The Silence and I wrote:Batman wrote:21 years worth of Okudagrams plus 7 years worth of no Okudagrams comes up as...28 years. Oops. I thought we were talking about 40, which clearly referred to the time Star Trek has been on the air dumbass.
So... we're counting time spent doing nothing between series as time favoring your position?
No you blithering idiot. I was pointing out that there have
not been 40 years worth of Star Trek using Okudagrams.
Perhaps you forgot the original point. It was this: these user control issues you reference have never been a problem ever in any series or movie (with the exception of very unusual situations, see Parallels). You responded to this point by saying over half of the 40 years of Star Trek didn't have these control panels you take offense toward, the implied words being these: 'less than half of Star Trek had these panels, so claiming a problem has never occurred ignores the fact that most of Star Trek couldn't have such a problem.'
So you can read my mind now? I objected purely on the grounds that, indeed, less than half of Star Trek (temporally speaking) did have them panels. You will now show how I used this to argue what you implied I was arguing when it was little more than a nitpick.
To which I pointed out that 21 years of produced Star Trek >> 7 years of produced Star Trek. I happen to be of the strange opinion that time not spent producing a series and/or movie shouldn't count here...
Either there's 40 years worth of Star Trek or there's not. If there is, that refers to the time it's been around, in which case more than half of it DIDN'T have Okudagrams. The fact that the vast majority of
aired episodes (and several of the movies) had them doesn't change that.
To sum up: You intended your earlier statement to show that over half of Star Trek did not have Okudagrams. However, no matter how long Star Trek has existed, of the screen time we have to work with most features Okudagrams. Much more than half in fact.
You know what I intended to show? I'm impressed. Or maybe you're just full of it. You knoww, I think the latter explanation is closer to the truth. What I SAID, and that was all I INTENDED to say, was that there have NOT been 40 years worth of Trek with Okudagrams not running into the problems I mentioned, as they simply haven't been around that long. Everything else comes from your fevered imagination.
And that time can be the difference between destruction and survival in a combat situation. Having to logon to the station when you start your shift is one thing. Having to do so in the middle of a running battle because the guy who was SUPPOSED to be manning that console just became a fatality is another.
It would appear that comm badges do this automatically. Good enough for you?
As there is exactly zero evidence for that being the case, no.
That would be the 'rearrange the layout of the console' part, genius.
While you typed it, the feeling I got from it was that you expect such an action to take more than say, the time it takes to tap 3 to 4 keys. So I wanted to make the distinction, that being I don't think such an action (loading a user profile) would take appreciable time, while it appears you do.
In a combat situation, I consider a few seconds appreciable time, yes.
Regardless, it looks like comm badges do all the work anyway.
As evidenced by nothing whatsoever.
