Say something positive about your least favorite Trek movie.

Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies I-X' started by Mage, Apr 8, 2019.

  1. Tenacity

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    Not at all, Kirk was famous for his ability to destroy robots/AI's with simple word games.
     
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  2. Discofan

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    That only shows our ignorance back then, thinking that something like that was even possible. Now we know better. You have about as much chance to destroy an AI with a word game as you have to stop a charging elephant with your breath.
     
  3. Tenacity

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    Since we've never produced a actual AI, your statement would be hard to support.
     
  4. Discofan

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    Nemesis: At least they didn't show Worf naked...
     
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    The AIs we have now, can't be defeated with word games, why would AIs in the future be so ill-conceived that they would?

    The idea of an AI that could be defeated by words makes no more sense than that of a person that could be defeated by words. It's childishly simplistic. Their only excuse back then if that a computer was something mysterious that most people had never used or seen used. It's was the stuff of legend.
     
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    "They really put a lot of work into those lens flare effects."
     
  7. Discofan

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    2009?
     
  8. JonnyQuest037

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    We had one 18 years ago.
     
  9. Discofan

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    I think there are quite a few movies that were inspired by this one.
     
  10. Kor

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    The computers Kirk talked to death were not true AI. They were just programmed with specific directives, and not designed to really reason, develop further intelligence, etc.

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  11. Discofan

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    Plus they all included a serious design flaw, the inaptitude to reject a question that they couldn't solve.

    But TOS wasn't unique in that respect. In "The Prisoner" the hero destroys a computer by asking "What?"

    In "The Avengers" a series from the 1960s, John Steed, just tells the computer to self-destruct (it was worth a try I guess).
     
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  13. Discofan

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    After watching the 2009 movie, I learned more about movie mistakes related to the franchise.
     
  15. JonnyQuest037

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    How so? Can you expand on this thought a bit?
     
  16. Discofan

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    "Nemesis" happens to be the nemesis of the franchise, which is a funny coincidence!
     
  17. Ryan Thomas Riddle

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    Star Trek Nemesis

    The end credits.
     
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  18. Discofan

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    I never watched it in a movie theater (and therefore saved the money.:D)
     
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    I'm positive I will never see it again?

    or, I walked out in time to actually get a refund on my ticket, pick up my ladyfriend, and drive across town to an art theatre showing of "You Only Live Twice"?