There’s also an argument that if you’ve the technical know-how to dink around the Windows registry and make all kinds of tweaks, you’ve the know-how to install Linux, or at least, the ability to figure out how to manage it.

At the same time, it seems to be overstepping a bit to be classifying it as equal in severity as CSAM and terroristic content. People presumably aren’t being choked to death in the video.

It’s not wrong to think of it that way, but at the same time, there’s a very good question of why you want a model capable of creative writing summarising your news to begin with.

It’s basically like an overstuffed kitchen gadget.

Dr. Pulaski offered to replace his eyes with ones that wouldn’t give him a migraine, but he turned them down, because their capabilities weren’t as superhumanly good as his visor, back in TNG’s S2.

In theory, they do, but the US not only doesn’t recognise the authority of the ICC, they have provisions for a military invasion of the Hague/Netherlands if a member of the US armed forces is tried in the ICC.

They’ve also had decades of experience to back them up. They’re not just a newly spun-up agency who’s been given a multi-billion dollar budget.

And this was with war-capable vessels in the most hierarchical type of organization. Can you imagine what a shit-show the non-Starfleet federation is?

Probably depends a bit. Starfleet is not the only organisation with their own ships. We know a lot of alien worlds maintain their own vessels, like the Medusans.

Or chicken breasts. That’s how you end up a greentext.

A transporter trace might not have existed to begin with, and depending on how the disease acted, any old traces might have been lost.

For example, if she had an illness that only started presenting itself long after she caught it, like Tholian shingles. There may no longer be a healthy trace to pull from, or the disease caused damage that a backup cannot sufficiently repair.

We do know that some health conditions generally preclude transport. It’s not very healthy for foetuses to be transported. Voyager did it, and the baby had to spend several days in ICU to make sure that being transported didn’t mangle their neurochemistry, which would suggest that’s also something a transporter cannot readily fix.

The entire point of a backup is to overwrite and replace bad data, though. If a backup was kept, it would logically follow that it would be possible to overwrite the damaged parts of the pattern, since we know that transports can succeed even if a portion if the pattern is lost.

Geordi specigically brings up it being impossible to materialise Franklin because his pattern had degraded too much, not that it was degraded at all, and would suggest that there’s a threshold before repairs are no longer possible.

Episodes like Threshold and that one where the Enterprise crew turn into children come to mind. The latter actually involves transporters.

They don’t usually revert the crew using the backup data, though. They just program it to make changes to their bodies, like removing things. It wouldn’t be any stranger than removing an alien pathogen.

The backup data, I think was only used for Pulaski when she got the ageing disease (where it might have been a reference pattern to correct errors, and they had to actually compare with a known good genome), and for Tuvix.

We do also know that a bad transport can’t just be retried either. The Motion Picture had a transport go wrong, and Starbase One couldn’t just restart the transport with backup data, or repair what they got back. Similarly, Scotty couldn’t just load up Franklin’s backup from the Jenolan’s computers and transport him in either.

It would be interesting what kind of effects this might have on the mice, since they would be used to mouse estrous cycles, rather than human ones.

Managed Democracy was supposed to be satire.

Patterns might be portable on storage devices, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cross-platform, especially cross-species/technology, or maybe it would require a technical specialist to convert the pattern between systems.

At least on this front, Star Trek doesn’t tend to have that much of an issue crossing between platforms. The only time problems seem to rear their head is when another completely different computing paradigm comes into play (like using biochemical computers instead of electrical).

Otherwise, there doesn’t seem to be anything technically preventing you from hooking up your Federation computers to a Cardassian mining station and have everything work more or less okay.

Isn’t Copilot basically an OpenAI GPT interface?

At the very least, we know that they’re chemically inert, but the current school of thought is that they might cause trouble as a result of that, by physically obstructing things, even if they don’t otherwise cause problems.

At some point, though, it seems a little unreasonable, when there’s enough ambiguity that the computer has 37 separate presets for tomato soup.

It’d be like going to a coffee shop and adamantly demanding “coffee”, and then being annoyed that the barista can’t magically intuit what it is that you exactly want.

Presumably the patterns are not easily interchangeable/distributable - different file formats, different scanner resolution, maybe different output options (canonically some materials are more difficult to replicate than others, so might require a specialized replicator). Quark’s replicator, being Ferengi, is probably proprietary and requires purchasing new patterns only from the original manufacturer to increase the variety.

They are, it just takes time to update, since it gets sent over whenever the computer gets updated. That’s why Tom Paris was annoyed that the Voyager’s replicator didn’t have his preferred tomato soup ready. It was scheduled to be loaded onto the computers on Tuesday.

You can write the pattern yourself, but it is easy to get them wrong (Janeway managed to have it consistently produce charcoal).

Now these errors are for the most part irrelevant in most applications, because food for example is still very edible and nutritious even if it is not absolutely 100% as good as the original, same goes for most spare ship parts and such.

Star Trek’s replicators also modify the food, which may matter more than small-scale errors. They specifically create a copy of the food that is deliberately nutritionally tailored for your specific dietary needs, and to remove poisonous substances within it.

Those errors tend to be more of a problem for big complex molecules like DNA, or sophisticated things like computer chips.

At the same time, she is also a public figure. If they had treated her well, they would have less of a leg to stand on. Whereas mistreating her just raises the question that if they are treating a relatively known public figure in that way, what happens to the less-known people, who don’t have as much of a platform to speak out on.