And, like, 20 other sentient holodeck characters. I guess you can be sentient as long as you don’t mind being trapped in a virtual prison (or have a mobile holo-emitter).
Plus the ship’s computer was able to simulate bleeding edge physics and do advanced problem solving. Between holograph emitters and that computer, I’m not sure why they needed mortals running the ships, other than for fun.
I mean the emh in voyager shows that with holo emitters all through the ship they kind of don’t, but also that human prpblem solving/unconventional thinking is always the secret sauce needed to escape any given situation.
“We can’t duplicate Data. He’s too complicated and we don’t understand how to make machines have sentience.”
But also
“Hey, I just made a new sentient life by asking the computer to be cooler than Data!”
You’d think the whole ship would go dark while it was building Moriarty, like the Heart of Gold trying to make a cup of tea.
And, like, 20 other sentient holodeck characters. I guess you can be sentient as long as you don’t mind being trapped in a virtual prison (or have a mobile holo-emitter).
Plus the ship’s computer was able to simulate bleeding edge physics and do advanced problem solving. Between holograph emitters and that computer, I’m not sure why they needed mortals running the ships, other than for fun.
I mean the emh in voyager shows that with holo emitters all through the ship they kind of don’t, but also that human prpblem solving/unconventional thinking is always the secret sauce needed to escape any given situation.