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4 - garden areas were shown in a few places, and any tech Trekkie can tell you that even schematics of early ships had such places.

Page seven showing the botany level

1701-D blueprints had a lot more, being a bigger ship.

For 3 they sort of did, but the entire show is stuck in a boomer mentality that video games are a kind of a meaningless drug or distraction unless it is chess or heavily chess coded and a symbol for masculine intelligence.

Whatever it is just games are magic because all you need is another human and time to discover new things and unfold a rich experience and both are in abundance on a starship journeying through space.

edit I appreciate the thorough response but if I were to write scifi the garden/small park space would be a part of virtually ever spacefaring civilizations spacecraft, for health (for humans even just seeing pictures of plants improves our health), for cultural and spiritual reasons, for a sense of home and rhythm.... There would be a thousand names for these spaces, maybe we humans would use "heart" or something like it to refer to that part of a spaceship but it would not be our idea, it would be highly unusual not to find analogs in other alien spacefaring species within their ships for the same reasons.

Additionally I would include as a scifi author the nuance and ethics around how pirates might board your ship and steal all your valuables but arbitrarily destroying the "heart" or garden even for pirates would be considered especially heinous as no matter who you are in space the thought of not being around plants, even if you are doomed to die or especially if you are, is kind of scarier than almost anything else if you are unfathomably far from home.

I don't know, call me weird or just a nature lover but I firmly believe having a "heart" to a deep space spaceship is just as important as having a faster than light drive.... which leads thematically into a natural justification for why shuttlecraft are capable of FTL travel but people still rely on big ships unlike say Star Wars where smaller ships are used for long distance tansportation just as much as big ones are.

It all ties back into the basic thematic fantasy of scifi that we can "leave earth and expand" is a twisted lie, we can only bring earth with us to new places, if we extract ourselves from earth truly, we die, we are not islands biologically.

In "Up the Long Ladder" some clones were made of him. He vaporized them.

They shouldn't have been made without his permission like that, but I also think there was definitely something skeevy about him killing them. There was a significant unaddressed issue here, and so I'd count this as "handling it poorly."

Not Thomas Riker - the clone from "Up The Long Ladder."

He doesn't kill Tom.

No its the one with the sex slave

And dont forget the one there archer was drugged into believing murdering babies is not fine...

It's well established that everyone wears universal translators. The weirdest thing is when they can seemingly turn other people's off at will and choose to speak Klingon aloud without it being translated.