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.

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.