Star Trek memes and shitposts
Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
Top Scene: S1E05: Babel
Bottom Scene: S1E06: Captive Pursuit
The Federation has all the best practices:
Single points of failure everywhere
weak security controls
poor scalability on computer systems
seemingly no thought of safety when designing things
centralization of all critical functions
O'Brian has a rant from DS9 about the backups having backups on federation ships.
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 the whole franchise. It seems like a pretty big problem to have a central point of failure that massive.
Ok fair but the main computer is massive so I guess it balances out?
I'm going to have to find that episode, I remember some talk about spares in that one too.
And yet they all fail.
Don't forget the rocks built into every console
The importance of having a whitelist instead of a blacklist.
Star Trek has security imaginable. It isn't even specific to the federation.
"Ask a follow-up question!
Between the episodes the computer has received the ChatGPT 5.0 upgrade.
"Good catch- 'Deep Space Nine' does have forty seven 'e's in the name"
The double 'e' just after the second 'a' is what trips most people up!