Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x10 - "The Last Generation"

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Picard' started by Commander Richard, Apr 19, 2023.

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  1. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    Those are some gnarly old-timey breadboards and mechanical gadgets right there! Maybe they got into integrated circuits by then... :lol:
     
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  2. jackoverfull

    jackoverfull Commodore Commodore

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    The TOS enterprise had duotronic circuits.
     
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  3. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    A.K.A. "binary". :D
     
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  4. cooleddie74

    cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    And the SNW version of the ship has duotronics as well as referenced both on a readout of the Enterprise seen in Season 2 of DSC and in the newer series as well.
     
  5. CorporalCaptain

    CorporalCaptain Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Multitronics will just drive you crazy. :shifty:
     
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  6. 137th Gebirg

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  7. cooleddie74

    cooleddie74 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    We never got an official name for the 22nd century computer technology seen in use aboard ships like the NX-01 but in my head I've long called those systems optronics.
     
  8. Farscape One

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    Not before it goes crazy itself.

    *coughs* M5 *coughs*
     
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  9. KamenRiderBlade

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    Binary FTW!

    "von Neumann" Computers are 4 Life!
     
  10. CorporalCaptain

    CorporalCaptain Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    It went crazy, because he'd gone crazy fantasizing his revenge while working on it. The source of the engrams was a crazy man.
     
  11. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    *Dr. Sydney Freedman* "Now that's crazy."
     
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  12. CorporalCaptain

    CorporalCaptain Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    What a great character, right from his name, to the actor playing him, through every episode, and all the way to "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen."
     
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  13. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    God, I miss that show. One of the greatest ever made, IMO.
     
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  14. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    My wife and I watch it all the way through at least once a year. Enjoyable, emotional, thought provoking and still funny. And some great character work when you watch it beginning to end.
     
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  15. Farscape One

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    The difference being Daystrom just wanted to recapture past glory. He wasn't out to kill people. M5 became murderous. Hundreds of officers were killed by it.

    Just over a century later in LOWER DECKS, a Starfleet admiral creates another computer gone crazy. Lots of people killed there, too.

    Starfleet should really learn these lessons.
     
  16. CorporalCaptain

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    From "The Ultimate Computer" [http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/53.htm]:

    KIRK: The M-5 must be destroyed.
    DAYSTROM: Destroyed, Kirk? No. We're invincible. Look what we've done. Your mighty starships, Four toys to be crushed as we choose.
    (Spock neck-pinches Daystrom.)​

    Daystrom wanted to recapture past glory, yes, but that scene reveals that his grudges ran deep, to the point where he'd had murder fantasies. He was having one right there.
     
  17. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk Live from Cerritos Premium Member

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    And they’ll name just about anything after him. :lol:
     
  18. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Become a villain or live long enough to have a statue built after you ;)
     
  19. StewMc

    StewMc Commodore Commodore

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    Imagine the outrage if it was a modern Trek decision to name various tech institutes after Daystrom.

    “Kurtzman doesn’t understand Trek at all, naming that place after a psycho.”
     
  20. Sci

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    In fairness, while the Daystrom Institute was first established in TNG, modern Trek has made it way more prominent than it was in the Berman era. We never saw it before, but we've had five episodes in part set there now between PIC and LD -- and that's not counting Daystrom Station.

    It was so obscure during the Berman era and has become so prominent in PIC and LD that I think a casual fan could be forgiven for thinking it was created for the Kurtzman era.
     
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