#PADD

[grayrazor]

So if 70s and 80s sci-fi like Alien and Blade Runner are “cassette futurism,” can we call 90s and 00s stuff like Marathon and Doom 3 “PDA futurism”?

[nelc]

PADDs

[crazy-cat-lady42]

Is that a PADD in your hand, or are you just happy to see me?

3d printed a st:tng PADD for myWade Wilson doll.

[fictionalred]

[arctic-hands]

Alright I don't have a Starfleet sticker like i thought I did but I did have this, so new poll

[Image Description: the back of a silver e-reader (Sony PRS-300), which is about hand-sized. On the back is an unattached sticker that has blue, seventies funky font that says "Live Long and Prosper" with a blue Vulcan salute (right hand palm out, pinky and ring fingers together and middle and pointer finger fingers together and a gap between ring and middle) in the center. End I.D]

[marxistgnome]

Memes shared by kids who grew up on starships I think they should have sea scout/land scout beef with kids that grew up on Starbases

[cattrek]

what is julian texting our favourite simple tailor?

[arachniasbride]

Have you ever considered trying it yourself? Romance, I mean. (insp. x, x)

[antigrav-boy]

[departmentq]

Some thoughts about PADDs

I had a thought that began with this scene from Lower Decks.

T'Lyn just...tosses it out the window, the modern day equivalent would be to chuck my phone out of a car to delete a google doc.

Its obvious that PADD were designed 24th century visual metaphor for presenting hard copy information between characters, like envelopes or reports, or ancient scrolls in period dramas.

Because they were fictional, the user processes hadn't yet been developed (TNG premiered in 1987, iPhone first release in 2007, iPad in 2010). Nobody knew to forward files from one device to another; if you notice, in TNG/DS9/VOY often someone, like Riker or Geordi, will physically hand their PADD to Picard so he can read their report.

This scene in DS9 is the equivalent of they're the same picture meme

So Trek carried on the metaphor further by having multiple PADDs on someone's desk to show accumulated paperwork:

Then there's Jean-Luc's challenges with organizing and prioritizing in Insurrection.

My personal head canon is that between now and the 24th century, it was found that having multiple tabs open on a device was somehow harmful to one's mental health.

[childoftherock]

he's a 10 but he's a tadpole. still a 10? ok

[crazy-cat-lady42]

Knock knock knock Trick or treat?!

Oh! Uhhhh sorry I'm a bit late.....here!

It's a mini PADD! From star trek!

[fictionalred]

throwback to my short lived pastel lilac hair but also, most importantly, the coolest phone case I ever had.

[youngpettyqueen]

when Keiko gets really mad at Miles she'll go recruit Julian to her cause and tell him "we're not talking to him until he apologizes" and Julian- who cannot say no to Keiko and who also loves to fuck with Miles- agrees to it every single time and it drives Miles absolutely INSANE

[banmitbandit]

every time i draw something i feel like im learning how to draw all over again

anyways datariker fans is this anything