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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name
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Bit of a mouthfull tbh. Starfleet probably went with 'worf' cos the surname field was 25 chars max
Centuries in the future and government is still using a 25 character maximum for string data. Actually yeah, that tracks.
So the isolinear chip stores a lot of data...
Hell, Enterprise D's 3 Core computers we suspect to hold ~483,840,000,000 TB to 3,870,720,000,000 TB depending on which canon reference you use.
They could store Worf's full name.
Yeah but then they have to fax it to corporate, and with such a long name, it's such a bother.....
It's not so much that the computers are incapable of storing it. Turns out the Starfleet records system just depends on a schema an intern implemented at the UN in 1997, and no one's had time to migrate it since then.
Had to make room for Riker’s porn folder.
And his music sheets for his trombone.
ZFS could manage that. You might have to split his name over a few files though :/
BTRFS and immutability might be better, given how unwieldy it is and how often it changes.