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They never even followed established canon [spoilers]

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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In "TOS" episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" Kirk beams down to a planet looking for a Dr. Korby and discovers he had his consciousness placed inside an android body, and after Dr. Korby commits suicide with a phaser, Spock comes down and asks Kirk, "Where is Dr. Korby?" Kirk's reply is, "He was never here." Meaning Dr. Korby really died long ago with his biological body. The android of him was just a copy of his memories, but the man was dead.
Now we have Picard the android in the exact same situation as Dr. Korby was, but now he's supposed to be the same as Picard the human. So they can make a hundred real Picards if they had a hundred android bodies? The whole thing is just stupid.

[–] Costumer (1784) 4 years ago

No offense here, but we are talking about two different technologies.

In "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" the extinct race the Old Ones designed the robots. If they had no intent of their creations reaching sentience, they weren't built for it. And Ruk explains that his design is more complex than the ones Korby was making.

TNG starts roughly 75 to 80 years after TOS. I'm sure the facility with Dr. Korby was torn apart and analyzed. Dr. Soong undoubtedly studied that work and applied his own theories; his androids were designed to have real emotions. He turned that off for Data because of what happened to Lore. But the emotion chip Data later got solved that.

The androids built after that appear to be two types. The ones that rebelled on Mars seemed to be less advanced than Data; likely deliberately so. The ones on the planet Picard finishes on(sorry, I don't recall the name at the moment) were intended to be more like Data, if not superior to him.

I have issues with both Discovery and Picard regarding the universe's canon but this isn't one of them.

[–] Satan2016 (23248) 4 years ago

Seriously, the fucking Not Canon argument? Lamest troll ever!

There was no AI 50 years ago. Sci Fi writers don't have Philosophy of Mind degrees. Science degree maybe.