Every single time you use AI to create bespoke images or videos, you’re using a tremendous amount of power. And now, 38 years later, in a sneaky way, the Trek canon is addressing the one thing that TNG never quite nailed down: What’s the deal with the power drain? The just-released Strange New Worlds episode, “A Space Adventure Hour,” uses a rudimentary version of the holodeck to wax nostalgic about old-school Hollywood whodunnits, but also about the origin of Star Trek itself. In that episode, Pike tells Number One to have the old Enterprise chief engineer — a guy named Louvier, who we never see — to “Rip out the entire system. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams on Paramount+.