And this was with war-capable vessels in the most hierarchical type of organization. Can you imagine what a shit-show the non-Starfleet federation is?

Probably depends a bit. Starfleet is not the only organisation with their own ships. We know a lot of alien worlds maintain their own vessels, like the Medusans.

A transporter trace might not have existed to begin with, and depending on how the disease acted, any old traces might have been lost.

For example, if she had an illness that only started presenting itself long after she caught it, like Tholian shingles. There may no longer be a healthy trace to pull from, or the disease caused damage that a backup cannot sufficiently repair.

We do know that some health conditions generally preclude transport. It’s not very healthy for foetuses to be transported. Voyager did it, and the baby had to spend several days in ICU to make sure that being transported didn’t mangle their neurochemistry, which would suggest that’s also something a transporter cannot readily fix.

The entire point of a backup is to overwrite and replace bad data, though. If a backup was kept, it would logically follow that it would be possible to overwrite the damaged parts of the pattern, since we know that transports can succeed even if a portion if the pattern is lost.

Geordi specigically brings up it being impossible to materialise Franklin because his pattern had degraded too much, not that it was degraded at all, and would suggest that there’s a threshold before repairs are no longer possible.

Episodes like Threshold and that one where the Enterprise crew turn into children come to mind. The latter actually involves transporters.

They don’t usually revert the crew using the backup data, though. They just program it to make changes to their bodies, like removing things. It wouldn’t be any stranger than removing an alien pathogen.

The backup data, I think was only used for Pulaski when she got the ageing disease (where it might have been a reference pattern to correct errors, and they had to actually compare with a known good genome), and for Tuvix.

We do also know that a bad transport can’t just be retried either. The Motion Picture had a transport go wrong, and Starbase One couldn’t just restart the transport with backup data, or repair what they got back. Similarly, Scotty couldn’t just load up Franklin’s backup from the Jenolan’s computers and transport him in either.

Better than a parrotfish, at least.

Distracted barramundi.

That sounds more like a comment about fish than a name for a horse.

Plants? The later galaxy-class starships had arboretums.

Someone could also get a splinter if they did woodworking or whittling as a hobby.

Or the subspace field massaged it for meter, similar to how it synchronised the crew, or made Ortegas refer to herself in the third person.

Patterns might be portable on storage devices, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cross-platform, especially cross-species/technology, or maybe it would require a technical specialist to convert the pattern between systems.

At least on this front, Star Trek doesn’t tend to have that much of an issue crossing between platforms. The only time problems seem to rear their head is when another completely different computing paradigm comes into play (like using biochemical computers instead of electrical).

Otherwise, there doesn’t seem to be anything technically preventing you from hooking up your Federation computers to a Cardassian mining station and have everything work more or less okay.

At some point, though, it seems a little unreasonable, when there’s enough ambiguity that the computer has 37 separate presets for tomato soup.

It’d be like going to a coffee shop and adamantly demanding “coffee”, and then being annoyed that the barista can’t magically intuit what it is that you exactly want.

Presumably the patterns are not easily interchangeable/distributable - different file formats, different scanner resolution, maybe different output options (canonically some materials are more difficult to replicate than others, so might require a specialized replicator). Quark’s replicator, being Ferengi, is probably proprietary and requires purchasing new patterns only from the original manufacturer to increase the variety.

They are, it just takes time to update, since it gets sent over whenever the computer gets updated. That’s why Tom Paris was annoyed that the Voyager’s replicator didn’t have his preferred tomato soup ready. It was scheduled to be loaded onto the computers on Tuesday.

You can write the pattern yourself, but it is easy to get them wrong (Janeway managed to have it consistently produce charcoal).

Now these errors are for the most part irrelevant in most applications, because food for example is still very edible and nutritious even if it is not absolutely 100% as good as the original, same goes for most spare ship parts and such.

Star Trek’s replicators also modify the food, which may matter more than small-scale errors. They specifically create a copy of the food that is deliberately nutritionally tailored for your specific dietary needs, and to remove poisonous substances within it.

Those errors tend to be more of a problem for big complex molecules like DNA, or sophisticated things like computer chips.

It would at least be a little more understandable, what with the whole aborting, terminating, or killing children before the parents to prevent zombies.

Brain and Limb.

Being able to just enter a partial command, and hit [up] to jump to prior commands that started in the same way in zsh is a godsend.

Conflict of Interest, maybe?

And it would probably be a bit weird for your friend to also be your medical practitioner.

At the same time, Yesterday’s Enterprise needs some context. It doesn’t work quite as well in a vacuum.

Like why it was such a big deal that Tasha Yar finding out she didn’t exist in another timeline, why the Klingon war is such a horrible development, and why the Enterprise was willing to put itself on the line to send them back to change history.

Plus it’s also unusually gory for TNG. A couple of people die in quite violent and horrible ways, and they could easily be misread as being the standard tone for the show, rather than the exception.

I personally found the first episode of Lower Decks to be a bit of a turn-off. It felt a bit too much like Star Trek Rick and Morty.

It was basically a computer screen in binocular form. Sulu also had one at his station sometimes.

What’s wrong with it? It’s very much a product of its time, but it’s still serviceable.

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.