It�s just as important for techology to break down isn�t it?

Yeah. The technology is so good and so advanced that if it keeps working every week you seldom have stories.

It has to break down, you have to have enemies that could get behind your walls and destroy things and you need viruses that crop up in strange ways and screw up all the medical science. You need those devices for dramatic story telling.

It�s one of the Star Trek conventions that the engineer is going to fix everything, Scotty�s going to get that power at the last minute and Geordi�s going to come up with the techno whizz-bang solution. It�s just that�s one of the things that is Star Trek.