The reason for why thats possible in StarTrek is pretty simple... P = NP. Heres the evidence: There are no unbreakable cyphers in Startrek, it's merely a matte

The reason for why thats possible in StarTrek is pretty simple... P = NP. Heres the evidence: There are no unbreakable cyphers in Startrek, it's merely a matter of time or Datas smarts until whatever species of the weeks encrypted message is broken. Thus, most optimisation and search problems are easily solvable in their universe including automatic program synthesis.