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Yeah TNG pilot literally has a character go "Oh you've never been on one of these Galaxy class ships" to Riker, after which she shows that you can ask directions from the computer. And then helpful arrows start blinking to direct Riker to the holodeck. (I don't know if those guiding lights are ever seen again in the canon. Might be, I'm too lazy to find out rn.)
Majel Barrett sounded so young, I just watched that episode a couple of days ago.
One episode of Voyager made me giggle a bit. It's a ship with "bio-neural circuitry". One cold open, there's some phenomena they want to look at, so Chakotay tells Seven who then assigns an ensign to take a pad to B'elanna in engineering with the turbolift, and then B'elanna sends a "power requisition" through another person, via a pad, to the theoretical physicist somewhere in the bowels of the ship, who then has a bit of a chat with the person delivering the pad and then enters the changes into his work station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ud8HJgUoQs
I get that with ships that complex, you might have people at different points verifying the commands, so that it's not just automated, but since they're all connected, what's the point of physically walking the pads there?
And that episode aired in 2000.
In what I suspect was an unintentional callback, there's an episode of Strange New Worlds where the computer guides someone as well. No arrows this time, it just blinks the hall lights in a pattern.
Huh. Nice.
I'm gonna get around to it after I finish TNG rewatch.
And it wasn't arrows on TNg either, same the blinking lights