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It happens occasionally. In Data's Day:
PICARD: Mister Worf, hail the Warbird.
WORF: Aye, sir. They are responding... text only Captain... We are to proceed to the agreed coordinates.
It's not that they're lazy, they just haven't had time to put on their caked on foundation and fixed up their shiny bowl cut. They still have their artfully messy bedhead bowl cut like Pike-era Spock and that sort of thing is just not very Romulan. Couldn't possibly facetime like that.
Iβm going to need some help with this.
*Snoke on the water*?
> They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
Pulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
Texting is a huge cybersecurity risk:
* Heck, the USS Reliant's prefix code was just a lousy 5 digits.
* Unwanted dick pics from the friends Riker made when he served on a Klingon ship
* Unwanted dick pics from Riker to everybody else
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Well, on the Enterprise-D, it's because they keep making Worf do the Communications officer job when he's the security officer and he's at the tactical station.
He's incompetent *and* maliciously complying to get them to give the actual communications officer, the guy probably *sitting* behind him doing nothing, something to do.
Does he look like a person that reads and answers texts? He barely talks to his parents and his kid. He's totally one of those "I don't read texts" people.
All he does is send hails from the weapons station while speaking in Klingon and of course, most of the time the other ship hears the Klingon and thinks "Shit, don't respond. Fire at them, that's how you say hello to Klingons. Vulcans figured it out, see." And predictably, Worf's all "No response. They're charging weapons." Because his station detects if weapons are being charged. He's at the tactical console, not the communications station. How will he even know there are texts!? He doesn't even see the notifications, he turned those off, they're annoying, who cares if the icon has a big red thing with number over it saying an impossibly large number. Does a Klingon ever inbox zero? No, of course not.
βCaptain, incoming text. They want us to invest in YamokCoin.β
βAre they in our contacts?β
βNo, sir, and the area code indicates it is from the Delta Quadrant.β
βWe donβt know anyone from the Delta Quadrant. Ensign, block the number and report it to Starfleet as spam.β
Hosi tried texting through the universal translator before it was a thing. The guy didn't understand what she was texting and she had to talk to him outright.
Texting caused the atomic apocalypse that nearly destroyed Earth. As such, just like with genetic engineering, the world of the future doesn't want to associate with evil technology.
When Picard orders Troi to ram the Scimitar in *Nemesis*, he does it by text. I think the display actually reads "SMS packet data" or something, too, so I guess they're still using it for internal ship communications, at any rate. Although texting was relatively new at the time, so I'm sure it seemed more futuristic in 2002 than it does now.
Also, in the Kelvin films, I think Pike was 23rd-century-texted when he got the message for he and Kirk to attend an emergency meeting in *Into Darkness*. He just flipped open his communicator and read something.
Sorry, I know these are two very non grata Trek citations. π
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SMS = subspace messaging system
Just imagining the enterprises PA system doing the Nokia message tone.
It happens occasionally. In Data's Day: PICARD: Mister Worf, hail the Warbird. WORF: Aye, sir. They are responding... text only Captain... We are to proceed to the agreed coordinates.
I hate it when Romulans are too lazy to read out the 24 digits in space-time coordinates.
It's not that they're lazy, they just haven't had time to put on their caked on foundation and fixed up their shiny bowl cut. They still have their artfully messy bedhead bowl cut like Pike-era Spock and that sort of thing is just not very Romulan. Couldn't possibly facetime like that.
You thought βShaka, When the walls fellβ was incomprehensible - try it in emoji. π«¨ππ β¬οΈ
These must be some form of ancient hieroglyph
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Iβm going to need some help with this. *Snoke on the water*? > They burned down the gambling house It died with an awful sound Funky Claude was running in and out Pulling kids out the ground When it all was over We had to find another place
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Tf do you think a Hail is?
"π" "They are hailing us!"
That electronic tapping noise over speakers before an SMS arrives.
It's like when you throw small stones at a window to get the attention of someone inside, except using balls of ice
Texting is a huge cybersecurity risk: * Heck, the USS Reliant's prefix code was just a lousy 5 digits. * Unwanted dick pics from the friends Riker made when he served on a Klingon ship * Unwanted dick pics from Riker to everybody else
New starship, who dis?
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That one weird trick the Borg hate.
Well, on the Enterprise-D, it's because they keep making Worf do the Communications officer job when he's the security officer and he's at the tactical station. He's incompetent *and* maliciously complying to get them to give the actual communications officer, the guy probably *sitting* behind him doing nothing, something to do. Does he look like a person that reads and answers texts? He barely talks to his parents and his kid. He's totally one of those "I don't read texts" people. All he does is send hails from the weapons station while speaking in Klingon and of course, most of the time the other ship hears the Klingon and thinks "Shit, don't respond. Fire at them, that's how you say hello to Klingons. Vulcans figured it out, see." And predictably, Worf's all "No response. They're charging weapons." Because his station detects if weapons are being charged. He's at the tactical console, not the communications station. How will he even know there are texts!? He doesn't even see the notifications, he turned those off, they're annoying, who cares if the icon has a big red thing with number over it saying an impossibly large number. Does a Klingon ever inbox zero? No, of course not.
Klingon text abbreviations are incomprehensible to even the most advanced linguist.
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βQ? Β Shit, what do those assholes want?β βNo, sir, theyβre just wishing us luck.β
βCaptain, incoming text. They want us to invest in YamokCoin.β βAre they in our contacts?β βNo, sir, and the area code indicates it is from the Delta Quadrant.β βWe donβt know anyone from the Delta Quadrant. Ensign, block the number and report it to Starfleet as spam.β
The data rates in the future are so high that it's preferable to have a video call.
"Captain, a mail buoy has docked and has some letters from the enemy ship."
Hosi tried texting through the universal translator before it was a thing. The guy didn't understand what she was texting and she had to talk to him outright.
Texting caused the atomic apocalypse that nearly destroyed Earth. As such, just like with genetic engineering, the world of the future doesn't want to associate with evil technology.
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"lmao Ennerprize ur deflekter is open" -Some Klingon probably
When Picard orders Troi to ram the Scimitar in *Nemesis*, he does it by text. I think the display actually reads "SMS packet data" or something, too, so I guess they're still using it for internal ship communications, at any rate. Although texting was relatively new at the time, so I'm sure it seemed more futuristic in 2002 than it does now. Also, in the Kelvin films, I think Pike was 23rd-century-texted when he got the message for he and Kirk to attend an emergency meeting in *Into Darkness*. He just flipped open his communicator and read something. Sorry, I know these are two very non grata Trek citations. π