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@Aedius @david_chisnall And it made sense in that world that a crew of effectively Space Navy officers and enlisted spacers had been taught to be precise in their language, as so many of the tasks in a crew setting like that are performative speech. You need to give unambiguous commands to shipmates AND equipment, and need to quickly give updates like "standing by" or "aye, sir" or "probe launched: contact in 634 seconds...".
it was so well covered that the ambiguities we see are always jarring. When someone is standing in a crowd of 10 people, and a mix of crew and locals are coming up and staying down, the call is always "four to beam up" and *somehow* the transporter operators know which four. How? Well that's just what filmmakers call "shoe leather": the kinds of details and procedure that would take so long that they distract from the story without even giving any useful flavour.
@spacehobo @Aedius @david_chisnall
> When someone is standing in a crowd of 10 people, and a mix of crew and locals are coming up and staying down, the call is always "four to beam up" and *somehow* the transporter operators know which four. How?
I'd also point out the kind of domain-specific machine-learning pattern matching that I've used in the real world to great effect -- 99% of those scenes I can remember, the people who are to be beamed up are standing still and looking slightly upward, in a way that if you saw only a screenshot of the episode you'd probably pretty easily pick out the four people who were supposed to be beamed up.
It would not surprise me to find that (in the fictional world, natch) the computer underlying the transport operator's interface is highlighting a selection of people in a given target zone who are standing in the "beam me up" posture.
Contrariwise, most emergency beam-ups seem to involve either much more specific commands or "all crew in the area, only".
@spacehobo @Aedius @david_chisnall
> When someone is standing in a crowd of 10 people, and a mix of crew and locals are coming up and staying down, the call is always "four to beam up" and *somehow* the transporter operators know which four. How?
I'd also point out the kind of domain-specific machine-learning pattern matching that I've used in the real world to great effect -- 99% of those scenes I can remember, the people who are to be beamed up are standing still and looking slightly upward, in...