Iwas surprised that there was no experimental life form on the Enterprise, not as sopisticted as Data but some basic robot that saved rears on occasion?
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...OTOH, it would have been fun to see how 22nd century engineers built androids with their left hand while doing something more worthwhile with their right, and how everybody complained how these things were bloody nuisances that had absolutely no practical value and would soon go out of fashion.
That would have been consistent with the rest of Trek, too, and the idea that our TOS heroes would take sophisticated androids on the stride and even build a few of their own.
There has long been an argument between using roughly human-shaped robots (so that they could do human tasks or operate machinery designed for humans) and using robots built to the shape required by their task (so that they would be more optimal). It's about as old and unresolvable as the argument between all space aliens being humans (because that's such a good shape) and none of them being (because humans are a gadawful compromise resulting from more or less random development processes)... And it seems that in Star Trek, both issues were settled, the first against the human shape, the second in favor of it.
Timo Saloniemi
That would have been consistent with the rest of Trek, too, and the idea that our TOS heroes would take sophisticated androids on the stride and even build a few of their own.
There has long been an argument between using roughly human-shaped robots (so that they could do human tasks or operate machinery designed for humans) and using robots built to the shape required by their task (so that they would be more optimal). It's about as old and unresolvable as the argument between all space aliens being humans (because that's such a good shape) and none of them being (because humans are a gadawful compromise resulting from more or less random development processes)... And it seems that in Star Trek, both issues were settled, the first against the human shape, the second in favor of it.
Timo Saloniemi
I'm glad they didn't. ENT was already a semi-VOY in it's first two seasons. And VOY was TNG-lite in my opinion. We didn't need any more evidence of a third go around at "The Next Generation."
I have a bad feeling that if ENT had included an artificial life form it would have been an R2D2 type character, to make it more prequel-y (you know, the past as far as other Trek goes). I'm glad it never happened.
That's more advanced than my thinking got me. I thought of a less clunky Robbie the Robot form
Perhaps everyone is right, we would have landed up with the old argument of whether the damn android was a life-form in its own right etc!
What if a starship just woke up one day and declared its sentience. A natural if unforeseen evolution of its bio-gel packs (perhaps this possibility had been hushed up by developers and top brass wanting to roll out this tech for starships). What if the sentient starship announced that while its been lovely up till now would everyone kindly exit its body at the next starbase because as a sentient being the starship is taking charge of its life and that did not include being a transport. Will the Feds give up a whole starship in honor of it's sentience? And what if signs of sentience begin to stir in the rest of the fleet, will the Feds abort the gel packs before they lose all their ships? Will they disable the weapons from the sentient ship before they let it go on its way?
Well lets hope that they don't breed or we will be deep crap with Star ships multiplying
Isn't that what happens in TNG's Emergence in a nutshell?
Isn't that what happens in TNG's Emergence in a nutshell?
Did it? I will have to watch that ep. TNG is my least favorite and least watched series.
Wasn't the dog an android? I thought I saw Archer flip a cover on its head to reveal blinking lights and fiber optic cables.
Either way the ship needed a Twiggy to lighten things up.
Either way the ship needed a Twiggy to lighten things up.
Biddy biddy biddy warp core breach in five seconds.
That's basically what Roddenberry had going on in the show Andromeda, a vast fleet of self aware warships. That and the concept of the character of Rommie was the only good thing about the show.
It would depend if the robots were to be characters or just background machines. Not characters I would hope. Not R2D2, but something like the droids on the movie Silent Running could have been interesting. Just moving around the backgound of any given shot, walking on the hull, helping Trip work on a panel, that sort of thing.
Trip would give them names (Huey, Dewey, and Louie), T'Pol would berate him for anthropomorphize a mechicanical, the robot would accidently squert oil on her hair.
OMG Maneth is that steampunk Picard in your avatar?!
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