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Seriously. I want to know what kind of starship designer or half-baked engineer would have access to replication technlogy (actually fabrication technology, but that's another rant*) and didn't build it into every facet of the ship.

regenerating hullplating? cool. Regenerating critical structure? Awesome. Brig cells that seal off and have no exit because they're contained in six walls? klingons belt buckles need not apply. Need to isolate a contagion? yeah. Seal them off behind a bulkhead.

Intruders? make it so the only way you can move about the ship is your transporter system.

Fuel shortage? Well. you know you could have powered your ship with a singularity core, right? any old asteroid is fuel.

and you know what the best part is? all of that comes with the inherent ability to specialize. Analyze damage when regrowing hull and increase the hull plating thickness where you get hit. analyze wear and tear on components, and upgrade the ones that wear out the fastest. Do you spend your time sprinting from crisis to crisis? tweak the performance of the warp drive for sprints.

You need a new starship? fire a photon torpedo with a replication warhad into an asteroid. New base? bigger astroid.

*you want replicators? THIS IS HOW YOU GET REPLICATORS. replicators are things that make more of themselves. fabricators are things that make more of other things, and maybe also themselves.

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Per the technical manuals, there are large industrial replicators in the engineering areas. They don't have the detail to reproduce complex molecules like food, but they can manufacture large forms of homogenous materials like metals. If they have to make new hull plates, I assume they use the industrial replicators to manufacture the parts, then a cargo transporter to beam the part into its location, though it probably still needs human technicians to bolt it in.

The replicators are not built directly into the hull of the ship because they're delicate equipment.

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"My ship is saturated in replicators"

Star Trek: 😎

Stargate: 😱

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Miles O'Brien needs to suffer more, the gods Emissary decided, so he made sure that no other ship had access to this technology. Wait, scrap that - I said "no ship", forget that other word in between them...

Computer just post this entire log entry. Wait, no DELETE it, I meant DELETE it!!! Recall it back, dammit recall it back NOW!!!

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