Spoilers ST Lower Decks - Starships and Technology Season Two Discussion

[Timo]

- So the Cerritos has internal security cameras and records... EVERYTHING, including innocuous records of conversations between Mariner and Ransom? Or maybe it was just what was on Mariner's PADD that AGIMUS accessed? Or AGIMUS just made that up based on a record it accessed?

Might well be everything is recorded in detail - but, as per TOS already, accessing the records is nigh-impossible for the crew, both to hinder tampering and to preserve privacy. Thus, no whodunnit is ever solved by last night's tapes, because at best a high-ranking officer can use his privileges to access a specific bit, say, the feed from a specific camera('ish doodad): he or she can't even do a search.

AGIMUS would have an edge there in being able to bypass privileges and blocks and do all the evil rummaging it wants...

- As concerning as it is that there are dozens of evil computers that Starfleet ALONE has managed to defeat / capture / retrieve for study in Okinawa, it's even MORE strange how they're all about the same size and shape as most 21st century desktop gaming rigs.

...Wouldn't that be just a Starfleet thing - the evil computers being software, which Starfleet imprisons in porta-brigs of a standard design?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Perhaps, but then I'd wonder why they didn't trim its data tentacle things, or at least put them in cable management tie wraps like everyone else?

Mark

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Perhaps, but then I'd wonder why they didn't trim its data tentacle things, or at least put them in cable management tie wraps like everyone else?

Mark

Some might consider it inhumane to bind it's tentacles, despite the fact that it's a AI in a box.

 

[DEWLine]

Might be a standard in AI development accidentally arrived at by multiple cultures across the galaxy...? You'll notice there's design variation across those dozens of casings.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Might be a standard in AI development accidentally arrived at by multiple cultures across the galaxy...? You'll notice there's design variation across those dozens of casings.

1980'/90's Macintosh style box with different logos on the front and tentacle ports of some sort.

 

[Ronald Held]

Are any of these AIs considered sentient?

 

[DEWLine]

Apparently so. Or they wouldn't be classed as "AI".

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Those personal sized mini HoloDecks, I can see future ships where nearly every room can get their own single person HoloSuite.

 

[Timo]

Might have been the civilian standard for decades already for all we know. Starfleet just prefers communal versions, for the same reason militaries prefer communal accommodation, hygiene, training etc.

Apparently so. Or they wouldn't be classed as "AI".

Dogs can be divided to intelligent and stupid, and both types eventually artificially imitated. AS might be its own category altogether...

But Starfleet is likely to reserve this sort of attention to machines or programs that are clever enough to demand asylum or a lawyer. (Or perhaps it shoots those to pieces outright, and jails those stupid enough never to ask?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Markonian]

Tech from Lower Decks (set in 2380-81) is now available in STO (2409-2411), including the Parliament-class surveyor and Shaxs's handheld phaser cannon.
Image link: https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/File:Reflections_Lower_Decks_loading_screen.jpg
STO web link: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11497213

As an indirect reference, a trio of Exocomps appearing in the mission "Operation: Wolf" have Lower Decks-style humorous personalities. Those new guys are Acid Burn, Zero Cool and Cereal Killer. In the same mission, Admiral Jorel Quinn of Terran Empire Starfleet also relies on the portable phaser cannon.

In the mission "Firewall", you encounter the mirror!Exocomp Legume Creel. A legume is a type of peanut and a creel is a type of basket. Get it?

Btw, Pakleds have been a playable Starfleet species for years. I like to think that continued exposure to the Federation led to some Pakleds joining Starfleet, similarly to Klingons, Ferengi, Cardassians and Bajorans in the 24th century.

 

[DEWLine]

Has STO IDed a registry number for their version of the Parliament-class namesake ship?

 

[fireproof78]

legume is a type of peanut and a creel is a type of basket. Get it?

Didn't know that is what creel meant.

 

[Mike McDevitt]

Somebody shook season 2, and all the crew tumbled into ‘I, Excretus’!!!

27-ish new human faces and 7 NAMES for some of them! (Plus memory alpha lists
Pon Darra & Vaarza who I haven’t identified?) A beautiful shot of a huge crew gathering proving “Conga Line Blind Engineer” has a VISOR-ed identical twin/cousin/clone! My rough count has Cerritos crew complement at 279-ish and climbing. By the profits, do I heart this show.

 

[Ronald Held]

AIs are not necessarily sentient.

 

[matthunter]

AIs are not necessarily sentient.

Nor are TBBS posters.

 

[Markonian]

Somebody shook season 2, and all the crew tumbled into ‘I, Excretus’!!!

27-ish new human faces and 7 NAMES for some of them! (Plus memory alpha lists
Pon Darra & Vaarza who I haven’t identified?) A beautiful shot of a huge crew gathering proving “Conga Line Blind Engineer” has a VISOR-ed identical twin/cousin/clone! My rough count has Cerritos crew complement at 279-ish and climbing. By the profits, do I heart this show.

Love that Jennier sh'Reyan has a TrekLit-like Andorian name.

 

[fireproof78]

Nor are TBBS posters.

You can't beat the captcha?

 

[Tuskin38]

Those new guys are Acid Burn, Zero Cool and Cereal Killer.

Those names are references to character aliases in the 1995 film 'Hackers'.

In the same mission, Admiral Jorel Quinn of Terran Empire Starfleet also relies on the portable phaser cannon.

He's using an assault minigun that's been in the game since launch. Not the LDS one.

 

[Markonian]

Those names are references to character aliases in the 1995 film 'Hackers'.


He's using an assault minigun that's been in the game since launch. Not the LDS one.

That's the image I have: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s..._mirror.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210920184102

Now I'm unsure. Thought it was the new gun.

 

[Tuskin38]

That's the image I have: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s..._mirror.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210920184102

Now I'm unsure. Thought it was the new gun.

Yeah that’s just the standard phaser assault mini gun. I’ve played the TFO 15 times