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    The years of research and development were spent making sure it didn’t end up in self-aware megalomaniacal computer storage

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      Not believable. Starfleet trying to fix glaring issues with their technology in an attempt to prevent those issues from happening in the future? They could never!

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        When they refit the Enterprise-E after fighting Shinzon, they gave the captain’s chair a seatbelt.

        It happens.

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          How is the seatbelt supposed to work when the ship activates its Pegasus-style phasing-cloaking device?

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      Actually the years were spent converting Moriarty’s holomatrix to the EMH. It explains his bedside manner perfectly.

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      This 100%. In Star Trek, it’s easy to make intelligent life by accident: Badgey, Exo-Comps, Lore, Wesley’s unnamed nanites. The hard part is keeping them from taking over the ship and killing all the organics.