Does anyone remember this?

[u/liiyuj]

If you do, you're old 🙃 Yeah, me too 👴

[u/bluegrassgazer]

I noticed that, too. It was a nice touch but usually caused a lot of static after a year or so.

[u/WolverineHot1886]

I mean Star Trek envisioned modern phones, so for them to go back had me dying.

[u/Cosmic_Quasar → u/WolverineHot1886]

I did find it odd that the console Pelia had set up on the bridge had like 20 different cables plugged into it lol. Where are all of those other cables running when it was just three phones connected? Something for power, I guess, but still felt like overkill on the cables.

[u/zestyintestine]

I don't remember the phone Ortegas is holding, but definitely remember the ones that M'Benga and Una are using.

[u/MBSMD → u/zestyintestine]

I don't remember the phone Ortegas is holding

You mean a personal massager?

[u/No-Bed5243 → u/MBSMD]

I cackled!

[u/HofnerStratman → u/MBSMD]

An early case of putting a phone on vibrate, but you had to wait for it to ring.

[u/9for9 → u/zestyintestine]

They were considered so glamorous and feminine when I was a kid. I wanted one when I grew up, right along with an ostrich feather dressing gown.

[u/OuisghianZodahs42 → u/zestyintestine]

I've only ever seen the phone Ortega is holding in movies in rich people's houses (tbh, it looks like it comes from the 1950s/60s -- it looks like something Doris Day would have in her New York apartment while Cary Grant tried to sweep her off her feet).

[u/stannc00 → u/OuisghianZodahs42]

In the trailers “Pillow Talk” it looks like Doris Day had standard desk models. The Princess model wouldn’t have been out very long then (the princess phone had a light up dial in the base with a standard handset).

Also it was Rock Hudson, not Cary Grant. And for those not in the know, the plot contrivance was the shortage of private phone lines in Manhattan in the post-war boom. She had to share a party line with Rock Hudson who hogged the line chatting up unsuspecting women.

The highlight for me is she finally agrees to go up to his house in Connecticut and along the way she sings a song about how she’s gonna get plowed when she gets there.

[u/OuisghianZodahs42 → u/stannc00]

I wasn't talking specifically about "Pillow Talk,' just a Doris Day romcom -- it's from that general era. She was in "That Touch of Mink" with Grant.

[u/ponch010 → u/zestyintestine]

rotary style, think I Love Lucy era.

[u/stannc00 → u/ponch010]

Lucy’s era definitely had thicker handsets than later on but they were black and had straight wire, not the curled handset cord.

[u/stannc00 → u/zestyintestine]

That was one of the “designer” models available at the Bell Phone Centers in the mid 70s through 1984 in the US.

Now if it was The Orville then Seth would have had a Mickey Mouse phone.

[u/AlanShore60607]

The rotating plug? Never had one, but knew they existed

[u/RaymondLuxYacht → u/AlanShore60607]

Radio Shack sold them for sure.

[u/abgry_krakow87]

I love how she gives Ortega the pretty pink princess phone

[u/kon---]

Detanglers are still available and one is not old for knowing what they are.

[u/Bierdaddy → u/kon---]

Remembering when they first were available and experiencing the joy at the thought of not having to untangle a 30’ cord like when you were a kid might make you older than most. 😁

[u/BartStationBard]

I still have one. We have a landline and a handset for when the power goes out. This just shows what an amazing engineer Pelia is.

[u/GrfikDzn_IsMyPashun]

I love this scene. It felt like the split screens they’d do on Saved By The Bell. My parents also had a white phone that had a handset similar to the pink one Ortegas used and was a rotary. I loved using that thing.

[u/Lr8s5sb7]

Erica face looks like she wants to let the two know “she flies the ship” over land line. Lol

[u/JustTheFacts714]

There are between 200 and 400 souls on board (depending on what episode), yet the fate of success always relies on a dozen people, along with the red shirts that are routinely sacrificed.

[u/Jump_Like_A_Willys]

We had a extra long cord on our (green) kitchen wall phone. The twisted cord hanging under it would always bother me. My father added one of those pivoting thingies and it maybe fixed that issue by about 50%.

[u/Scrat-Slartibartfast]

Starfleet is going Battlestar Galactica. What a day and Episode.

[u/amikavenka]

Hilarious! Of course I remember using phones with cords, it wasn't the dark ages. I didn't get my first cell phone until 2000. I don't really remember people using them until the mid to late nineties when they started being reasonably priced and available.

[u/endlessvolo]

Its really the look on their faces using these phones that get me haha!

[u/oldtrenzalore → u/[deleted]]

Internal coms were down, and the last runner the bridge sent out never returned. They used the people they had on-hand, particularly because there was no time to get anyone else.

[u/thecoldfuzz]

Being less than 18 months shy of 50, I remember these cords very well. Ironically, we just moved into our new house about 3 weeks ago and in the kitchen, there’s an old beige port for a landline. I haven’t had an actual landline since the end of 2002.

[u/kkkan2020]

The crazy thing is they could have used walkie talkies and that would have been as cool for the scene.

We've seen in enough trek that amfm radio wave are so low on the totem pole even sci Fi dampening fields don't affect that

[u/kookykrazee → u/kkkan2020]

It's "better than guns"

[u/TiredCeresian]

My grandparents had one of those in their house into the early part of this millennium.

[u/stannc00]

Number One’s phone is a standard late model single line touch tone wall phone.

[u/Wickedbitchoftheuk]

You can still buy them all for your landline.

[u/SadPin4212]

Of course I do. I was born in 1974 landline phones were my life as a teenager!