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Although they're falling out of use these days, both because they're not very environmentally friendly on account of being instant bird death-rays, and also because regular solar panels are cheap enough that it's not worth it to make a big thermosolar plant.

Why even use an LLM for that? That seems like the completely wrong use-case for an LLM.

Bridge market must be having a boom.

Not copyright, as much as if the book isn't precious, it's easier to do that, feed the loose pages into the scanner, and then get an intact one if you want it, compared to the additional expense of having to build and program a machine to carefully turn the pages and photograph what's inside, or the time it would need by comparison.

Just for comparison's sake, how does it compare to modern episodes? Are they still shot within the span of a single week?

Fairly certain that they're not supposed to be green.

Especially if they update and the entire computer is then broken, like with the recent bug where it would break particular SSDs.

I think we can accept that the premise is we've made astounding strides and there are still areas of improvement; I don't think that tarnishes the hopeful and utopian dream at the heart of Star Trek.

It doesn't, but it also shows that even in the future, they're not free from the foibles of being a person. Achieving and maintaining something like the Federation needs active, constant work. They can't just go bang, Federation, and be done with it for good. Constant vigilance is the price we must pay for our freedoms.

It's an angle that I'm honestly disappointed that hasn't been tackled yet, since it seems perfect for a Star Trek story. Early Picard seemed to be going that way, with former Borg drones being mistreated, and the Federation outlawing reproduction for inorganic beings, but then it veered off for the Season 3 plot.

There's a really juicy three-way conflict between people who think that the Federation is too soft to survive, those who think it's fine as it is, and those who think it doesn't go far enough, and should be expanded to cover more, that could easily come into play, and show how much work it took them to get and stay there.

Pink is, after all, not a colour of light. In which case, it is entirely reasonable for a pink unicorn to also be invisible.

Barnacle. Several times their body size, supposedly.

I'd also argue that part of it is also maintaining Starfleet values in extremis. Even if you don't have the institutional support of the rest of the Federation and they are against it, it's important to stand up for your moral beliefs.

It's supposed to be a time after humanity has dealt with all of the stupid in-fighting and conservative BS. It's supposed to be about a time when the drama doesn't come from inside the house. When humanity is exploring the stars, not having a moment.

Though they clearly haven't, even if they think so. For example, if you're not an organic humanoid, it's very much up in the air whether you'll be treated as a person, or as an inconvenience.

The Measure of a Man was constrained to apply to that one instance, in Data's case, and he had the Sutherland automatically assuming the worst of him and nearly comm itting mutiny. Both the ExoComps and the EMH suffer from people thinking they're malfunctioning and factory resetting/lobotomising them.

If you're in a war with the Federation, it's equally ambiguous whether they'll stick to their own rules of conflict. The moment they feel threatened, they'll do things like unleash a deadly bio-weapon/memetic-weapon against your species, start laying self-replicating mines, or just make plans to blow up your homeworld. At best, your fate is left to the whims of a handful of admirals and captains.

Even within the Federation, Admiral Satie was not a isolated instance. She only made two mistakes, in going up against an unusually accepting crew that would bat for one of their own, and losing her composure in front of another admiral. If she hadn't, her crusade against Romulans in Starfleet would have continued unabated.

The fact that she could start it would suggest that those attitudes exist and are underlying within Starfleet. At least, on a significant enough level that she wasn't treated as being unusually paranoid about a non-issue.