{"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":"

I’ve been watching Star Trek reruns (thank you, Netflix!) for a while now, and something that caught my eye once I finished TNG<\/acronym> and moved on to DS9<\/acronym> was the prevalence of “eBook readers” that have an uncanny resemblance to Amazon’s Kindle.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Star 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 – with the exception of being in color.<\/p>\n

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The following are screenshots of Odo with said device, reading what he says is a copy of Mickey Spillane’s\u00a0I, the Jury<\/em><\/a> (1947):<\/p>\n

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Interesting, no? Just one of the many things about the 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 Apple Newton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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