3x07:
- So DID anyone come back after the first battle with the Pakleds? You'd think Starfleet would've sent SOMEONE to clean up and perhaps retrieve any remaining pieces of the USS Solvang. I mean PH was saying she DIDN'T want to be picked up by Starfleet at the time, so maybe someone did send a ship to salvage the remains? Or maybe she got busy with the escape ship a lot sooner than we thought?
You would think that SF sent a cleanup detail along with someone to retrieve PH (but Freeman already showed before she forgot about our illustrious quartet at the start of one episode when they were performing maintenance on a comms bouy in space - left them there for 4 hours before remembering to return for them).
In fairness, this isn't Freeman's issue specifically because SOMEONE down the chain of command would/should have known the ensigns were out on maintenance duty... and the captain cannot be expected to keep track of everything, so in that sense, someone else on the Cerritos messed up (perhaps Ransom?).
But Mariner already established that SF is pretty bad at following up on stuff... and sending a ship to clean up the debris field might not have been deemed important enough in case more Pakled ships were waiting in ambush at the time (which would warrant sending a small contingent of ships to do the cleanup instead... like 5 or 10).
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@Mike McDevitt points out that when the Pakleds are phasering the hull, this time we see the beams of the devices they use poke out the other side - and then stop. Are we looking at a really big phaser sword device? Or are the Pakleds characteristically bad at developing weapons of their own and can't get a range of more than a few hundred meters out of hteir cutting beams, which kinda tracks with how they use hand weapons when taking a ship?
Since the Pakleds mainly steal technology from other species and then cobble it together, I don't think they care particularly at how things are arranged... as long as it works.
In that sense, they are indeed quite bad at developing weapons or technology in general of their own.
- All four of our LDS heroes are uncharacteristically on the bridge of the Cerritos for their part of the action, and Tendi beams down presumably for medical help, which would suggest this episode doesn't happen in this show's present, unless she requested to beam down for medical duties because of her previous role as PH's docent. Or T'ana didn't want to beam down lest she instinctively go after the locals as prey.
We've seen previously our ensings on the bridge at any given time throughout the show... sure it was rare, but it happened.
Tendi also started her science officer training program, so her being on the bridge (and history with PH) would warrant her presence on the away team.
- I think I mentioned it last year, but until someone tells me otherwise I'm just going to assume that most of the evil AIs are really 21st century gaming desktops that developed sentience after their users played one too many rounds of Fallout. They all look like modern gaming rigs.
Mark
They do indeed. But its unlikely they could have developed sentience because computers from today don't have the processing power or capacity to develop sentient AI behavior.
The coding we currently use in personal computers is static, its not adaptive.
If the OS in the said gaming rigs used adaptive algorithms capable of rewriting their own code, then yeah, that would make more sense until they started developing basic awareness, and then they could interface with technology that had 'moving parts' to upgrade them and give them moving wires, etc.
But its just as likely these evil AI's are products of other species which were discarded.
Its amazing that none of them managed to became the next Control... but then, Control arose from a freaking starship and had more advanced tech and database at its disposal (so it wouldn't surprise me if these are gaming rigs from other species in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants - maybe some from the Gamma Quadrant too).
