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4. Teleconferencing
If the bad guys showed up in the Star Trek universe, you could bet that a bit of teleconferencing activity wasn’t going to be far behind. Rodenberry and company understood a lot of simple facts about how human beings use technology, and there are few instances where the Star Trek creators got it more right than the need for the boss to look the bad guy in the eye and tell him he wasn’t going to surrender. While most Skype interactions probably lack the same threatening tone – in fact many are rather endearing interactions between distant parents and their children – only the cost of putting a bank of 100-inch TV screens on your wall prohibits you from giving every conversation the full “Kirk versus the Enemy of the Week” treatment.
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