Happy Star Trek day!
In the original Star Trek pilot, the ship printed the distress call on paper—a technology dropped in the rest of the franchise. In 1965, computing was on paper, so even this printer was futuristic, with laser sounds instead of loud impact printing. This clip also shows a video intercom.
Star Trek: The Original Series S1E11 “The Menagerie, Part I” (34:11) and pilot “The Cage”
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Computing in cinema! In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Worf and Data board and investigate an ancient space module, which has the keyboard of a Teletype Model 33 mounted on the wall with some control panels.
Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E26 “The Neutral Zone” (1:32)
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Thalia Archibald