Beka and Tyr face off with Dylan for leadership during an fight with an unknown enemy.
Anyone know when this will air? The show was on my local ABC station (Phoenix,AZ) on Tuesday nights with a re-run on Staurday. This week it's not on the schedule at all!
Well, I guess this was a pretty good episode...thought they're still using bad dialogue ("See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya"). Still, Nice battle scenes (My fave is the one at the end where Andromeda fires a TON of laser blasts...wow)!
Quick plot summary for Balance of Terror, oops, uh, D minus Zero:
As Captain Kirk (Pike),... uh, Dylan Hunt, battles with a Romulan Warbird, er... uh... ...
There was a point when they were near the star and Rev said that they had lost the last of their sensor drones and were "Blind". A few moments later he reported more missiles heading towards them. Were they "Blind" or weren't they.
Dylan explains the rules of Basketball to Tyr, but doesn't tell him of the No Contact rule?
So the ship is in love with Dylan? A bit of a switch on Kirk in love with the Enterprise. However, if a ship could fall in love with a person would it act so Human in it's reactions? A ship has no biological urge to reproduce, so touching & other things would not seem to be natural.
Tyr says, "If Andromeda were my child, I would drown her." So Nietzchians don't believe in a merciful, quick death like snapping the neck?
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::However, if a ship could fall in love with a person would it act so Human in it's reactions? A ship has no biological urge to reproduce, so touching & other things would not seem to be natural. ::KAM
Well, if this was a Trek universe, I'd say she was probably programmed with simulated human emotions, and has exceeded her programming (see: Data, The Doctor).
In the Andromeda universe, we really don't know the nature of AI's yet. The easy answer is that she's reacting like that because she was programmed that way. (i.e. the AI programming for what to do when you are in love is to simulate the actions that a human would do if it were in love).
On the other hand, perhaps in this universe (perhaps we should call it AU? vs. STU?) AI's have evolved to a point where they are citizens of the (former) Commonwealth with all the rights and privileges therein. They could be considered another race and Andromeda serves on the AAscendent of her own free will.
Also, with respect to the physical aspects of her love, we've already seen that she can inhabit robotic bodies. How "Real" are those bodies? Perhaps she CAN feel contact and experience pleasure?
Remember, the AU is a whole new universe that we've never seen before. Until they establish the nature of this universe, it's sort of hard to Nitpick many aspects.
This could be a lot of fun! :^)
So the ship is in love with Dylan? A bit of a switch on Kirk in love with the Enterprise.
Dylan is living Kirk's dream! :-)
Well... Rommie WAS made flesh, remember?
I like the fact that Andromeda is in love with Dylan. Besides, if Voyager's hologram can fall in love(God knows he's done enough of that), why can't the title character on Andromeda?
It's not the fact that a sentient ship might have feelings for it's captain, but the way Andromeda's hologram acted around the picture of Dylan, indicated to me that the ship wants some kind of sexual relationship.
Why would a ship want a sexual relationship?
Is that how the Commonwealth produces new ships? Somehow, I doubt it. (Although that would make for an interesting story.)
If you're going to have a story where an AI is in love, think about what love really means for an AI. Since AI's are constructed I don't think they would have a sex drive.
It would be like Data in The Ensigns Of Command where he kissed the girl because he logically decided she wanted to be kissed.
Rommie might send her Avatar to have sex with Dylan because it pleased him, but I have trouble believing there would be any sexual desire on her part? (Then again, who knows what Harper programmed into her?)
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