Currency in Star Trek?

[The Librarian]

^ It better be. The idea that there are no robots or robotic automation in-universe is utterly absurd. It would be as fantastical an element as the sound we hear in space. "No, I will not install this roomba or phaser-sweeper in the main shuttle bay. Now grab that laser-toothbrush and I'll see you in a week."

Actually, according to Riker the ship cleans itself.

 

[Arpy]

^ It better be. The idea that there are no robots or robotic automation in-universe is utterly absurd. It would be as fantastical an element as the sound we hear in space.

Given their technology it is unusual event, they certainly could have non-sentient robots if they choose too. My supposition is that Human society, and maybe the Federation in general, has a cultural aversion to robots. Similar to the cultural aversion to genetic engineering that run through future Human society.

Jim Kirk definitely had a problem with some types of computers, the servant never the master.

See, but that "aversion" is was a BS excuse to create a dark, "gray," direction for Bashir. Come to think of it, none of the Starfleet people could be normal. Dax was a weird Klingon fanatic, Sisko an alien demigod, and O'Brien the uber punching bag.

There already was genetic-engineering shown prominently in TNG's "Unnatural Selection". And no reason they all couldn't have been genetically engineered in one way or another as we all will be in real life.

The cultural aversion to robots too is silly if you mean they'd rather go without than reap the benefits of automation. Yeah, and Americans would rather pay $10 for a Big Mac. There aren't any robots on the Enterprise because the ship itself is one giant robot that cleans itself. Who wants a bunch of subsentient walking toasters crowding the halls with bucket and pale when a beam or nanites can clean the area in seconds?

But if you're saying that people would rather scrub the decks themselves...I don't care how many Khans or Cylons tried to take over: it isn't human nature to throw out the baby with the bathwater.