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Or even the brig, they don't track who is or isn't on the ship, they take incredibly detailed bioscans and archive them whenever you use a transporter or even get a tricorder pointed at you, it's a crazy mix. It implies a Byzantine history of civil liberties laws and precedents
January 18, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Or even the brig, they don't track who is or isn't on the ship, they take incredibly detailed bioscans and archive them whenever you use a transporter or even get a tricorder pointed at you, it's a crazy mix. It implies a Byzantine history of civil liberties laws and precedents
I actually am fascinated by the implications of the way the various shows over the years have portrayed privacy and surveillance in the federation. There's all this incredibly invasive stuff but also so much stuff they don't do. Like, they don't have video surveillance in the halls...
January 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
I actually am fascinated by the implications of the way the various shows over the years have portrayed privacy and surveillance in the federation. There's all this incredibly invasive stuff but also so much stuff they don't do. Like, they don't have video surveillance in the halls...
Yeah, I had an economics professor who liked to say that we can't really understand capitalism until we understand that 80% of what corporations do is light money on fire and then throw it over a cliff. It's the 20% that isn't wasted that fuels the whole system.
January 30, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Yeah, I had an economics professor who liked to say that we can't really understand capitalism until we understand that 80% of what corporations do is light money on fire and then throw it over a cliff. It's the 20% that isn't wasted that fuels the whole system.