Anyone feel a mobile hollow emitter coming
Portable holo emitter coming?
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It's more likely than before. Previously, Stamets might've believed Adira could see Grey but might've also thought (on some level) that Grey was their imaginary friend. Now that Culber, Saru, and Burnham have also seen Grey, they know he's out there. And they'll try to find a way to make him visible.
I figure that's going to be one of the things they deal with in season 4. The kelpian ship recognized Grey as a being of some sort, so there has to be a way to detect him.
Mobile Hollow Emitter that is also it's own Mini Anti-Grav drone!
This way, if Grey wants to go into tiny robot mode, he can pilot the drone, or transform his outter Holographic body into anything he wants =D.
This way, if Grey wants to go into tiny robot mode, he can pilot the drone, or transform his outter Holographic body into anything he wants =D.
The EMH could have been a horse if he wanted, although it took a bit of work. So he could have been a bumblebee, too...
His mobile emitter was based on tech that would be several centuries old in DSC S4, so there might be an off-the-shelf solution, really.
Timo Saloniemi
His mobile emitter was based on tech that would be several centuries old in DSC S4, so there might be an off-the-shelf solution, really.
Timo Saloniemi
The synth ban would be a problem for the Doctor. The ban lasted about 20 years or so.
I wonder how it may have affected him (if it did).
The Doctor being unique more or less with a distinguished Starfleet record/career could have been an exception during the synth ban... or he may have been taken outside Federation space by some of Voyager crew as a way to protect him (perhaps by admiral Janeway) until the ban could be lifted.
The La Sirena was full of EMH derivatives.
I do not see the issue with the Doctor.
Unless he was wildly recognized as a sentient lifetime , he was unlikely to be classified as a synth.
And if he was recognized as sentient, then that would open up ethical issues again.
Oooh... I forgot about the La Sirena EMH's - but they weren't necessarily fully sentient independent. Just bits and pieces of Rios really.
The Doctor was considered to be sentient by his crewmates of course. The Federation on the other hand may not have shared that perception (which is why they weren't ready to classify him as a person under the law, but they did give him the right to control his own works of art).
Knowing the writers, no progress on this issue was likely made in the 20 years since Voyager returned... although we don't know that entirely.
The EMH would be classified as an AI. The synths are AI as well. By most definitions, the Doctor would fall under the category of sentient AI... but the Federation at large may not have been ready to see the Doctor as fully sentient, and once they banned synths, they may have tabled that discussion to not negatively impact the Doctor so he could still freely move in the Federation.
To be fair, its a thin line.
The Synth ban was never considered an AI ban in PIC. Banning AIs would probably be like banning oxygen: the UFP can't survive without those. But a very specific sort of physical AI malfunctioned, and was banned because the cause could not be determined, and the potential for further mayhem was significant. When the cause did become evident, the ban was immediately dropped, there apparently being great demand for that technology, too.
Consider the Synths the 737MAX, and AIs aircraft in general...
Timo Saloniemi
Consider the Synths the 737MAX, and AIs aircraft in general...
Timo Saloniemi
They have portable holographic emitters, the tricomms emit holograms, so given the Doctor’s mobile emitter there’s no excuse forlacking that tech next season.
The weird thing is how the tricomms don’t function as personal shield emitters to produce holographic armor. But it’s also weird they don’t have programmable matter combat suits, and how the holodeck definitely changed Saru physiologically, not just superficially.
I think the real question is, will they upload Grey into a body (holographic or other) ala Picard, or will the body mind read Adira’s symbiot, as the holodeck did, putting a range limit on Grey? Mind transference should be an option, but I can see the writers ignoring that to create a captive situation story.
The weird thing is how the tricomms don’t function as personal shield emitters to produce holographic armor. But it’s also weird they don’t have programmable matter combat suits, and how the holodeck definitely changed Saru physiologically, not just superficially.
I think the real question is, will they upload Grey into a body (holographic or other) ala Picard, or will the body mind read Adira’s symbiot, as the holodeck did, putting a range limit on Grey? Mind transference should be an option, but I can see the writers ignoring that to create a captive situation story.
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