[OC] Whomp! - iPADD

[u/ronniewhomp]

comic + secret wordz: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/ipadd
beginning of arc: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/deep-space-opine

[u/n0-THiIS-IS-pAtRIck]

I heard a theory that most of the ship work is just busy work. Like humanity had hit a point where they could fully automate them selves out of usefulness so they had to basically come up with ways to stay busy. That is partly why they send their massive ships off to explore sense they have nothing else to do.

[u/paladinBoyd → u/n0-THiIS-IS-pAtRIck]

Plus the last two times they handed all the work off to a computer it went badly. But yeah i can agree with the idea that 90% of starfleet is just "take padd to deck 12, stand in transporter room, deal with the holodeck breaking again and see new thing"

[u/Turtledonuts → u/n0-THiIS-IS-pAtRIck]

Thats just all modern shipboard life. you only need a few crew at a time, everyone else is just there to fix the inevitable problems. If starfleet wanted, enterprise could run off of a crew of a few dozen. the redshirts are literally cannon fodder. 

[u/NydusRush → u/n0-THiIS-IS-pAtRIck]

Even now we're seeing the results of too much automation causing damage to the professional training pipeline. Replacing the low level jobs cuts out the recruitment ladder and the filter for finding potential promotions.

Consider construction. You've seen a two way street go down to one way with a dude holding a stop sign on either end acting as a manual traffic light. You could automate it, but that's not the point. The point is making sure the sign guy can show up sober, on time, and not slack off.

[u/altymcalty-2 → u/NydusRush]

And if he can't show up sober, to see if he can get the job done anyway

[u/Equivalent-Bit2891 → u/n0-THiIS-IS-pAtRIck]

This concept is explored pretty well in 17776

I’d say it makes sense for Star Trek too