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Why aren't they using drones and more automation? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/risa@startrek.website
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I know this is how people in the 80s and 90 imagined the future and a lot of concepts were probably too far fetched for them.

BUT... why arent they using drones to explore planets? why are there not more drone-spaceships? why does enterprise need a crew to begin with? Why is there so little automation? Why so few uses of AI in general?

I am saying this as a star trek the next generation person. I'd also expect them to have full video and sensory streams of any surface mission teams.

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

a phaser is a WMD

I had no idea about this tbh they come of as very tame weapon, especially the whole stun setting part.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It can be used that way, sure, and the Very Civilized Starfleet uses them conservatively. But a beam weapon that is capable of disintegrating anything (unshielded) that it touches is crazy powerful. And those are only the hand phasers; we don't often see the phaser rifles, but holy heck. If phasers scale like projectile weapons do, a single phaser rifle would be capable of vaporizing entire buildings, tanks, aircraft.

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