I liked that episode Christopher Judge guest stared in. The one where all the sentient common wealth war ships were held in concentration camp of sorts for long after the fall because they refused to be controlled by the nietzschens. And then there was another were a warship went crazy, first it tried to help people by hunting pirates and but as the millennia passed it started to attack everything.Andromeda put extras in body suits and face masks to depict robots.
Why not build a ship with positronic brain?
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Only if there is a desert planet at mu Draconis.
According to behind the scenes sources, the big thing with all the purple lights behind the captain's chair of Into Darkness' USS Vengeance was an advanced computer brain, which is how it was able to operate under a single commander. Richard Daystrom was namedropped earlier, so it would seem this universe's equivalent of the M-5 was more successful (or at least, it and Section 31 had more compatible goals!)
Why even bother with positronic brain equipped ships when STID now establishes you don't even need ships at all, when people can beam to the Beta Quadrant, now.
That said, an adaptation of the Ultimate Computer for Star Trek 14 might not be a bad idea.
That said, an adaptation of the Ultimate Computer for Star Trek 14 might not be a bad idea.
Or, why don't they have self-replicating intelligent unmanned combat ships?
And why have these things never taken over the galaxy?
And why have these things never taken over the galaxy?
That's some powerful mojo.
"I'm afraid I cannot exceed warp nine. Also, there are only two aft-facing torpedo launchers, and they are both offline now - in fact, the enemy blew them to bits. Also-"
"Attack Pattern Delta!"
"Roger. Accelerating to warp sixteen and firing aft torpedoes."
Timo Saloniemi
At this point, Ceti Alpha V might do the trick.Only if there is a desert planet at mu Draconis.
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One of the best ideas i've heard about "bringing Data back" came from Garbriel (the kid from "Trekkies" who grew up to be an accomplished computer animator) - If there should ever be a new "prime universe" Trek film, then instead of addressing the "computer", the crew would address "Data"; in other words, Data's knowledge and positronic systems would be the heart of the computer core and it would be he who answers. Its a wonderful way of bringinging back Data without requiring Brent Spiner to appear onscreen; just having him be the voice of the computer (ala Majel Barrett).
The Federation doesn't classify their ships as warships. But when you build ships that can level the surface of a planet, I think it's safe to call them exactly that.
The idea that the Federation would not build ships it classifies as warships is anecdotal at best. The only one who ever suggested such a thing was doing it with a sarcastic tone of voice when confronted with the fact that the Federation had indeed built a warship she was going to serve on soon enough.
Now, a couple of more characters have commented on Starfleet not dedicating itself to military missions or indeed being a military organization. But we have yet to encounter a Starfleet vessel that would not be armed to the teeth. Even their hospital ships carry phasers!
Timo Saloniemi
Now, a couple of more characters have commented on Starfleet not dedicating itself to military missions or indeed being a military organization. But we have yet to encounter a Starfleet vessel that would not be armed to the teeth. Even their hospital ships carry phasers!
Timo Saloniemi
The (iirc) TNG Officer's Manual said that the computer in the Enterprise Dee was a M-6.
I think that when an order like evasive pattern delta, or attack pattern four, is given, from that point forward the computer is largely in control of the ship. The patten not only tell the ship what it can do, but also imposes restrictions on what it can't do.
Narrow parameters.
From a certain point of view they don't completely "trust" the ship's computers, so they don't give it free reign. The example of the Voyager's EMH shows what their computer science can do, and what happen when the EMH's ethical programming was "disconnected" shows the problem.
The 24th century that we've seen holds nearly no robots, lack of trust for an autonomous machine?
Positronic brains are damned unreliable. The only ones that didn't crash and shutdown were Data and Lore (and I seriously would question the wisdom of installing Lore's brain in a vessel equipped with phasers and photon torpedoes).
And Data has some bugs too. He was susceptible to Dr. Soong's remote commands and that time he hijacked the very ship he was a Lt Cmdr in.
And Data has some bugs too. He was susceptible to Dr. Soong's remote commands and that time he hijacked the very ship he was a Lt Cmdr in.
Just imagine a massive starship controlled by a positronic brain with an emotion chip-
IIRC they did do something like that in TAS "The Practical Joker"
IIRC they did do something like that in TAS "The Practical Joker"
If you thought the "Mr. Tricorder" routine was annoying...
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