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[–] 5 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

There's a lot of newer Trek shows that seem to have stayed away from smartphones too, though.

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  • [–] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    There's not a whole lot of entertainment value in having a bunch of people sitting in silence texting other people off screen with the occasional loud video being played to nobody. Even if they are in space.

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago

    Ditto for AI. Oh, sure, they played with AI, but always in an embodied holodeck character or an android, never as a disembodied computer program. Imagine a show where every major decision point on the bridge was "do what the computer says."

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