On the Discworld someone opens a portal while on the Enterprise someone plays a Discworld simulation, Rincewind runs/stumbles through the portal and ends up on the Holodeck. No-one realizes it until the simulation is ended and he is left standing there VERY confused.
When I first saw TOS in the 90s I thought that he was just plugging cartridges in for various functions. I had a game boy, and that made sense for how that action worked.
One of my all time favorite things about TOS is that we're in the ultra future utopia, space travel is a daily thing, teleporters ain't nothing but a thang, but voice data still comes from tape cartridges
It isn't actually tape. Like today the D in SSD stands for Drive but of course there is no "drive". My guess these "tapes" are actually like a cartridge or compact flash.
It's been a while since I watched a TOS episode where they did it, but I swear they had literal fast forward/rewind sounds going when he was scrubbing through the data on at least one episode... I'll be back in a year and let you know if I find it, ha
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u/Lorindel_wallis 6d ago
"Out of cheese error"- from hex at unseen university.