Started watching Star Trek: The Original Series on Netflix and oddly enough I made it through the first 3 episodes. It's rare that I can watch more than 10 minutes of something otherwise.
I find it fascinating in the way that one would watch animals in a zoo. The primitiveness of technology is downright comical. (The primitiveness of interacting with female crew members would get one not to HR but straight fired and maybe prosecuted nowadays).
I read somewhere that "they" (The World) didn't have computer monitors in 1968 when the series was started. On the other part fans of Star Trek praise it for having forecast every technology we have today and more. Couldn't be more exaggerated.
They do have TV screens in the starship but no monitor in the modern way whatsoever. Computer output is ... hold on... on teletypewriter
Like traveling at faster than light speed but they run out of printer paper in the space ship and they are funked 
And when they rest (like in the infirmary) or wanna get some entertainment, they have some crude things that could be mistaken for monitors by the modern eye. They're ... microfilm readers
Not only they didn't forecast the computer monitor. The video player wasn't invented yet and apparently they didn't thought playing pre-recorded movies on your own TV as opposed to live program was a thing. (Side note, RCA had the technology since about 1964 but somehow managed to beat around the bush for 17 years!! until they finally released it and by that time it was too late, no chance competing with VHS. Could have had The World all to themselves but watching Star Trek from 1968 it becomes clearer: people simply couldn't imagine movies outside a theater projection would be a thing).
And probably the lamest (and saddest) image is "the entertainment room" or something. They have tables, something that looks like ... a radio... and ... play cards. Holly Jesus, same sort of "entertainment" bored sailors would have had when Christopher Columbus went out to buy potatoes
I find it fascinating in the way that one would watch animals in a zoo. The primitiveness of technology is downright comical. (The primitiveness of interacting with female crew members would get one not to HR but straight fired and maybe prosecuted nowadays).
I read somewhere that "they" (The World) didn't have computer monitors in 1968 when the series was started. On the other part fans of Star Trek praise it for having forecast every technology we have today and more. Couldn't be more exaggerated.
They do have TV screens in the starship but no monitor in the modern way whatsoever. Computer output is ... hold on... on teletypewriter
Like traveling at faster than light speed but they run out of printer paper in the space ship and they are funked And when they rest (like in the infirmary) or wanna get some entertainment, they have some crude things that could be mistaken for monitors by the modern eye. They're ... microfilm readers
Not only they didn't forecast the computer monitor. The video player wasn't invented yet and apparently they didn't thought playing pre-recorded movies on your own TV as opposed to live program was a thing. (Side note, RCA had the technology since about 1964 but somehow managed to beat around the bush for 17 years!! until they finally released it and by that time it was too late, no chance competing with VHS. Could have had The World all to themselves but watching Star Trek from 1968 it becomes clearer: people simply couldn't imagine movies outside a theater projection would be a thing).
And probably the lamest (and saddest) image is "the entertainment room" or something. They have tables, something that looks like ... a radio... and ... play cards. Holly Jesus, same sort of "entertainment" bored sailors would have had when Christopher Columbus went out to buy potatoes
