, it nearly cost them the ship.
Though it does call to mind one early episode of Babylon 5 where we see Vir playing some sort of handheld game instead of paying attention to a diplomatic meeting.
Didn’t the very first episode of Star Trek use what looked like 3 1/2 inch floppy drives in the court martial proceedings of Captain Kirk?
Even TOS communicators were a hell of alot more advanced than any cellphone available today. They didn’t need any kind of cell tower network, could transmit between planets, or even through solid rock.
They couldn’t communicate over interplanetary distances. They’re satellite phones, with the starship being the satellite.
Yes, TOS predicted pen tablets which never really caught on because touch interfaces have become the norm. However, it was still a good prediction.
I wonder when they’ll figure out surge suppressors?
Well in fairness he only uses them in duties, hobbies, and in pursuit of being human. I don’t think he quite gets the irony, considering someone had to point out to him “people don’t have internal chronometers” when he was trying to see a watch pot not boil as quick.
Not exactly. TOS had pen tablets and some computers could be programmed by voice.
I think the biggest mistake in TOS was that user interfaces would consist primarily of colorful blinking lights.
