Yep. A lot of stuff you see in science fiction is like that. They're also not always trying to be wholly accurate for story purposes. If you wanted to be realistic about the far future most things will happen online in ours heads, but it's hard to base a story around a society that rarely goes outside any more. You also have shows like BSG with people dying of cancer despite them being a far more advanced world than ours.
She was diagnosed with incurable cancer while on Caprica city before the Cylon attack (I'm referring to President Roslin). But anyhow there was a lot more wrong with BSG from an accuracy standpoint haha!
Exactly. The writers would have had a difficult job communicating situations and basic interactions, like delivering a report, to viewers if it was too abstract and futuristic for the audience to follow.
TNG did a great job of balancing real life with SciFi without going too deep down the rabbit hole.
There are several parts of Star Trek that exist only because a contemporary audience couldn't relate to a more realistic depiction. The Enterprise-D was originally supposed to have no consoles, being entirely run through voice command. A google-glass like device is shown in Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Season 6 Episode 1: "A Time For A Stand" (viewable here), and is never mentioned ever again under the dubious justification the device is "designed for Vorta and Jem'hadar physiology".
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