There's one thing I love about Enterprise, but I didn't even notice it until I saw an interview with the producer.
The technology in TOS looks positively absurd by today's standards. Those little communicators were SO COOL in the '60s but by the '90s they became quaint and now they're stone age. Computer monitors seemed to be few and clunky. There were control panels with individual knobs, buttons and blinking incandescent lights but no keyboards, LEDs or LCD displays.
Enterprise was supposed to take place in our future but before Kirk, so it should have looked MORE advanced than we are today but LESS advanced than TOS. That was a dilemma for the producers. What to do?
The solution they adopted was to split the difference in REVERSE! That is, they made the technology a little more clunky than we have today, but more advanced than Captain Kirk had.
I found predicament amusing from an entertainment perspective and astounding from an advancing technology perspective.
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