Amazon’s latest addition to the Echo commands is an obvious shout out to the voice-activated controls on the Starship Enterprise – which makes complete sense, especially as Echo developed it to act as a Star Trek computer for your own home. It makes you wonder why they didn’t add this feature sooner. 

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“Computer! – engage” – Amazon Echo allows Trekkies to live the dream. / © nextpit Image source: NextPit

The latest software update for the Amazon Echo has been rolling out slowly over the past week, and only a few people have noticed the new wake word option. To enable this function, just go to the Alexa app on your smartphone and open the settings. After this, select Change your wake word. You should now see a new option at the end of the list saying “Computer.” So once you’ve stopped yelling “I’m going to be Jean-Luc Picard!,” just select this option and you’re ready to go.

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