I also miss professionals exploring space, solving problems with science and diplomacy, engaged in intriguing stories that explored the complex moral and ethical issues of the day instead of just blowing shit up all the time and with some superficial lip-service pandering to certain social issues just to appease fans but without much more lasting presence than mere tokenism and self back-patting for the effort.
It was funny when that happened in an episode of VOY when Janeway ordered a coffee, and then the mug materialized a few seconds later because the replicators were malfunctioning.
He said some fucked up things sometimes. He also had some great one-liners. I remember in the Augment episode, he was arguing with Aron Soong who yelled something like, “How can you say my work was misguided and too ambitious?” And Phlox incredulously replied, “Because I can read.” It was devastating.
This was, like, 6 years later. Also shown in TV low-res 480p instead of big-screen film resolution. Or 1080p— I don’t know if TPB got the 4K treatment.