Imagine the M5 computer getting access to a replicator. the stargate cross over you didn't know you wanted.

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.

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

If they're connected into an array (which I'm pretty sure is part of what makes a replicator 'industrial',) then any single component of that array would be very easy to replace. You know the episode where they first encounter the borg and they pump the cube full of photon torpedos only for it to "regenerate"?

this is how the borg do that. (and lets be honest, they already have these systems on the ship, so any danger to a ship going rogue or somehow being used against them is still just as real.)

Clean the lenses cover with acetone. You're doing a public service keeping that lenses clean and crisp.

Anything can fly if you strap a big enough rocket to it.

Though I’m guessing that’s not what she meant.

Please tell me I’m not the only 90’s kid that air guitars to the 52k dialup.

Does anyone still use fax machines?

It’s important to note that fax machines aren’t point-to-point either. Your data is still passing through someone else’s switches (probably fewer hops, mind.) and then there’s the physical security on the other end to wonder about.

The last fax I saw was in high school and it was left out for any one to grab documents from. (Well. Inside the school library right near the librarians desk.)(she had a somewhat unearned reputation for being terrifying, so, you’re mileage might carry there.)

It all makes sense if you assume it was a bunch of grumpy old perverts making shit up and using god as a boogeyman.

Yeah. I guess that checks out.

I bet you could make lots of money introducing them to the copy machines that can also automatically scan and email documents…

Gallagher?

One is clearly the Antipope.

The real reason Cap Archer’s dad never got to see a warp five.

Bet he painted it red because that makes it go faster, too,

I bet it's all just a disguise and she's really a sneaky little twerp. gets into everything and has no regrets.

and gets away with it, with that face of hers.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can blame repugs for being nasty fascist bastards, and we can blame jeffries and his ilk for not doing enough to stop them.

White is considered traditional. At least by some corners of the internet. (I won’t judge unless it’s some absolute rot gut box wine, though.)

Cat Iron pans are the best pans.

“The Oppossum Possy rides again screeEeEeEEEEEeeee!!!!!!”

(lol. I’d join that biker gang,)

Such a use case would be a perseuscope.

There's a non-zero chance that Jeffries doesn't understand how bad this looks and was just thinking that going to it might make republicans more pliable.

There's a much larger chance that he a fucking collaborator.