Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 11, 2009 8:06:42 GMT -6
The Enterprise is searching the planet Exo III for the expedition of archaeologist Roger Corby, an operation which Nurse Chapel is quite interested in since she is engaged to be married to him. Just when all hope seems lost, a message is received, asking for Kirk to beam down alone. Kirk and Chapel find Corby and his party deep underground, where they have discovered a remarkable technology -- a machine which is reputedly capable of completely transfering a person's mind into an android body!
You might think that having an easily repaired android body would be useful, and you would be correct. But tampering with the mind? Programming away "negative" thoughts and replacing them with "positive" ones? who decides which thoughts have to go and which can stay? It is shocking that a man like Roger Corby could have believed for one moment that such a thing would be acceptable -- proof that his actual mind was probably NOT transfered to the android body. I expect the machine copied just enough of his mental patterns to give the illusion that he was sentient, whereas he was actually merely following a program that the Old Ones had left in the machine.
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Luke
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Post by Luke on Sept 15, 2009 10:02:41 GMT -6
I keep wondering about Ruk. If hes an android he must have been made to look like the peoplw who made him. Does that mean the Old Ones looked like him?
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Post by andrewlee on Sept 17, 2009 16:41:29 GMT -6
I keep wondering about Ruk. If hes an android he must have been made to look like the peoplw who made him. Does that mean the Old Ones looked like him? I think this is very likely that they did....possibly larger and more imposing to be effective in protecting who and what he was supposed to!!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Sept 18, 2009 7:36:44 GMT -6
If he was made in the same machine, presumably he was copied. But to hear Ruk tell it, he and his kind were built more or less as slaves, so it's not certain. It's a fair assumption, though, that the Old Ones looked similar to him.
But here's a good point -- if the machine worked as Corby thought it did, why didn't the Old Ones transfer themselves into android bodies?
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Post by andrewlee on Sept 18, 2009 7:45:54 GMT -6
If he was made in the same machine, presumably he was copied. But to hear Ruk tell it, he and his kind were built more or less as slaves, so it's not certain. It's a fair assumption, though, that the Old Ones looked similar to him. But here's a good point -- if the machine worked as Corby thought it did, why didn't the Old Ones transfer themselves into android bodies? Maybe they wanted to and had not advanced far enough to transfer themselves to the android bodies.
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