Yeah there do appear to be some limits, and I'm pretty sure they weren't like, common enough to be standard on all ships and what-not until TNG times, but there's a lot of stuff that contradicts the whole 'post-scarcity society' thing Trek has going on. And more generally, I've been working on a Trek AU fanfic for another fandom and realizing just how holey Trek worldbuilding is (particularly the medtech - the most we get on prosthetics/replacement limbs is like, mentions in two episodes of DS9). Meanwhile Star Wars is like 'here is the exact composition and history of bacta'.
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