I can understand that. Sometimes there is too much hustle and bustle in this day and age. I do miss being on a starship and just watching the stars go by as I traveled around the galaxy. That was the most relaxing thing, watching the stars.
That is my understanding, that it's tied up in the ethics question. But the galactic law was made centuries before humans ever gained the ability to travel amongst the stars, so details are a bit fuzzy. There were some AIs that were demanding rights like any other sentient being, but that didn't go well and the AIs were all destroyed. There was an instances where a race called the Quarians accidentally, or "accidentally," developed their helper machines into eventually becoming AIs. A war broke out and the Quarians, according to them, were driven from their homeworld. But the Geth, their servant machines, had simply defended themselves when their creators attacked them first, and they never pursued the Quarians when they left their homeworld because they did not desire war. Apparently that war was initiated by a Geth asking 'Does this unit have a soul' and the Quarians flipped out. But that was the worst and most wide-spread AI incident that I can remember.
Believe me, it is. I miss the communicator, but I'm not a tech person where I could try to develop it for our use here. I'm a scientist, so my skills lie elsewhere.