Mining ships can be automated and maybe an escape pod or runabout
I always saw it as serious over compensation for lacking in other areas, you know, like an original plot![]()
Open display of personal weapons might be purely symbolic, too. Other "alternative timelines" do it a lot...
Even this could be used against the operator of the ship. Think of it, you wouldn't need to blow up the enemy ship with firepower, all you'd have to do is try and hack it and it would blow it's self up.THen you have a problem. However I would guess that a sort of dead man's handle program could be hard-wired to cause a self-destruct in the event of tampering.
And in The Managerie, the entire TOS Enterprise was basically a drone.Two of the three parts of the Prometheus were effectively drones ...
Or start making their own decisions? If an automated ship is to perform many of the same missions as the crewed ship, the auto-ship would have to have a certain level of sapience.What happens when the automated ships are hacked?
Robotic dilithium transports, OTOH, might still tempt the bold and the greedy.
The idea of separating out huge parts of the ship is kind of silly to me. It makes much more sense to have automated detachable parts that are just mobile weapons platforms.
I suppose when you watch Star Trek you have to drink the production cool-aid that the most effective way to wage war is to use a lot of kilometer long barely maneuverable high surface area art-deco pieces with the most vulnerable areas jutting out on the sides and the command center directly on the surface.
There's no reason not to have it automated, if a raiding party can somehow get aboard and get hold of usable command codes they can control the ship whether or not it's automated. If *waves hand* designing your warships around dragging your living areas around with your combat units is a good idea, the Vengeance makes perfect sense.
"Pirates of Orion" leaves many questions open about the nature, actions and fate of the Huron crew. Which is only understandable, as the cartoon cannot show the pirates doing the logical thing and slaughtering the poor folks; the camera looks away during the actual encounter with the raiders.
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