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Screenwriting

Warp in the space-time continuum

Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliver documents on disk to other characters?!
Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now? Do Star Trek stories take place in an alternate universe where e-mail was never invented?
Lois
  

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[nq:1]Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliver documents on disk to other characters?! Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now ? [/nq] It's because in space no one can hear the "you've got mail" alert.

  • [nq:1]Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliver documents on disk to other characters?!
  • Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now ?
  • [/nq] It's because in space no one can hear the "you've got mail" alert.
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[nq:1]Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliver documents on disk to other characters?! Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now? Do Star Trek stories take place in an alternate universe where e-mail was never invented?[/nq]
It's because in space no one can hear the "you've got mail" alert.

"You don't write because you want to
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[nq:1]Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliver documents on disk to other characters?! Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now? Do Star Trek stories take place in an alternate universe where e-mail was never invented?[/nq]
Something stupid in a "Star Trek" episode?!
I'm stunned.
Joe Myers
"It's a phase I'm going through."
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[nq:1]Why, oh why, do characters on "Star Trek: Enterprise" deliverdocuments on disk to other characters?! Do you personally know anybody who still carries floppy disks around now? Do Star Trek stories take place in an alternate universe where e-mail was never invented?[/nq]
*In the 24th century, it's so easy to hack, forge, or otherwise corrupt even the most securely encrypted document
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Geeze, all you had to do was reference that paragraph to a non-existent source and I would have bought it.

Paulo Joe Jingy
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[nq:1]I'm stunned. Joe Myers "It's a phase I'm going through."[/nq]
Are you sure it's not your warped drive?
Gene

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