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Originally Posted by frahse
Whoa there hombre! Star Trek has always been chock full of statements. Aphorisms everywhere.
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Of course it has been. But that's no proof that THIS is a statement of any kind.
This is a simple case of the written and visual mediums requiring different techniques to convey equal concepts. In a book, it would be dead simple to convey to the reader the title (and thus the allegorical implications--if any) of the ebook a character is reading from their datapad. You just tell them.
On the screen, the same would be much more challenging. Do you zoom in tight on a data-screen with the title page of the ebook showing? If you do, how long does the camera stay on it to ensure the information has been conveyed? Or do you clumsily have another character come by and say, "whatcha readin' on your datapad thingy there, Clyde?"
Or perhaps you have a disembodied voice-over inform the audience that Clyde is enjoying
A Tale of Two Cities from the ship's digital library.
No. You take the easy (and consequently statement-less) way out and show the physical book in the character's hands (or lying open on their stomach/nightstand).
Besides ... it's not as if "the future" won't have anachronisms and/or Luddites. *shrug*
It's very difficult for me to believe that the writers of Star Trek Discovery are somehow making a statement about the future of e-publishing (or that they just "goofed up").
EDIT: and I did not type the word "logistiAphorismscs" like it implies in your quote of my post! I want that made perfectly clear.
