For a brief while, it didn’t speak in a monotone after getting tuned up. Kirk hated it, and asked it revert to its usual voice or be scrapped.

Right in front of my salad?

I feel like people overblow the Elon Musk reference. Even putting aside the plot twist, it’s been nearly 200 years from now, and they had the whole nuclear apocalypse in the early 2000s, which would only further muddle things.

People today praise Thomas Edison, and he was not that much better in many respects.

It’s entirely reasonable for someone in the 23rd century to lose some of the details that we might have today.

You say that, but we seem to be at least on track to a better 2050 than they had.

We’ve not had a eugenics war, drug-controlled supersoldiers, nuclear conflagration, nor a mutant genocide campaign, and we may not get the second and fourth.

Don’t forget Humans with perfectly Human features, but aren’t human.

As is the lack of the shower cleaning itself and getting rid of the tiny bits that you missed along the way when you’re basically done.

Can’t have your notebook battery running flat mid-draw, now can you?

Could also be that reports reached a critical mass, and it was automatically taken down for human review.

:x is also an alternative to save and quit.

Equally valid for the facial expression you’d make upon finding that out.

Both, of course.

Cloudflare’s is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.

It is also not very useful if you don’t use a PC. Every time I look up a Cloudflare-gated site on my iPad, I usually have to jump through a few captchas before it will let me in, if it doesn’t decide to be a grump and decide to put you in a sisyphean cycle of captchas, constantly refreshing without end.

Or if you use some software. I have citation software that gets stuck in the loop because Elsevier puts their journals behind a Cloudflare wall, and when it pops up the prompt to prove you’re not a bot, just refreshes straight into another prompt.

I think a traditional “shuttle” wouldn’t be up to the task - you’d want a vessel with bunks and space to walk around, at the very least.

They can probably do it in a pinch. In Relics, Scotty is given a shuttle to roam around in, and it’s doubtful that the Enterprise would have given him one if it was something that would only be capable of short-range operation.

But normally, I’d imagine that you’d just rendezvous with a starship, who would take you the rest of the way, with or without the shuttle, which would get close enough, and then you’d either have another ship, or use another shuttle to get you the rest of the way.

Sort of like a car using a ferry.

EDIT: Is the Federation even adhering to the warp five speed limit anymore? I know it doesn’t get addressed after “Force of Nature”, but is there anything suggesting that the speed limit has been dropped completely by the 25th century?

Nothing explicit, though there’s behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.

On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn’t significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.

Plus the fault with the multitronic computer wasn’t really the multitronic mechanism that operated it. It was that Daystrom stuffed his neural engrams into it to try and make it sapient, which caused everything to go wrong, probably because it was loaded with everything in his head, including his desperation to make the multitronic computer work, and paranoia about his peers. A multitronic unit loaded with LCARS might not be that revolutionary, but would not have gone homicidal.

Though we never saw it get advanced into a whole computer system on its own, they did seem to get used for some things that needed mind-like complexity. Holograms use multitronics as part of the matrix, for example. So Daystrom might have been onto something, but was too obsessed in creating something that could supersede duotronics to properly explore the thing.

Plus the computer can figure out who is using it, and lock them out as necessary. “Hero Worship” has Data point out to a child that he couldn’t have blown up a starship by leaning on the console, because it can detect that, and not register the controls. And we know that there are ship functions that are keyed behind an authentication code, like the self-destruct system.

But he probably doesn’t need to explain that to Ralph, since it’d not be that relevant. What’d be more important in that moment to get him to stop causing trouble.

Can you? The only people who we’ve seen use that feature are people who would be the authority to do so anyway, like the Captain/First officer.

I really doubt the Vulcans would arm a bronze age civilization on a developing planet with muskets if they thought the Klingons might also do That.

If anything, I think that it might be more likely for the Vulcans to do such a thing. Don’t forget that they did interfere with human development a bunch, because they could not readily put them into their existing categories, out of concern for what might happen otherwise.

It does not seem unreasonable that under the same circumstances, they might find it logical to arm a bronze-age civilisation against an alien enemy.

In fairness I think the memetic virus was meant to stimulate individualism and perhaps general revolt in the Borg, and Picard and co didn’t think it would result in the collective simply purging entire cubes remotely just to keep the contagion contained

No, the virus was meant to exploit a fault in their visual programming to kill the Borg drones and wipe them out. The individuality came as an accidental side effect, when Hugh developed a taste of individuality after losing his connection to the Collective, and roamed around the Enterprise.

When they came to collect, the collective re-assimilated Hugh and also got the individuality he gained, which then led them to explode cubes.

Old trek was super “woke” and optimistic, I see new trek as too focused on war and it paints the future as though they never achieved luxury space communism free of scarcity

At least on that front, it seemed to be rather conditional. If you were not an organic humanoid, you had a much more difficult time.

Just look at Measure of a Man, and what Starfleet later tried to pull with Lal, or what happened on the Sutherland. Or the ExoComps. Or what happened to the deprecated EMH Mk. I units, and the Voyager’s EMH and his holonovel. Or the UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER crystal aliens. Or the Horta. Or Hugh.

I cannot imagine that the Federation would have ordered the developing a form of memetic virus that would telepathically spread amongst the Klingon population and wipe them all out when they were at war with the Empire.

But they did order it against the Borg, intending to use Hugh as a vector.

Especially when the person taking them literally mentions that they are prescribed.