Your replicator is probably too small to replicate larger components, which would be a major inconvenience at best or a showstopper at worst. And industrial replicators are even harder to come by than starships.

Then there’s getting access to the replicator patterns for sensitive or dangerous components. Dilithium chambers, weapons, Mercassium composite for shield generators, etc. are classified by Starfleet.

Then there are substances that can’t be replicated, such as verterium cortenide for the warp coils. I don’t think it’s explicitly stated that VC can’t be replicated, but we know that Voyager had to find some to refit their warp coils, they couldn’t just replicate it. Also dilithium.

And finally, there’s antimatter. Building a starship won’t do you much good if you don’t have gas for the tank. Antimatter does not occur in large quantities in nature, and probably can’t be replicated (or at least not safely.) So you’d need some sort of industrial base to produce it, further complicating your plans.

My headcanon is that the ban on genetic engineering is mostly an Earth law, rather than a Federation law. Which makes sense if the reason for the law is Earth’s experience with augments, as Phlox points out that other species have used it without the same dire consequences. This jives with the fact that only humans living on Earth are ever depicted as being bound by the law. It’s not a perfect theory, but it does explain why Bashir’s father was imprisoned but the Darwin station researchers were not.

WTF were they expecting to happen?

Why Windows doesn’t have an ‘expert mode’ (2003)

For some reason this specific graphic has always been one of my favorite parts of this movie.

Edit: I love the internet sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94jIQm0YcCs

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To the boiler room of hell. Allll the way down.

You Linux users sure are a contentious people.

Fun fact: The Windows executable format is originally based on an old Unix executable format.

The Enterprise-B launch was attended by a gaggle of reporters and camera people.

I didn’t know it existed. I like it.

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…as opposed to whom?

As if US history began in 1945. /s

We’ve been deeper in debt, less literate, less equal, less patriotic, and the political system has been more broken. None of items the article brings up are actually new or unprecedented.

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The irony is that you’re the one failing to bring anything of substance to the discussion. For example, comments consisting solely of insults.

I’ll let you get in the last word.

The irony is almost palpable.