Finally got aroind to signing up for an eternal-september account.
God, I'd forgotten how toxic the #StarTrek fan base can be.
That said, #usenet as a whole seems to be a magnet for toxicity in general.
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I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.
It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.
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Michael
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •In today's age of internet security, the handful of numeric digits is clearly not an effective password.
Maybe we can assume that there was some kind of additional layer of authentication behind the scenes, such as voiceprints based on the pronunciation of the digits...or coming in on a channel encrypted with Starfleet protocols, etc.
The computer certainly had to set up the codes so the crew could just throw the switches.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Oh, of course. But it can be fun to rationalize what is in the movie with what we know today.
The switches you mention in a different post are part of what tells me that there is some sort of additional security infrastructure behind the scenes we don't see.
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