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Because those aren't Replicators. They serve the same basic purpose (dispensing food), but they're not the "make almost anything from raw matter using lower-resolution transporter technology" Replicators that were in use a century later. Now, we don't know how the TOS food dispensers worked...

While the mission statement in the opening credits was broadly the same, Picard's Enterprise actually engaged in a wider range of missions - in Kirk's era, the Enterprise was very much a dedicated front-line explorer, one of many of its kind. The Enterprise-D performed some exploration missions...

Surely that's covered by the Instinct ability score (the animal equivalent of Education, used for problem solving, etc). Certainly Instinct and Pack (as described on page 69 of the rulebook, though Pack could be renamed Swarm or Hive in this instance, as appropriate) seem more appropriate for...

Not quite. As shown in the Director's Cut, one of the sentry guns ran out of ammo, and the other was about to when the oncoming swarm retreated. When they next attacked, they did so from a different direction, avoiding the sentry guns (which they had no way of knowing were ammo-less)

The Sulaco can go 24ly in two weeks, using technology that's nearly 60 years more recent than that of the Nostromo, as well as being a military craft presumably built and equipped for fast response (at least in comparison to a cargo hauler/ore refinery like the Nostromo).

Except that 3rd Officer would be 4th in command, traditionally (using civil aviation terminology, which seems appropriate given that the Nostromo is a civilian spacecraft). The second-in-command is the First Officer (after the Captain/Pilot in command), with the Second Officer and Third Officer...

Ah, right. In which case, and having reminded myself of the particulars, it might well be that Ripley is 4th in command after Dallas, Kane and Lambert, as those were the three crew who were off the ship while Ripley was in command (and Lambert's role as navigator seems sufficiently important...

There was a navigator - Lambert. Personally, I saw the Sulaco as primarily a transport, rather than a warship. Then again, just from the perspective of the movies, space does seem like a very empty place, with large concentrations of ships only at major space-ports like Gateway, and with that...