[rsynnott]

> Just shows how far certification requirement dropped by the time of TNG.

Well, see also the lifts; I’m pretty sure that over the course of the series the Enterprise alone had more catastrophic lift incidents than most _countries_ today have in like time. And the consoles which explode whenever anything happens. And the _bloody holodeck_. Clearly, at some point in the next century, some catastrophe kills off engineering as a discipline entirely.

[hef19898]

Next century? You, sir, are an optimist!