We need a serious discussion about power inequality on the Enterprise.

"0.1% of our ship's systems are using more than half of all newly-generated power. The greed of Stellar Cartography knows no bounds."

I always laugh at how life support represents a huge fraction of power. They can boost shields 20% from life support. Shields that protect them from gigantic weapons.

Meanwhile Apollo 13 astronauts survived for 3 days with no power and a tiny oxygen tank.
- Well you have to account for Riker's "dating" programs running on the Holodeck at all times due to his excessive privilege as an unelected official of the Enterprise. He gets away with it because he deemed it a critical life support system. That alone counts for half of the energy usage of life support.
- All those fires on the bridge every time they get hit use up a lot of oxygen.
- It’s called life support and not survive support though. Big difference between conserving as much energy as possible vs being able to freely do what you want without thought of concern.
- It is also funny how they never shut down the artificial gravity
- I'm guessing the replicators recycling the air and water are part of life support. Apollo 13 used pee bottles, a box of foam and some duct tape.

Tbh I never really liked that the captain has to tell the crew to do these things. You would think that a experienced crew would know what to do in certain situations.

But this is how naval ships, including submarines (which the Enterprise is modeled after), work. Captains give orders, crew follows them.
- Not really. In the US navy (for instance), crew takes the correct action pretty much automatically unless specifically ordered not to do so.
  
  If ships really worked the way they do in Star Trek we would have very few ships still floating. And it's not just ships - all forms of human organizing utterly depends on the people at the bottom doing the actual work making the real decisions on the fly. It's the only way anything about it becomes efficient at all - despite what the capitalists and their cronies in the media wants everyone to believe.
- I dont know, most functions on navy ships dont require constant and explicit input from the captain today either. To stick with trek: The captain sets a destination and speed, the crew makes it happen. He doesnt have to specify they should put dilithium crystals in the warp core, they know to do that stuff because it is part of the procedure.
  
  Similarly the common tactical maneuvers like evasive action, reinforcing shields where damage is coming in, or disabling enemy weapons should be automated or subject to the judgment of the tactical officer. Once the captain has ordered to engage, these things should be done "under the hood" like 95% of stuff that happens aboard.
In the second movie they literally had the Vulcan lady recite the existence of protocol regarding shield usage in certain situations, and one can assume it was specifically written so that the people operating the shields do not have to wait for one guy to resolve his "feels" about a situation before taking action to preserve the safety of the ship and crew.

This is your brain on centralized power, I guess - but it's nothing I didn't witness myself in the corporate world.