Comment on Curious what your head canon explanation is
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Enterprise-D, being a giant showpiece ship had the most bleeding edge holodeck of the era. The holodeck uniquely incorporated a lot of TOS advanced alien technology, which Starfleet engineers mostly understood. Mostly. There were some hiccups.
The tech was refined and only in-house developed and vetted holotech was issued out following incidents such as Moriarty. It takes a lot longer to research and create from scratch than it does to plug in some alien tech or coding that you think you understand.
The EMH was not a janitor or menial laborer. It was a highly skilled holographic entity that was repurposed below its abilities. The repurposing was not a decision made to make use of the EMH’s abilities but out of spite by a jaded creator.
Also, whenever you notice something like that, a Q did it.
The Enterprise-D, being a giant showpiece ship had the most bleeding edge holodeck of the era. The holodeck uniquely incorporated a lot of TOS advanced alien technology, which Starfleet engineers mostly understood. Mostly. There were some hiccups.
So essentially they went to space stack-overflow and did some space cargo cult programming? Seems legit.
Space ChatGPT wrote it for them.
And messed up on several innocent looking, hard to figure out, and disastrous ways.
The first rule of programming club is: If it compiles, ship it!
What if it compiles but crashes later on due to memory leaks?
ship it!
Literally, in this case.
In the words of Stargate SG1: “You can’t just slap a US Air Force sticker on a death glider!”
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
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