These are people who think in terms of percentages and moving resource budgets around. It sounds techie but it’s middle management spreadsheet work. They have replicator tech but can’t automate shield power redistribution calculations for optimal survivability? 
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In actual tech history, the middle is the part that’s being automated away the fastest. If your job sounds like reroute this, recalibrate that, remodulate the other... yeah it’s going away
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Starships visions that sound like a realistic consequence of the tech assumptions don’t sound pleasant to live in. I don’t think I’d enjoy a Culture starship for example.
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What Star Trek lacks in imagination for mechanics of the crew, it makes up for imagination of places they visit and plots based upon said places. My 2c
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That part is definitely fun
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why do you think they got this so wrong?
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It’s been optimized for the constraints of the storytellers.
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Not to mention the fact that they've alleviated money, yet still play poker as their primary pass time. What in the world?
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