{"id":1494,"date":"2013-01-16T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2013-01-16T03:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T09:03:21","slug":"star-trek-ds9-and-the-color-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/star-trek-ds9-and-the-color-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek DS9 and the Color Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching Star Trek reruns (thank you, Netflix!) for a while now, and something that caught my eye once I finished <acronym title=\"The Next Generation\">TNG<\/acronym> and moved on to <acronym title=\"Deep Space 9\">DS9<\/acronym> was the prevalence of &#8220;eBook readers&#8221; that have an uncanny resemblance to Amazon&#8217;s Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>The devices in DS9 appear to undergo both heavy and subtle changes each time they make an appearance, but one edition of the eBook reader in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Profit_and_Loss_(episode)\" rel=\"follow\">Star Trek DS9: Profit and Loss<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>bore an incredible resemblance to the (previous gen) Kindle Touch, down to the same gray polymer material, rounded edges, almost exactly the same thickness and dimensions &#8211; with the exception of being in color.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The following are screenshots of Odo with said device, reading what he says is a copy of Mickey Spillane&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I,_the_Jury\" rel=\"follow\"><em>I, the Jury<\/em><\/a> (1947):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.29.31-AM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1498 colorbox-1494\" alt=\"DS9 Kindle 1\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.29.31-AM1-1024x640.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.29.31-AM1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.29.31-AM1-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.06-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1496 colorbox-1494\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-01-16 at 11.43.06 AM\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.06-AM-1024x640.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.06-AM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.06-AM-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.18-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1495 colorbox-1494\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-01-16 at 11.43.18 AM\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.18-AM-1024x640.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.18-AM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-01-16-at-11.43.18-AM-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting, no? Just one of the many things about the <em>Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0series that was way ahead of its time! Keep in mind that this episode aired March 1994, when the closest thing the world had seen to such a device would probably have been the <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/800px-Apple_Newton_and_iPhone.jpg\">Apple Newton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching Star Trek reruns (thank you, Netflix!) for a while now, and something that caught my eye once I finished TNG and moved on to DS9 was the prevalence of &#8220;eBook readers&#8221; that have an uncanny resemblance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/star-trek-ds9-and-the-color-kindle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[856,857,855],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-deep-space-9","tag-kindle","tag-star-trek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}