Help train Watson in Star Trek lore

[Jon Mobius]

For an experiment, I am loading IBM's Watson supercomputer with "everything" Star Trek. I need help from the forum to test out its capabilities and train it in Star Trek history, philosophy, the cast, plots narratives and crucial detail...etc... We want to see if we can train Watson to answer any question on the Star Trek world.

Please can you suggest your top Star Trek questions (and answers) to help us train the supercomputer. For the learning process to work we need a range of questions (and answers) from the detail factoid, to the complex philosophical, which we will pose to Watson and rank its answers iteratively as it learns. I will post the top 50 questions we select for the training and update the forum on how Watson performs during training.

Many thanks for your time. Mobius.

 

[t_smitts]

Okay, here's some:

-How many ships were lost in the Battle of Wolf 359?

-Why was Gates McFadden dropped from the TNG cast in the second season?

-How long must a Jem'Hadar live to earn the title of "Honored Elder"?

-Who was the earliest born performer on the original Star Trek?

-Which recurring actor on "Star Trek: Enterprise" did they plan to make a series regular if the show had been renewed for a fifth season?

-Why is the USS Phoenix different than any other Nebula-class starship seen subsequently?

-What is the difference between the "NCC" and "NX" prefix that comes before a starship's registry number?

 

[Jon Mobius]

Excellent Qs - but I need the answers as well so we can check Watson is getting it right and my knowledge is not yet that good...!
Tx Mobius

 

[t_smitts]

Excellent Qs - but I need the answers as well so we can check Watson is getting it right and my knowledge is not yet that good...!
Tx Mobius

My suggestion would be to consult Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki.

 

[Jon Mobius]

Wiki is loaded - so these Qs hopefully will be good for an answer. We should be in test mode by the weekend and I will let you know.

What I want to do is start probing that are beyond Wiki... Any more thought out there?

 

[Captain Rob]

Why is it wrong for a computer to exercise complete control over a Human population. Regardless of the size.
The answer is Kirk's speech from "Return of the Archons". Which caused the Landru computer to self destruct.

 

[plynch]

Computer, this is a class A compulsory directive. Compute to the last digit the value of pi.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

What does Lieutenant Uhura's name mean?
A: It means freedom in Swahili.

 

[Mbak Pandu Wisaksono]

Is this project still on? I'm very interested to contribute, and I know a lot of Trekkie friends who would love to contribute also.