Flimsies

retrieves a printout.

Chief Petty Officer Garrison retrieves a printout.

A flimsy (plural flimsies) is a slang nickname for flimsiplast, a type of printed computer readout technology that was in use by Starfleet on Federation starships in the mid-23rd century. (TOS novel: The Entropy Effect, TOS episode: "The Cage")

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The full name of this material, flimsiplast, indicating a plastic-based material, was apparently shared by author Barbara Hambly from concurrent works in the Star Wars universe.

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As a paper analogue[]