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Hi Tiberry,
Regarding Item6: No Fuses....
Of course by the 23rd Century there's no fuses! They've all been replaced by hi-tec circuit-breaker thingies that sort of "boink" out. And there's none of this groping around in the sudden dark banging your knee off the table while you find a torch remember that you meant to replace the batteries last Michaelmass, grope your way to the fusebox bang your head on the top of the fusebox cupboard door and finally push the little button back in. Naahh.... All you do now is "Reverse the Polarity", and the little circuit-breaker buttons just "Boink" back in.
Of course, the lack of banging into stuff in the dark had side effects... By the 23rd Century bones were evolving weaker because of the lack of being banged. The solution? No seatbelts of course! Being flung across the bridge every time the Klingons tok a piss in your direction kind of replaced stumbling around your house in the dark looking for torches batteries and fusewire.
Of course having these circuit breakers that "Boink" in and out is the core of Federation technology - and of neccessity it's best kept secret. Forget Warp Drive, Transwarp Phaser Cannons & stuff. Just how long do you think the Borg would have taken to come up with a "Boink-Inhibitor" if they knew about it!!!?
To protect the secret, the Federation went for the Orwellian 1984 solution and ripped the page with the word "Boink" out of every dictionary in existence! If the word is destroyed then the secret's safe. Unfortunately this had a couple of unfortunate side effects... It's the reason no one in Star-Trek ever gets a Bonk... And you can forget any chance of ever seeing Tasha-Yar and T'Pol using a double-ended Bong.
Mike.
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