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the slide rule in the new series. I thought the slide rule in the first series was rather silly. (The producers fixed this in the third year with Spock holding a calculator.) This is one bit of continuity I am happy not to see.
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I'd like to see a slide rule stored away somewhere... never know when the power is going to go out and you need a trusty slide rule to calculate how long you have to live.
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Well, TOS showed us (more than the later series) that there are a lot of officers on a ship that have very specific duties (historians and such). I wouldn't be surprised if the ship had a mathematician, who probably knows how to use abaci, slide rules, and differential engines...
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A ship historian to tell the ship craftsman how to build a differential engine so the ship mathematician can have something to use?
I wonder how much a pocket calculator with Indiglo function cost in the 23rd century. Or maybe some bloody alien dampening field can disable that, too. Maybe they should just bring a Vulcan along.
CO: Crank those wheels, Lt! We need that firing solution!
Mathematician: You can't expect me to do 3D spacial geometry with this old piece of #(&%!
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