C'mon, now, they did pretty good, considering thay spent a long time recovering from the Third World War or Eugenics War or whatever it was called (varies by episode and series). Look at the original Enterprise with the steam pipes sticking out of the walls ... clearly Kirk's USS Enterprise is in the first generation of electrically powered starships. Imagine Kirk's previous ship, the USS Farragut ... red-shirt ensigns down in engineering shovelling tri-anthracite coal into the warp furnaces ...
But give credit where it's due. Inventions such as the Captain's log system's dramaticam, in itself, balance against the curious lack of circuit breakers on the bridge.