/strek/ - Star Trek

the robots aren't as advanced as data is, so a ship can't run itself

and they need an excuse for all the people to do some kind of work, otherwise everyone would turn into tom paris

>>3017

There are probably more robots on earth doing all the heavy work, in an exploration ship there is no point of having robots because there isn't a lot of heavy work in exploration

>>3022

My mental image is that Data is slapping Wesley.

>>3017

Robots like the one you posted that resemble humanoids are worthless in Trek, unless they're on Data's level of intelligence, in which case they would be androids, not robots. Think about it. Need something built in a hurry? Replicate it. Need some heavy lifting done? Transport it or use one of those gravity hand-trucks. Need to calculate something in a hurry? Ask the computer. Hostile forces are boarding the ship? Throw up some force-fields or grab a phaser. A slow, clunky robot wouldn't be much use against enemy boarding parties anyway.

Basically, any need a crew may have for a robot is already built into the ship. In rare cases where the built in tools of the ship aren't applicable, something new can be replicated, jury-rigged, or even be temporarily fabricated by a set of holo-emitters. The only robots that the Federation does use are non-humanoid, such as robotic arms that help assemble new star ships. So any kind of humanoid robot in Star Trek would just be obsolete.

Development of AIs is unnaturally slowed in ST's universe because otherwise there would be no stories, as ships, just like everything else, would be fully automated and there would be no adventures for humans, who would stay home all day to do nothing but get fat and drool in front of a monitor which is probably what's going to happen irl

I think star trek Panned over AI cause it was easier.AI did develop a few times in star trek but Ai running things it seemed like all the races did not trust AI to be in there interest, they refused to turn over control to a machine for life and death. They made the choices and decisions not a AI. Which IS understandable given what may occur. There was a example in a Suprisingly decent episode of voyager with 1960s looking robots. where programming and logic is real but sentience and self awareness is not like data. Data Is self aware in ways the robots are not. I think all good things wrapped up the series nicely we got to see data grow older More human but not quite fully human. I think if data was completely devoid of emotion or care. Why did not not simply recreate lal. IT would be just another try It would be logical simply to try again until it worked but data did not follow that logic. Things did become occasionally become self aware in star trek. Infact the enterprise D itself gave birth once. Moriarty

>>3025

i always thought "the game" was a great episode.

and almost prophetic considering how shitty phone games (like pokemon go) can take over society in like a week nowadays

>>3126

>and almost prophetic considering how shitty phone games (like pokemon go) can take over society in like a week nowadays

There's actually an easter egg "the game" in Star Trek Timelines.

>>3127

wow thats cool as fuck

is that game any good? i generally pass on star trek games as they are infamous for being shit. the only one i liked/played as a kid is bridge commander

>>3132

>is that game any good?

Never played Timelines; used to have a bootleg of Bridge Commander around, it was fun for setting up small skirmish mode battles, it's probably succumbed to bit rot by now but I might dig it out.