B'Elanna fixes an Alien Robot

B'Elanna fixes an Alien Robot

[@awsomewe360]

These scenes really shows off Janeway's scientific background! I personally loved that Janeway was a more scientific mind vs other captains.

[@technopirate304]

That’s what won me over in the first episode. She was able to go down to engineering and command the team to stabilize the warp core. FYI - Captain Sisko helped design the Defiant

[@xander1052]

@@technopirate304 tbf, Sisko is a little bit of a tactical guy at heart. It's understandable that he helped design the pocket death inducing warship that is the Defiant.

[@Spacegoat92]

Robot: Identify yourself Torres: I'm Lietenant B'Elanna Torres of the Federation Starship Voyager Robot: I'm Isaac.

[@GiratinaofFury]

I wonder if B'ellana retained blue prints of the automated personnel units; she mentioned that working with one taught her more about robotics than she would have learned at Starfleet Academy, and that synthetic life is nowhere near as advanced in the Alpha Quadrant. The kind of knowledge she could bring back to Earth would be incredible.

[@konayasai]

@@chrismadison305 Wasn't Data a bit of a fluke?

[@curruptedJimbo]

That would help explain how the federation came to have a android slave race in Picard

[@securitysupreme]

@@curruptedJimbo Indeed, Data was around for a while you'd think they would have created something similar to him considering he was already in star fleet. However there was that one episode where Date failed to create his own offspring. I guess they're harder to create than I thought?

[@schwarzerritter5724]

"What about increasing the capacitance of the relays?" Captain, they are relays, not capacitors. Did you already have you coffee?

[@trespire]

Some relays have capacitors installed in parallel to the switching coil, that function as surge protection. The capacitor and coil balance each other out.

[@spudhead169]

They're plasma relays, probably not designed for the type of plasma Voyager produces. From the context of dialogue I'd speculate that Voyager's plasma is more energetic than the kind normally used (i.e. hotter). It'd be analogous to running a gasoline car on hydrazine, if you gradually increased the fuel you'd damage the cylinders before extracting enough power to run the engine effectively. Since plasma is a physical substance, any relay device would likely employ a "tank" to temporarily buffer it as it passes through, similar to the function of a bypass capacitor. It would also act to smooth out any fluctuations in the supply. Increasing the capacity of this "tank" (the relay devices must have variable capacity somehow) might be enough to allow the plasma to cool a little before being shunted out allowing other systems to use it without burning out.

[@jamesha175]

well robot guy appears to have exemplary manners

[@Dumb-Comment]

misread the title as: Banana fixes an Alien Robot

[@Nichodo]

LOL

[@flashkraft]

Thank you for re-activating me B'Elanna Torres, prepare to be assimilated.

[@Krystalmyth]

I think she;d be down. lol

[@AnhTrieu90]

They're stranded in the Borg's backyard and they still feel safe to activate some random robot they ran into?

[@michaelheath2866]

Yeah good point lol, not as if that ever stopped them, if you'll recall that Future borg they once created mostly because they were a bit careless with borg tech.

[@xPadge112x]

They have data this would be like fixing a plug to an appliance for them.

[@Dafoodmaster]

They werent even close to Borg space at this point, were they?

[@dhinton1]

@@Dafoodmaster you are correct. the crew didn't even see remnants of the Borg until later on in season 2 .... but didn't enter Borg space itself until the season 3 finale. they did know that Borg space was somewhere in the DQ, based off where the Enterprise-D first encountered them in TNG season 2.

[@Dafoodmaster]

@@dhinton1 thanks! i agree, they would be aware of borg presence in the delta quadrant. maybe i would've felt some apprehension.

[@MEEEPMEEEPMEEEPMEEEP]

The costume budget for this episode was -5$ by the looks of it

[@xnetpc]

It was casual Friday on set, that just happened to be what he was wearing so they wrote the episode around it.

[@alonenjersey]

The robot sounds exactly like the voice on can hear aboard the monorail @ Newark International Airport.

[@michaelserebreny454]

Step lively!!!

[@alonenjersey]

@@michaelserebreny454 Actually the voice @ Newark International Airport is quite pleasant.

[@michaelserebreny454]

@@alonenjersey wasn’t in the ‘90s lol

[@alonenjersey]

@@michaelserebreny454 As far as I can tell, it hasn't changed at all in all these years.

[@michaelserebreny454]

@@alonenjersey well it used to rush you along every time the door opened

[@satguy]

And violated the prime directive. In the ending, we find out why that is never a good idea.

[@mikewalrus4763]

B'Elanna looks like you're now a Mummy!

[@artwallace9323]

Another great clip that makes me want to go and buy the dvd!

[@Total_Recall]

This EP, "Prototype", was 1 of my 2 fave early Voyager episodes, the other being "Dreadnought" - in that one I loved when she tried to make the weapon outsmart ITSELF by reactivating it's original Cardassian program. In this 1, things seemed to be going OK for the most part ('cept for the fact she was kidnapped and forced to help), until she suggested their "Builders" make peace with each other, and found out these robots destroyed them to preserve their own species (which is I guess why they weren't given the ability to self-replicate/reproduce). That's when she realized she'd made a HUGE mistake - I guess that's what the Prime Directive's for, tho I prolly would have done the same thing. I think it was a real thought provoking and excellent early episode. -- RICHARD aka 'Firstof3'

[@Tigerman1138]

Cryogen2200 When Dreadnaught was battling/defending itself it was wild. Each “part” it attacking with viruses, defending, attacking in other ways, and back and forth.

[@MachineMetropolis]

Any coincidence that they're both B'Elanna episodes?

[@DIGITALSWOON]

everyone sits on those sick bay beds exactly the same way, even alien robots

[@michaelschweigart3517]

That's probably all of their torsos are similarly designed 😂

[@Robert.R.83]

Janeway is such a hands on kinda gal

[@Robert-hz9bj]

This episode had some of the best, dumb sci-fi gibberish in all of Voyager. Maybe one word in twenty that she used actually referenced real science, and the time's that did she used them wrong XD

[@reverberer]

E.g. increasing the capacitance of the relays...

[@evafemme8674]

It's so... Star Trek. I like the bullshit they say.

[@kauske]

The term 'treknobabble' works well for the pseudoscience they always spew. I think the show would be better if they cut ever line of that from it. Embrace the fact it's fantasy, and don't explain your magic space tech.

[@michaelschweigart3517]

Ya, sure you were doc 😂

[@juanchocorleone]

2:13 Are they...flirting? What the fuck?

[@Turboy65]

Robot has an immobile face but has an adam's apple and muscles and tendons in the neck that move when it talks. Voyager costume department must have been feeling very lazy when they came up with this one.

[@lyannawinter405]

It might be nostalgia but for a moment I thought it was Brent Spiner doing the voice acting.

[@erykrejner2528]

I was soo disapointed once I saw the desigh of the robot head... It's like there was absolutley no imagination put into it...

[@Xylarxcode]

Right? Looks like the fucking Tin Man out of Wizard of Oz.

[@ciudaddepapel4544]

If a Quantum computer was able to get a hold of some form of robotics that could indepedently connect like a transformer, it could bring trouble to humanity.

[@crystalheart9]

I saw this episode the other night and I got sleepy and nodded off at the part where the robots were holding B'Elanna captive to build a robot for them. How did she escape? Thank you for the video clip of the episode.

[@tek512]

2:23 B'Elanna: "I wonder if I can design a penile attachment for it."

[@Krystalmyth]

@Josh yuck lol

[@malikhedir5586]

Season 2 Episode 13 "Prototype"

[@davidblakley6806]

compliments

[@booyahinc]

What to do when Isaac sleeps like Buu...

[@digital_gravity]

Star Trek is very inconsistent. Why is it so hard to make robots when they have holograms that, even if not sentient, can do a variety of tasks? The Star Trek universe should be full of Datas.

[@digital_gravity]

Use the transporter to mass manufacture datas, lol.

[@briandeschene8424]

digitalgravity You sound like my non-technical manager at work who wonders why we can’t take one working Windows 10 PC desktop and just make copies for all 6000 employees. Ignoring the licensing legal issues that don’t exist in this case, having exact clones of the same thing for everyone with the identical identity would be awkward/impossible to manage *and* only be useful if all employees were interchangeable “widgets”. Oh wait!, that *is* how some managers see employees! :-)

[@digital_gravity]

Brian Deschene: You don't think 1 data on each starship would work? The Emergency Medical Hologram is a nearly exact copy on each starship...

[@jondonnelly4831]

@@briandeschene8424 windows cloning is a thing, licencing is managed by re-sealing the oobe and making the oobe unique then automating software activation.

[@bshilling9924]

No one was able to duplicate what Noonien Soong did with Data/Lore/B4. Even Data tried and failed. A hologram is easier to accomplish than a robot like Data. A hologram is run by the ships computer and limited to use on the ship(not counting the mobile emitter). Data was essentially a ship computer in a body of a man. A ships computer takes up several decks so making it the size of a human brain is not easy. It took the Soong family 3 centuries to figure out how to create B4/Lore and Data. With these three only Data was the sane/usable robot.

[@sheabutter1563]

Its Isaac from the Orville

[@Studiogu-xj4ym]

I like starfleet technology very much

[@evanboll4651]

Is it just me or were the Pralor and Cravic flying what appeared to be something akin to Stargate Goa'uld Motherships?

[@adambrown3918]

Very irresponsible to activate the robot without first examining his operating system and memory data. Who knows if it was battle droid or a trojan-horse able to take control of the ships systems?

[@adambrown3918]

@@craigmcfly I think you're right. My mistake for being too cautious. LOL! 🤣

[@r0bw00d]

Was this episode made during the "our friends are really our enemies" stage of the show? I can't remember.

[@djargus]

Seemed to be. Because later on we find that not only are these androids fighting a war against each other with another similar race of androids, when the two humanoid species that built these androids made peace with each other and tried to stop the androids fighting, the androids decided to murder the species who built them and then continued fighting with each other!

[@unadomandaperte]

Would you two like to be alone?

[@codedlAnguage]

How long is it going to take. ? 🤕

[@zenon8]

i ship them

[@MetaSynForYourSoul]

Automated personnel unit huh? Dildos of the future have extremely long names.

[@Sage2000]

Só, no reason to have a security detachment or at least Tuvok…

[@JavierLopez-nw8kb]

Das’ a man in a plastic suit

[@biggsdarklight]

Das it mane.

[@lyannawinter405]

xD luv this.

[@Robert.R.83]

Its a boy!

[@FortoFight]

This is why she's called Baelanna.

[@one4all126]

Wait so his name is A.P.U? Lol

[@mikevanroy9356]

How does this robot from the other side of the galaxy know what a humanoid is without ever meeting a human?

[@trespire]

Automated personel unit 3947 played by Woddy Allen.

[@johnnybikesalot]

Oh my god the framerate in this video is so poor

[@paulacross3086]

that's data's voice.

[@erikk77]

Those plasma relays are parts made in Japan.

[@chalino19]

no

[@edwardbliss8931]

Man, the early Voyager episodes suck

[@crimecat1483]

You too!

[@pantsuck11]

opens popcorn "oh don't mind me, I 'm just wait from so overweight alt-right neck beard to bash the show, while saying Orville is "real" while being unaware this EXACT episode inspired Orville"

[@zeppy13131]

Cringe-inducingly corny. :?w