Deks wrote:
T'Girl wrote:
...robots are almost unknown in the 24th century federation, the ones we do see are oddities.
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We do know that Federation ships per early TNG have self-repair and self-cleaning systems |
The thing there is, it's made clear in TNG-DS9-VOY that starships are incapable of repairing themselves, and therefor don't engage in self repair.
Anything requiring even the smallest level of physical manipulation, is done "hands on" by a living being. How many times did we see people crawling through jeffries tubes to make small adjustment directly to equipment and replace small components?
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this alone implies pretty large implementation of automation as is
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Actually, just the opposite. The implication is that macro level physical automation is all but absent, "
cleaning itself" would seem to be the most the ship can do too itself.
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the writers could have used
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But they didn't.
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I can imagine Trek humans implementing vastly more advanced means of robotics ...
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But they didn't.
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As for what we saw in Voyager 'Author, Author' in the end with holograms working in a dilithium mining facility.
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Only because Starfleet could not figure out what to do with them, and it's unlikely that
more EMH mark ones were created (beyond the 600 plus existing) to be a large "automated " work force given Starfleet's overall displeasure with them.
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that's why the writers 'de-evolved' the show into 'current conditions set in SPACE' as time went on (they simply got extremely lazy).
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Where do you see any "de-evolution" at all? Starfleet/Federation never had a large robot contingent, that was subsequently removed as time went on.
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What we saw was writers being utterly stupid (as usual)
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No, it was them being consistent within the Trek universe that was created.
