Posted: 2003-04-13 08:05pm
I think I read somewhere that the computers by TNG era were suppose to be developed from the M5. I think there was a episode or two where the Enterprise was almost running itself.
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Posted: 2003-04-13 08:31pm
Of course it was running itself, didn't you know that Lwaxanna Troi was running the thing from behind the curtain?
Posted: 2003-04-13 11:17pm
You mean Lwaxanna Troi is the wizardconsequences wrote:Of course it was running itself, didn't you know that Lwaxanna Troi was running the thing from behind the curtain?
Posted: 2003-04-13 11:37pm
That makes sense. Then wouldn't Data be the Tin Man? If so, who is the Lion, the Scarecorow, Dorothy, etc.....
Posted: 2003-04-14 01:17am
[Q Mode]That's pitifully easy! Picard is the Cowardly Lion, Riker is the Scarecrow, Troi is Dorothy... and Worf is Toto!Mutant Headcrab wrote:That makes sense. Then wouldn't Data be the Tin Man? If so, who is the Lion, the Scarecorow, Dorothy, etc.....
[/Q Mode]Posted: 2003-04-14 01:27am
Then who is the good Witch????? It can`t be Q ...I can`t see him wearing a dress
Posted: 2003-04-14 01:30am
The Prophets?Typhonis 1 wrote:Then who is the good Witch????? It can`t be Q ...I can`t see him wearing a dress
Posted: 2003-04-14 01:33am
[QM]Fools! Obviously, Guinan is the good witch! Too bad she's not as good as she thinks...[/QM]
Posted: 2003-04-14 09:42am
Does that mean the Ferengi are the Munchkins and the Romulans are the flying monkeys?Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote: [Q Mode]That's pitifully easy! Picard is the Cowardly Lion, Riker is the Scarecrow, Troi is Dorothy... and Worf is Toto!
Posted: 2003-04-14 10:44am
Precisely! You're catching on!Ted C wrote:Does that mean the Ferengi are the Munchkins and the Romulans are the flying monkeys?Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote: [Q Mode]That's pitifully easy! Picard is the Cowardly Lion, Riker is the Scarecrow, Troi is Dorothy... and Worf is Toto!
Posted: 2003-04-14 03:03pm
Well, the computer core of the E-D is capable of sentience (obviously, if it created Dr. Moriarity in the holodeck), and they run a hell of a lot of the ship with the computer (to the point that if the main computer gets infected with a computer virus, the doors open and close at random). So it seems reasonable to assume they kept working on the M-5 and incorporated some of the advances that went into it into Federation computers, though they dropped the concept of the computer running the entire ship without a crew. Though there was one episode where the computer went berzerk and took over the ship anyway, so it IS possible even if it isn't intentional.