If it bothers you enough, it's very easy to fix yourself--just name your ship at the beginning of any voyage that has a ship starting with "The". Easy-peasy.
It would also be nice if characters who were mechanical or holograms couldn't come down with biological diseases. I've seen Data come down with the pox a bunch of times.
That's nothing compared to the number of times my voyages have seen Armus water-skiing on the holodeck, or giving pottery lessons, or getting muscle strain from an energetic fencing match...
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Recapitulatory and reiterative...
</b>balky toilet<b>
</b>lost puppy<b>
</b>angry parakeet<b>
The </b> forces the text to non-bold, and the <b> restarts it for the remaining HTML. Then we get some really comical updates like:
"Navigation became difficult when the balky toilet entered an abnormal dark-matter nebula"
It's the little things that make me chuckle.
"99 years of proud service with pride for nearly a century."