Ironically, I think the original bug would fall under the category of a glitch because it would have been a hardware failure, rather than a software issue.

If they needed more energy to grow food than to replicate it, replication would be so dirt-cheap that nothing would make any sense.

Why did you self censor by saying “dot”?

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And even if, for example, the Federation had such privacy laws, it should be pretty much impossible to hide on a Cardassian ship because you know they’re all about that surveillance state.

Choosing the price per-customer like that should be illegal.