My headcanon has been that many of those PADDs are 1-time use read only devices that can't have the data copied, transferred, altered or deleted. When they're done, they just get resynthesized. They could be for classified data, secure reports, and so on. If it's just reading a couple duty shift reports, they are the small simple PADDs with scroll buttons. Intelligence reports on the sector, would have different levels of interactive bottoms on the sides. Potential prototype vessel upgrades, more space, more interactive features, and so on.

Look at the size of those bevels

Hey, we're getting there lol. If you count things like RFID tags (which have circuitry and microcontrollers embedded), we have plenty of disposable, single-use tech.

Also, typing anything or the use of buttons.

I think drivers of newer cars are discovering that buttons can be a good thing sometimes.

You have to use your hands. Like a baby’s toy?

It's already a stupid idea and concept today.

This is some interesting thought on how space battle and interstellar war would be fought.

https://youtu.be/tybKnGZRwcU

https://youtu.be/Z-dQbKaKNEY

https://youtu.be/9Xs3mGhQGxM

https://youtu.be/9Xs3mGhQGxM

I mean it's not the best way to travel, but there have never been more cruise ship passengers than today.

Even skipping the point of travelling between star systems in the future, as that is highly doubtful at best, that's not a principle I subscribe to.

It's usually way more economical to go for scale rather than individualism, let's look at some examples.

Travelling by bus or train is way cheaper and more efficient than travelling by car. Travelling by cruise ship/ferry is way cheaper and more efficient than getting your own boat. Travelling by passenger plane is way cheaper and more efficient than travelling by business jet which in turn is more efficient than getting your own little plane, which might not even be able to get you where you want to go.

Generally, especially when involving long distances and the material needs associated with it, having a big enough vessel to share the costs and limit the need to restock (en route) to a minimum.

Bar safety, logistical and cost concerns, we could already cram a nuclear reactor in a car or a bus. We don't because it simply doesn't make sense.

I see no reason why that logic wouldn't apply to some magical device that would enable interstellar travel, even if it would be able to instantly teleport you to your location without having enormous energy requirements.

Weirdly shaped starships.

• Why wouldn’t they be mass-symmetrical around the propulsion?
• why are some vertically oriented? Are these people constantly using elevators?
• what’s with this saucer on a sausage thing ? There’s a lot of inefficiencies in building, maintaining, and using the ship.
• If there is ever a time when a Starship can fly in an atmosphere, there’s going to have to consider aerodynamics

cries in German

May still want to stay off the White.

It's mentioned a few times, replicators can work "in reverse". They'll put in trash, dirty dishes, old clothes, whatever is no longer needed back in for the replicator to break back down into energy for later use