His Master's Voice Recognition
January, 1995
In a scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the Starship Enterprise has journeyed back three centuries to the 1980s. Scotty borrows a computer from an engineer and begins speaking to it, but the computer doesn't respond. The 20th century engineer, who probably thinks his 23rd century counterpart has had one scotch too many, offers him the keyboard. "Oh, a keyboard," notes Scotty. "How quaint!"Star Trek's producers should pat themselves on the back for not letti...
