Interesting oddity in 'Conspiracy' regarding the ENT D computer

[Holdfast]

Majel makes a great computer.

 

[Trekker4747]

At the time I thought this was the best episode to date - but it seemed to be written by someone completely unfamiliar with Star Trek. There are so many 'lines' that just don't fit within the Trek universe. It's completely inconsistent. And pretentious. But we loved it first time around - and I'd love the main plotline to be followed up someday... Did this ever occur in one of the novels?

I have no idea if the plotline was ever followed up in the novels, but at least that happened in this fanfic.

For the most part it was followed up on. We just never learned about it in the series. TPTB didn't think that "bugs" made for a worthy or credible adversary in the physical sense. So the bugs, more less, morphed into The Borg. If you want a connecting explanation we can say that the bugs are the "scouts" for The Borg to find species to exploit for their technology. (Back then The Borg were un-interested in species and simply interested in new technologies. It was my belief, until Voyager mucked it up, that it was their (The Borg's) encounter with the Enterprise that made them want to assimilate species since, for better or worse, that is kind of what The Federation does.

So The Borg encoutners the Enterprise and manages to aquire some personell in the process of snatching a piece of the Enterprise. The Borg, piqued with interest in these "humans" and not knowing what to do with them they simply add them to The Collective. Ooops. The Federation's, and humaity's, ideal of "seek out new life" gets intergrated into The Borg's hive mind and things get loss in translation and they simply "assimilate" species and mix them into "a one." (Which, again, in less extreme sense The Federation does on its own in the name of exploration and piece.)

This was my theory up to and through most of Voyager.... Until they mucked it all up with bullshit.

 

[MNM]

At the time I thought this was the best episode to date - but it seemed to be written by someone completely unfamiliar with Star Trek. There are so many 'lines' that just don't fit within the Trek universe. It's completely inconsistent. And pretentious. But we loved it first time around - and I'd love the main plotline to be followed up someday... Did this ever occur in one of the novels?

I have no idea if the plotline was ever followed up in the novels, but at least that happened in this fanfic.

It was. Some of the DS9 relaunch novels, it was a thread in the Mission Gamma books, and in Unity, Worlds of DS9: Trill and maybe one or two more, I forget right now.

 

[I am not Spock]

One of my favourite LCARS moments was in Voyager. In the ep 'Q2' Janeway asks for a coffee, and the computer snootily says 'Make it yourself!' I laughed so much! Of course, in this case, the computer was being affected by Q's son. But I do like it on the rare occasions where Majel gets to be a bit less formal as the computer. 'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' as said above, is another good one!

 

[Kelthaz]

Is this an example of Starfleet computer sentience, long before the EMH programme of the USS Voyager? Or did Starfleet program the Galaxy class starships with an artificial personality file? Not a criticism, just an observation.

None of the above. It's an example of a joke.

 

[Harvey]

One of my favourite LCARS moments was in Voyager. In the ep 'Q2' Janeway asks for a coffee, and the computer snootily says 'Make it yourself!' I laughed so much! Of course, in this case, the computer was being affected by Q's son. But I do like it on the rare occasions where Majel gets to be a bit less formal as the computer. 'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' as said above, is another good one!

"Last chance to be a hero, doctor."

I forget what episode that's from, but I still remember it.

 

[Trekker4747]

One of my favourite LCARS moments was in Voyager. In the ep 'Q2' Janeway asks for a coffee, and the computer snootily says 'Make it yourself!' I laughed so much! Of course, in this case, the computer was being affected by Q's son. But I do like it on the rare occasions where Majel gets to be a bit less formal as the computer. 'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' as said above, is another good one!

"Last chance to be a hero, doctor."

I forget what episode that's from, but I still remember it.

I think it's from the episode where the EMH is testing out the "Emergency Command Hologram" "dream program" he's given himself.

 

[Gepard]

^"Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy."

 

[MikeS]

What's odd about that one is that you'd think Burton would've pointed out to the director that the line made no sense when the scene was being filmed.

Why Burton? What would he have known or cared about technobabble? His involvement in Star Trek was less than a year old at that point...

Because he was a Star Trek fan?