Timeline for How do USS Enterprise Crew members receive emails or other forms of personal messages?
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| Nov 25, 2016 at 12:21 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @RoguePlanetoid: Although that could be a bit impractical for people who often change assignments. Also, down to what level should that be resolved? Single runabouts count as ships in their own right, too. Not to mention possible classified assignments ... no, it would seem like a better design not to mention a ship or station name in the "e-mail address" to Starfleet personnel. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 9:21 | comment | added | RoguePlanetoid | It's interesting the to/from of messages doesn't seem to have been addressed (excuse the pun) but wonder if they have an email like address e.g. [email protected] but is a good question! | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:45 | comment | added | Valorum | @PointlessSpike - Someone gave me a handwritten CV a few weeks ago. Very odd. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | PointlessSpike | @Valorum- To be fair to them, I always have the same reaction when I see some of the older people at work doing that. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | Valorum | @PointlessSpike - Jake Sisko writes on real paper. It's seen as a bit weird and retro. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 12:46 | comment | added | PointlessSpike | I suspect that the idea of sending letters in paper form is a little bit alien to them. So the word "letter" probably means "email" or some analogue. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:13 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Valorum: Mhm. So, that seems to confirm my earlier comment that it's "exactly like today". | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:10 | comment | added | Valorum | @O.R.Mapper - I already addressed that. You write "Cap'n Kirk, care of Starfleet" on the letter and it'll get there. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:06 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Valorum: Yes, it might be like that, but why? I really don't see a reason why it would be any more complicated with today's communication systems. Or, put differently: Based upon what we can find in canon material, nothing seems to point to sending messages to someone on a starship being any more difficult than establishing remote communication today. Also, note that you're describing how it works technically, but that still doesn't change anything about how users specify a destination address. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 10:04 | comment | added | Valorum | @O.R.Mapper - It could be a bit like bitcoin, where the message propogates outwards to the entire network, then gets deleted when a node detects that the relevant bit (in this case a letter) has reached its destination but what we tend to see are "message packets" where multiple messages including engineering updates, low-level orders, etc are all bundled together. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 9:58 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Valorum: "I suspect it may be rather more complicated when dealing with an interstellar network." - why would that be? | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 9:55 | comment | added | Valorum | @O.R.Mapper - I suspect it may be rather more complicated when dealing with an interstellar network. And much more akin to the "mail ships" of the Navy where a single copy is shunted around until it reaches its destination. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 8:59 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "Given that ..." - in other words, exactly like today? You can send me a message (e-mail to an e-mail address, text message to a phone number, to some extent (at least on a town-scope) even physical letters to a P.O.Box or to some special entities) without having to know where I am, because a trusted party is our mutual point of contact? | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 4:26 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @PaulD.Waite The movies, notably The Voyage Home, also show that Starfleet Headquarters are in San Francisco. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 1:12 | vote | accept | Lolologist | ||
| Nov 17, 2016 at 1:03 | comment | added | Valorum | Kirk is pretty famous. I would imagine he has a mail service that deals with his fan-mail. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 1:02 | comment | added | Valorum | Since "letters" in the future are simply emails or video-messages, I'd imagine that each person would have their own dedicated email address. Failing that, you could just send them to Captain Kirk, Starship Enterprise, c/o Starfleet HQ, San Francisco and they'd probably get to him (eventually). | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 1:02 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Lolologist: I believe it’s in San Francisco, and that we see it during, for example, Voyager’s Non Sequitur, and Deep Space Nine’s Homefront. | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | Lolologist | That sounds reasonable! Is there any mention of Starfleet Headquarters' address, and/or a reasonable extrapolation from real-life analogues? | |
| Nov 17, 2016 at 0:43 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |