I was particulary offended by this in the recent Star Trek: Picard.
In previous shows the Federation has demonstrated the ability to create totally flawless and interactable holograms.
Yet somehow in this show everyone has switched over to glowly flickering interfaces hovering over your desk.
In the headquarters of Star Fleet, a giant hologram of a star ship is in the atrium, and it glitches out for a moment as the camera looks at it just to let the viewer know it's a hologram.
Not only is there no reason for holograms to glitch out all the time assuming that the technology could be created, but this TV series has already demonstrated their ability to do this much better!
ST:Picard and ST:Discovery are unfortunately both regressions where it comes to ST wordbuilding and style. Frankly, Lower Decks - currently airing animated "Rick&Morty meets ST:TNG" - does it better. Holograms there look and behave like they should.
In previous shows the Federation has demonstrated the ability to create totally flawless and interactable holograms.
Yet somehow in this show everyone has switched over to glowly flickering interfaces hovering over your desk.
In the headquarters of Star Fleet, a giant hologram of a star ship is in the atrium, and it glitches out for a moment as the camera looks at it just to let the viewer know it's a hologram.
Not only is there no reason for holograms to glitch out all the time assuming that the technology could be created, but this TV series has already demonstrated their ability to do this much better!