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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    1 year ago

    See also: any time an AI has been given command of a vessel (except Data, and even then he caused problems a couple times).

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      “That was the stun setting. This is not. I can reduce this pumping station to a pile of debris.”

      —Data, the most sophisticated android in the federation, conducting diplomacy