Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

[Rabulias]

Zero moving parts.

No visible moving parts...

 

[Ryujin]

No visible moving parts...

Curse those damned Ancients and their rings!

 

[James Gasik]

Speaking of ancient technology, Pelia's collection puts Kivas Fajo's to shame, lol.

 

[pukunui]

That was another fantastic episode with a bit of a hard lesson for young Kirk!

 

[James Gasik]

I admit, I was expecting this to be an early appearance of The Doomsday Machine, given the "urban legends" about it. Early human space programs were really efficient in the Trek universe apparently, thinking of this thing and the Botany Bay. Not sure if we can count V'Ger or Nomad though.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Keep in mind that the sort of structures that we're discussing, on Earth, don't have even basic mechanical functionality, let alone what the sort of Precursor stuff they have in Star Trek does.

That is an important thing. It's one challenge to have a building that "just" stands around, it's another one that also has to operate moving or electronical parts.

That said - you might also not need perfect maintenance. Maybe it's okay if your nanite repair system or cells do mutate occassionally. As long as stuff mostly keeps working as it was supposed to.
It is still a huge challenge, though. I think on a planet or at least in a star system it might be easier then with a space ship, because you're orbiting an energy source that will last millions to billions of years, and for a large part, the source is very stable in its energy output.
(Which is my "worst-case" for interstellar travel is that you travel in star systems, having some nice gas giants that maybe shield your planet in the habitable zone from asteroids, a nice star as power source. Nothing suitable for human lifetimes, however, travel time is measured in hundred thousands of generations.)

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I admit, I was expecting this to be an early appearance of The Doomsday Machine, given the "urban legends" about it. Early human space programs were really efficient in the Trek universe apparently, thinking of this thing and the Botany Bay. Not sure if we can count V'Ger or Nomad though.

There must be some unstable wormhole near the solar system that happens to catch these ships. Or maybe some alien interference. Maybe there is a non-prime-directive-guided Federation (or Empire) out there that's messing with astronauts and probes?

 

[Mort]

That was another fantastic episode with a bit of a hard lesson for young Kirk!

I like that part of it. But I hated the twist, mostly because it ended up being so completely meaningless.

 

[pukunui]

I like that part of it. But I hated the twist, mostly because it ended up being so completely meaningless.

I’m liking the mysteries this season. I wouldn’t say it was “completely meaningless”. They may revisit it later on. We don’t know!

 

[Morrus]

Empty “we can’t afford extras” Ship Syndrome again! I can’t unsee it now. They had to have the Chief Medical Officer operating one of the engines because he didn’t have anything important to do what with all those injured crew that got beamed aboard. Couldn’t they have splashed the cash for just one redshirt engineering officer to do that?