Star Trek is coming back to theaters soon, and I’ve been watching Season 1 of Star Trek: TNG while running.

It got me thinking. I know it’s a show, and they have to fit their episodes into a model, but wouldn’t there be programmers on the Enterprise? I’d hope by 2520, or whenever it’s set, that programming, and IT, would be more of an engineering discipline, but wouldn’t there be a need on a starship for some IT work? Some bugs would crop up, someone to monitor things, make sure data was intact.

Or at least some BI folks. After all they’re gathering data constantly, wouldn’t there be a need for someone to help work with that data? Wouldn't there be someone that they'd call to help with analyzing things from a data perspective. Besides Data, I mean.

I can see it now:

Wanted: BI Analyst, Galactic class starship Enterprise. Must be able to interpolate all types of alien data patterns, no aversions to non-human life forms and must like working with children.