A TNG episode was censored in the UK for about a decade too, where the character Data talks about the "Irish Reunification of 2024" as an example where terroris

A TNG episode was censored in the UK for about a decade too, where the character Data talks about the "Irish Reunification of 2024" as an example where terrorism as a strategy worked. JJTrek doesn't need to worry about censors there's nothing of substance in love triangles set in space. As for relying on tech deus-ex-machina TNG writers used to send off scripts to physics professors and have them fill in gaps about nanotechnology and other unknown late 80s technology. They were replaced in Voyager by studio cronies which is why everything is solved by "re-polarizing the deflector dish".