If I was a character on Star Trek, I would be a subroutine of the ship's computer that redirects tasks to other subroutines. Written in the heyday before NP=P was proven to hold, the designers thought it negligible, yet fun, to make me run in EXPTIME. I therefore even try to redirect the task of redirecting tasks to other subroutines, each of which eventually pass the message to each of the 2,789,434,987 other daemons in the system. Usually the traffic/communication monitoring subroutine gets so fed up with these messages that it forgoes it's own tasks in order to do some redirecting itself. Thus, at any one time either I am listening in on romantic conversations throughout the ship, or I am
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