Comment by alganet

Comment by alganet 10 hours ago

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That is just not true.

Holoprogramming is a recurring theme in TNG and VOY. There's even a recurring character that is supposed to represent this role of specialized programmer, Reginald Barclay, among other one-ofs (such as Dr. Zimmerman).

> Picard says "Tea, earl grey, hot" and the computer instructs the replicator to create such a beverage. He doesn't even think about someone coding up a "tea" app - the computer is intelligent enough to know what he needs and controls the device to deliver.

You are clearly not versed in the ways of Star Trek. This notion is directly confronted in the classical scene of Lt. Paris asking the replicator for tomato soup in VOY, and getting super annoyed by the way it is programmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4EVXkfe0w

chasing0entropy 8 hours ago

There are several episodes showing characters creating hologram programs; it consists of them talking to the computer and describing different characteristics and behaviors of both objects and people.

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  • alganet 8 hours ago

    https://youtu.be/rh7AJ8AdyJY?t=257

    Here, classical programming done by Seven of Nine.

    She is typing into the computer, while she describes the issue:

    "The data stream degraded during transmission. Elements have been dislocated, rearranged. It's going to take some time to decompress the message to be arranged in the proper sequence."

    Later:

    https://youtu.be/rh7AJ8AdyJY?t=474

    "The algorithm is working, it's reconstructing the data block"

    She debugged the issue, programmed some shit, and that shit is working.

    ---

    These people are definitely not vibe coding.

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wrboyce 9 hours ago

I’m pretty sure there’s at least one instance of an alien race offering to program a local delicacy into the replicators too, also in VOY I think.

Doesn’t Neelix create some replicator programs as well? I want to say for Kes.

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  • alganet 9 hours ago

    I'm pretty sure Neelix is not familiar with replicators. It seems no one in the delta quadrant is.

    This is evidenced by both Neelix's and the Kazon surprise when the Voyager crew is able to replicate water.

    There is a catch in the first episode, which clearly shows replicator technology being employed by the sporocistians (it's how they beam down food to the Ocampa).

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gitprolinux 9 hours ago

I might add that in space dock, retrofitting the computer, at another time for example, the AI of the starship Discovery needed a reboot done by Micheal Burnham.

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