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Post by blueshift on Mar 20, 2017 12:05:18 GMT
As Back Up Phil, I can categorically state that I LOVE COMPUTER PANELS in doctor who and other tv shows. What is your favouite? In this thread we will discuss the best panels out there. And also... THE WORST!
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Post by Toph on Mar 20, 2017 14:11:41 GMT
I can leave or take it. Really though who wants to watch a panel of computers sitting around discussing things?
I guess its a unique take on this genre? But what does a computer have to talk about?
And what would you call it? "The Process?"
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2017 18:28:24 GMT
I really like the LCARS computer panels in Star Trek shows set in the 24th century.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 20, 2017 19:27:05 GMT
Computer panels on TV spaceships of the future are to be expected, and they date terribly as real world technology surpasses them in the present day.
On the other hand, computer panels where you would not normally expect them - e.g. on a car dashboard in the eighties - are the tops:
I did a YouTube search for "Knight Rider dashboard" and my mind was blown by how many people have replicated this iconic setup for their own cars, or to flog to people who want them. Almost makes me want to buy a car, just to get a KR dashboard installed in it.
Then there's the transforming living room 35 seconds into this, which is the thing that impressed me most about the series as a child. It's the bit of the show I looked forward to the most.
Dunno how Aunt May remained oblivious to it in her own house.
I tried every ornament in my living room, but nothing ever happened.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2017 20:06:12 GMT
So did I.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Mar 21, 2017 16:11:47 GMT
More seriously (since either no one got my joke, or I'm not as funny as I think I am), I've always had a soft spot for the computer panels in trek tmp movie era through voyager.
Even though they don't make much sense.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 21, 2017 21:03:26 GMT
Here is Doctor Who's BBC Micro on which he draws the tower of Rassillon *horn blares*  I liked in Star Trek how everyone basically had tablets, but rather than email stuff, they physically handed the tablets over as if they were paper |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2017 21:07:04 GMT
Orders were always signed off in pencil!
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Mar 21, 2017 21:38:22 GMT
Well to be fair in TNG, nothing like that really existed in the real world. Sure there was an internet and emails, but these were very poorly known.
There were no laptops, either, so the tiny laptop-like computer screen on Picard's desk was the shiznit.
Realworld computers in general were very very weak, slow, and cumbersome.
So, where the writers thought they were being really clever (ENTIRE BOOKS ON THESE TINY ELECTRONIC DEVICES!!!), they either never thought these tiny devices could communicate with each other wirelessly, or they thought that might be unrealistic.
To be fair, they were really clever. It just turned out real world was even more clever, as I am now writing what amounts to a letter from a telephone far more sophisticated than almost anything Kirk and Picard had at their arsenal (short of the enterprise herself), here in texas, which will instantaneously be readable to you in the UK, and can be viewed by anyone else in the whole entire world.
DS9 and Voyager however did not have the same excuses as TNG did, though. But while they still predate smartphones and tablets, the internet had finally reached the general population, as well as computers that were actually meaningful.
The writers could have sorta retconned these abilities into the data padds. And as TNG didn't really openly contradict it, it wouldn't have been hard to buy that they could do it all along.
But still, in all this time, nobody has made a tablet or e-reader modeled after the TNG data padd, and that's just sad.
(At least we finally got the blutooth TNG communicator)
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Post by blueshift on Mar 21, 2017 21:41:47 GMT
But still, in all this time, nobody has made a tablet or e-reader modeled after the TNG data padd, and that's just sad. (At least we finally got the blutooth TNG communicator) I'm pretty sure someone did but they got a cease and desist  |
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Post by blueshift on Mar 21, 2017 21:47:53 GMT
Yeah, it's only in recent years I've thought "Waaaaaaaaaaait a minute" at all the pad swapping!
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Post by blueshift on Mar 22, 2017 16:07:55 GMT
Mentalis is the best character in all of Doctor Who as he was literally a computer panel and inside him were more computer panels  |
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Post by Benn on Mar 22, 2017 19:03:21 GMT
I like the name, too.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2017 14:13:47 GMT
Mentalis has UFO and Space 1999 control panels.
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Post by Benn on Mar 31, 2017 10:36:53 GMT
He is the best of all worlds!
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 31, 2017 12:39:46 GMT
I loved and still love the original Enterprise bridge, with hardly any actual screens. Just flashing buttons. Told them a lot, those flashing buttons. Everything they needed to know. And Spock's viewer thingy. I'd love my own Bridge. I'd sit in the captain's chair in it all day long.
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Post by Toph on Mar 31, 2017 16:20:35 GMT
When I get super mansion rich... when I get Mitt Romney money, I'm building a room that is a replica of the Enterprise-D bridge. I want it to look as close to walking on set as possible, only with as much real working equipment as possible. The right dimesions, everything. Come in through the main turbolift, which itself I would try to create some experience with.
•The viewscreen will be either the biggest flatscreen TV I can find, or it will be be a theater screen for a projector television.
•All three command chairs will have tablets that operate as remotes in them
•Ops and Con will be game chairs
•The Engineering station would be a master control to all the electronic systems in the house
•Science 1/2,station would be a straight up computer
•The rest of the back wall stations would hide the entertainment equipment
•Was never sure what to do with Tactical beyond just a generic tablet interface that controls the TV and stuff.
If I got carried away (which I would), I may also try to replicate both the ready room, and the conference lounge.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 31, 2017 16:44:10 GMT
All this talk is reminding me of Douglas' Star Trek sex tape from The IT Crowd
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Post by legios on Mar 31, 2017 19:24:46 GMT
•Was never sure what to do with Tactical beyond just a generic tablet interface that controls the TV and stuff. Big flat panel display for playing strategy games on. Tactical is exactly the sort of place you'd want for playing Starcraft, Megamek, Alpha Centarui and the like. Whilst Conn should clearly have a flat screen and a touch-sensitive keyboard for Wing Commander, Starlancer, Freespace and the like (and perhaps a pop-up throttle and stick arrangement for the full "Insurrection"-esque playstyle) Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 20:57:04 GMT
Words cannot express how much joy the blue light from Spock's scientific viewport thingy on the Bridge has given me over the years.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Mar 31, 2017 20:59:36 GMT
Words cannot express how much joy the blue light from Spock's scientific viewport thingy on the Bridge has given me over the years. -Ralph But really, what was he looking at in there? I bet it was space porn |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 31, 2017 21:02:29 GMT
Why would you jump to that conclusion!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2017 21:08:12 GMT
Words cannot express how much joy the blue light from Spock's scientific viewport thingy on the Bridge has given me over the years. -Ralph But really, what was he looking at in there? I bet it was space porn Nooooooo. It told him Science!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Toph on Apr 1, 2017 2:07:26 GMT
•Was never sure what to do with Tactical beyond just a generic tablet interface that controls the TV and stuff. Big flat panel display for playing strategy games on. Tactical is exactly the sort of place you'd want for playing Starcraft, Megamek, Alpha Centarui and the like. Whilst Conn should clearly have a flat screen and a touch-sensitive keyboard for Wing Commander, Starlancer, Freespace and the like (and perhaps a pop-up throttle and stick arrangement for the full "Insurrection"-esque playstyle) Karl I have never played any of those. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 2, 2017 21:50:06 GMT
I am a lifelong fan of the Death Star tractor beam control panel; it feels so perfectly 1970s-heavy-duty-industrial-in-space. Part of the great verisimilitude that film had throughout.
(not to mention the control room 3PO and R2 were holed up in)
-Jim
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2017 21:12:03 GMT
That was a good control panel.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 30, 2024 10:35:31 GMT
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