It was the first episode of Voyager I ever watched, at a friend's recommendation. What a gift.

Not an answer to your question, but services like PeerTube use P2P.

Ruby port of @brie's solution:

puts ARGV[0].gsub(/(.)\1*/){|m|m[0]+m.size.to_s}

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish is one such language.

I'd also recommend Shellcheck which helps prevent many problems with shell scripts.

Might not meet your needs, but Nova kinda does that: https://nova.app/

I love the little sign that says "ENSIGN AT WORK" that Ransom is holding

There's a great podcast called "Surviving Y2K" that explores a bunch of these stories. People did a lot of wild stuff.