Friday, January 08, 2010

Welcome to the inside of my head.

How come, in Star Trek, Data never just plugged into the ship directly so he could do his job way more efficiently? I could see him wanting to do the human thing as much as possible, but for as often as the Enterprise was 3.6 seconds away from losing life support/getting sucked into another dimension/exploding, seems like it would be a prudent course of action.

It just seemed to work so well for R2-D2. Just saying.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Star Trek geek's or Trekkies, not Trekkers(who are just Johnnie come latelys) try not to think about such things. As Gene Roddenberry would say about this subject, we are doing a show about people working in space. We can relate to Data becase he looks like us. It is possible to have an unmaned ship(see "The Ultimate Computer,air date 3/8/68)but what fun would that be? Mom R.

Unknown said...

Well, by the time Seven of Nine came along on Voyager, the Borg had the technology for her to do that... but assimilation is their middle name. The "Assimilation" BORG.

Then again, Voyager was WAY better than Enterprise. So says me. Data was always crazy creepy, anyway.