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colin
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Background
Computer center
TOS. Starbases and starships had this room. A chief ran this room. "The Menagerie", "Metamorphosis"

Computer core
TNG. Starships had this room. "Evolution". (They also had programmers who programmed the computers and had their own bathrooms. This is from the dreary first year episode with the crystal dirt balls.)

Question
In the new series, would you like to see the computer room? Or is this one of the rooms that you would least like to see?


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Mikey T
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I'd rather see a lovely library instead of the computer room. That or a kitchen.

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Treknophyle
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Oh, we'll see a computer room. My question is: will it have an IBM logo, or a Mac logo?

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Siegfried
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We'll definitely see a computer room. How it will appear is anyone's guess at this point. I just don't wanna see those big magnetic tape drives flanking the master control program console.

We're also going to be seeing a kitchen for sure. This has been confirmed in one of the reports on the new series. So we get a galley and a mess hall. I'd also like to see a library room set off next to the computer core. I wish this scene had stayed in Insurrection because I liked the concept when I read The Galactic Whirlpool. It could be fun.

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OnToMars
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What scene would that be?

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Siegfried
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Well, there was a scene in Insurrection that was set in the library on the Enterprise, but it was cut to shreds during editting. It was when Riker and Troi were researching the Son'a. The scene was supposed to be much longer with more flirtation and the interactions of another crew member and a librarian. But all that was cut out. 'Tis a shame.

Unless you're talking about what scene I'm talking about from The Galactic Whirlpool. In that case, it was in the early part of the book after Enterprise had found the derelict ship. Turns out that it was an old Earth colony that had been in the L1 (?) position but declared independence and ran off. The librarian/historian was giving a slideshow presentation in the audio/video room in the library on the original Enterprise.

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Mikey T
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Isn't that library scene in the DVD edition of Insurrection? It's funny because I remember that librarians were getting upset over that scene.

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Harry
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I'd like the computer to resemble either some old mainframe computer (tapes and all) or a collection of Cray-like 'towers':
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/ftp/historic-computers/jpeg/cray2.jpg

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Harry
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Oh, yeah, and I'd like it to make an awful lot of noise! And I want to see some kind of Unix-looking OS on the control consoles.

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Kosa
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No, the library scene is not in the DVD version.

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Paramount's DVDs suck. They need to start adding in some extras besides just a trailer ...

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Mikey T
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Why does that computer look like it comes from Voyager's Science Lab?
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Harry
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Trust me, that *is* a real Cray supercomputer.

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Of course, there is the slight problem that in all likelyhood, by the real 22nd century, we'll have computers that will be building themselves...

Or not. AI is tricky that way, or so the mechanical man who lives in my garage tells me.


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