That's so disappointing, but at least I know going into it now.
I feel like a key interview question for a writer/director/etc should be "are you a fan of star trek?" Like, there are a ton of hardcore trek fans out there. Sure some of them are writers and can do the characters justice.
Now that I think of it, I do really like that aspect of Quark's bar as a story tool. Since they were located on a station, anyone who's just passing through could be sitting at the bar.
His stories really helped humanize (gotta be a better for for that) the Ferengi. Like, yes they were cartoonishly greedy little jerks, but they also have individuality within their culture.
Ten Forward is just a relaxing environment. There are a few people who have uploaded ambient/atmospheric trek videos on youtube (usually something like "10 hours of the TNG warp core room"). There's a Ten Forward one I've put on in the background quite a few times.
I'm admittedly new, but I thought that was the difference between Hot and Active.
Active is for any activity, so comments on a 3y post are fair game. It's actually kind of a cool filter that offers the classic "forum" style that revives old posts, rather than the reddit style of "anything older than 12 hours is dead to everyone"
It's more time efficient, space efficient, and it allows people to have freedom of movement, which means that jobs won't tie everyone to the highest cost of living areas.
I think if someone went all out with making some sort of bizarre simulator game like this, people would play it. Like, don't even try to make it fun or add a story or anything, just make it as real as you can.
Jesus, that face is going to haunt me