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Why aren't they using drones and more automation?
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
I can't remember who said this in the show in Universe; maybe Janeway? But I think a similar question was posed, and the answer was that nobody would have anything to do if exploration was entirely automated. It's fun and exciting and gives people's lives meaning.
My headcanon is that many mundane things are automated, and we don't see them because they aren't plot-relevant.
They are mundane and automated until something goes wrong, then we get a holodeck episode.
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I hate that this was the first thing I thought of. :)