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On the seats in "Yesterday's Enteprise" and "Emissary": I think it's not that there was no First Officer's seat. More probably, there was no *counselor*'s seat.
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Actually, I believe the alternate E-D from "Yesterday's Enterprise" had neither an XO nor counselor seat. The captain's seat was on a raised platform by itself.
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Of course, the YE alt-Enterprise-D didn't have a counsellor either, so a seat would be pretty redundant.
I'm sure they're are some early eps of TNG where someone gives the command 'Viewer on'. Possibly in "The Last Outpost", but I'm not watching it to check.
And to counter Monty's claim, aren't stars suppossed to be pretty? I'm sure the crew would love to watch them fly by, and feel "inspired" or sumink.
Actuall,y to go back to the original point, what was the advantage of the 3d viewer, Since the flat viewers were 3d too. Was it so you could walk around the picture? Or was Picard suppossed to stand in the middle of the holoviewer, grab the Borg cube and say "I am pinching your head"?
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I don't think you could walk into or around the picture. I think it was just that that section of the wall could display holographic images other than the viewscreen. Basically, the only difference between it and a normal viewscreen is that there was no frame.
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I imagine the bridge crew could get dizzy watching the star streaks or whatever they actually represent fly by all the time. It's also unnecessarily boring, not better than staring at an empty wall. I don't know what Sulu liked about it. I would use the screen as a main status monitor, maybe with insets showing live views from different crucial areas of the ship (not what you think in your dirty imagination ;-)).
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The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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Actually, when I first heard that the new film (this was in mid-1996) was going to feature a 'holographic viewscreen' I assumed it would be either a 3D affair. . . which admittedly sounded crap. Maybe the holographic viewscreen was capable of giving virtual views of what they were looking at, extrapolating from available information. Or something.
So why replace it? Maybe they got a holocommunicator instead, and *sarcastically* we all know how extensively those are used nowadays. . .
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What about those holograms that came out of the Picard's Desk and the obs lounge table - seen in "The Last Outpost" - pity we didn't see them again... would have been cool... especially as computer graphics got better - well we know where Crusade stole their idea from...
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