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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @12:10AM
At this point, once you imagine everyday practical technology like this, there are applications for it that make you wonder why they wouldn't do this. For example, why not just make much of the ship interior be a single large holodeck, or a series of interconnecting holodecks. If engineering crew are always doing various routine maintenance of systems that need periodic maintenance, why not automate that? Why not a lot of small robots?
With today's self driving cars, it seems obvious that starships would be self driving in a similar way. Just give the order for where to go and forget it. If we try to imagine the Star Trek future from today's POV, it starts to get so wild that it could border on magic, at some level.
The very first holodeck episode was a holodeck malfunction episode, way back in the Animated Series when a holographic recreation room was introduced. By the Next Generation holodecks were still constantly breaking down and becoming lethally dangerous, and the AIs inside were prone to going insane. The technology wasn't mature enough yet to be reliable. But by Voyager there was a holographic doctor who was trusted with the health of the crew, and there were prototypes of fully holographic fully automated self flying ships. See for example Moriarty's control mechanism in the Next Generation, the holoship in Insurrection, the Prometheus prototype in Voyager. Prometheus was advanced enough to be completely computer controlled with holographic crew who could simply give the order, ship attack the Romulans.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 20 2017, @02:07PM
The Trek universe, as much as I enjoy it, is filled with inconsistencies. A few years ago I saw YouTube video with many back to back clips where the first clip said something and the next clip directly contradicted it. For example, is data waterproof.
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