The DOT-7 drones appear in the early seasons of DISCO in the mid 23rd century. I know, modern show serving as a prequel to TOS puts things out of whack. However, they are canon.
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Yeah this has always been my go to as well. TOS also didn't talk much about how the warp drive works either.
It is kind of weird how it took until DISCO to add service robots to Star Trek. I'll excuse TOS even though they had the concept of service robots then too, but by TNG, they should have shown them. I'm sure it was a cost-cutting thing.
Well we know that the transporter was created for Trek specifically to save money. They couldn't show the ship landing every week on a new planet so just beam 'em down. I'm assuming the lack of bots was the same thing. That and how we think about bots now vs bots then is pretty radically different. Hell even the computer voice in TOS has been completely ignored from canon and instead replaced with a more natural sounding voice.
And, of course, the viewscreen went from a little window to the entire front wall of the bridge. New technology can make things look much cooler.
Exactly! I heard so many people complain about that viewscreen when it first debuted in Discovery and like... why? Having a tiny TV monitor in the middle of the wall is just bizarre. As for "but windows lower structural integrity" I mean yeah but we're not exactly dealing with regular glass here. That and most things melt through the hull itself and outright ignore the windows.
Also as we saw in Picard Season 3, those windows also double for the coolest airlock ever so...
Honestly, if SNW looked exactly like TOS, people would complain that it looked cheap, ridiculous and backward. So they made it look like a modern show. I totally understand. TOS was what I grew up with and will always be my Star Trek, but it was also a product of its time and SNW will probably look just as ridiculous in 50 years.
I thought the project to have a synth Majel voice was still going?
I more meant that Strange New Worlds has replaced the super stiff/robot-y Majel voice from TOS. Computer still sounds stilted and like a computer but not that weird 1960s 'robot accent' that existed.
I do wish they'd go back to using her voice as the primary but I get why they didn't.
Forget that, I want my Star Trek voice assistant app with Majel's voice!
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