Star Trek: 11 Incredible New Technologies That Were Immediately ABANDONED

5. Holo-Commuincators

For this entry, we are talking about the specific type of holo-communicators that were featured on Deep Space Nine, which at least projected an image that didn't flicker every five seconds. Honestly, for Discovery and Picard, we're still unsure what happened. The USS Defiant was able to project a sustained, seemingly solid image. 

Both the Discovery and La Sirena struggled to project images more stable than a CD player trying its best in the boot of a '90s-era car. Play, bump, skip, repeat.

In Deep Space Nine, the tech at least projected an image that didn't flicker every five seconds. This proved handy for face-to-face run-ins with former security chiefs, and also essential for allowing courtroom dealings with Admirals back at Starfleet.

The main issue with this technology was, at least in the case of the USS Defiant, it took up a sizable portion of the bridge. Whether it was the captain himself, or a beleaguered Miles O'Brien, the tech was stripped before the end of the show's fifth season, never to be mentioned again.