It seems pretty obvious to me that we should be able to reuse a PADD. In the trek universe, they were like the tablet computers we use today. Obviously a tablet today can be used for many things and the data on it can be wiped and rewritten.
It's basically canon that you can't reuse padds - I mean, why else would we see several of them stacked on tables of commanding officers otherwise?
If you could reuse them, surely Captain Picard could just use a single padd all day and wouldn't need to get padds handed to him from other crew members?
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Of course it's silly. But you could just as well ask why we refine dilithium and buy gear with it, instead of the dilithium refinement being done by Federation specialists for that task and our gear being provided by Starfleet (or the KDF, or the Republic).
Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
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I know what you mean. I guess I am just being hopeful. It feels more and more like this is just another MMO with a Trek skin tossed on it.
It's basically canon that you can't reuse padds - I mean, why else would we see several of them stacked on tables of commanding officers otherwise?
If you could reuse them, surely Captain Picard could just use a single padd all day and wouldn't need to get padds handed to him from other crew members?
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Of course it's silly. But you could just as well ask why we refine dilithium and buy gear with it, instead of the dilithium refinement being done by Federation specialists for that task and our gear being provided by Starfleet (or the KDF, or the Republic).