this part advertises exactly which services are offered in that particular house of good repute
like a program hanky code
…hacky code
well, it’s both. advertisement and hanky code.
like. if tron sees that little red plus sign second-from-the-bottom, he knows that Janeway here is willing to make him bit-shift thirty-two times but erase his memory of it every time but not totally overwrite the data so he’ll have little weird memory aftershocks of it for days
if he wants to go in here ASKING for that, he’s just gotta adjust part of his own circuitry to show off that symbol
