Comment on Cardassian Security Priorities

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is a episode of Star Trek Voyager where some space pirates steal the main computer.

  The concept of entire space stations and starships ships being dependent on a single main computer is pretty common across all whole franchise. It seems like a pretty big problem to have a central point of failure that massive.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok fair but the main computer is massive so I guess it balances out?

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      • engineers in Star Trek, probably

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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m going to have to find that episode, I remember some talk about spares in that one too.

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And yet they all fail.

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