The computer can do all of that, including managing shields, it’s just slower, and has safety checks installed to prevent itself from unpowering or blacking out modules.
Human operators have a “chaos factor” and can do stupid things like diverting power from shields (down to 1%) to recharge the phaser banks just a bit faster, in-between enemy volleys.
At least, that’s what we want to tell ourselves to ensure that there’s still jobs aboard fully autonomous luxury gay communist spacefaring vessels ;)
The computer can do all of that, including managing shields, it’s just slower, and has safety checks installed to prevent itself from unpowering or blacking out modules.
Human operators have a “chaos factor” and can do stupid things like diverting power from shields (down to 1%) to recharge the phaser banks just a bit faster, in-between enemy volleys.
At least, that’s what we want to tell ourselves to ensure that there’s still jobs aboard fully autonomous luxury gay communist spacefaring vessels ;)