#viewscreen

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Something Star Trek seems to have forgotten about over the decades is how the viewscreen can be used for visual storytelling instead of just as a fancy window that can also be used for video calls.

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Battlestar Galactica "Experiments in Terra"

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Seems like all Trek has replaced the viewscreen with a window now, even stuff set in the TNG era.

Not quite! The USS Cerritos apparently a viewscreen in the exact place a window would be, lit from outside making it look like a window. Or maybe it is a window with weird holographic glass that turns opaque when deactivated?

And although the Stargazer in Picard season 2 had a window, the Titan-A/Enterprise-G in season 3 was a viewscreen with a closed hatch in front of it

Which they open briefly to blast Vadic into space.

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Star Trek: Strange New World - Bridge Viewscreen Modes

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Looks Like a Few Tusken Raiders are Camped Out on the Canyon Dune Turn

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:01:55

The note about Shmi fixing her viewscreen the night before the race comes from Queen’s Peril by E.K. Johnston.

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