Missed the 'fully functional' elements that he showed Tasha Yar.
@stefangla68785 жыл бұрын
And possibly the Borg Queen.
@janedoe49295 жыл бұрын
@@stefangla6878 Which also means he fucked the entire collective. Which is...even more creepier.
@Red-jr9qm5 жыл бұрын
I wondered about that function myself haha
@jimkelly495 жыл бұрын
@Lost Aquarian i was about to say that about data when he was drunk him and the lt mmmmm
@chaseroush65035 жыл бұрын
Didn't someone close to Data mention that at one point Dr. Soong had to program a modesty algorithm to keep him from running around in the buff?
@AnythingMachine5 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that after the first Soong android went homicidal he still went with the bulletproof skin and super strength on the new model
@henrynorcrossii33635 жыл бұрын
Lore wasn't the first android, and Juliana was so afraid of that occurring she refused to take Data with them because she didn't want to have her heart broken again if they had to deactivate him.
@Krahazik5 жыл бұрын
As I understood it, they did not know Lore was homocidal when they first deactivated him. But he was just a bit too perfect and human for the colonists comfort. Remember, Lor was the crafty sneaky ‘I am your friend’ type of bad guy. Lords real plans for the colonists didn’t come to light until after they had deactivated him and they had already built data. Lor was deactivated because he was too human and made the colonists nervous, not because he was secretly planning to sacrifice the entire colony to the crystalline entity.
@PRGME74 жыл бұрын
Sammy Martin nobody ever said Soong was a “stable” genius
@basteagui4 жыл бұрын
@@Krahazik lore was the most competent enemy in star trek, period. he even manipulated the borg. truly a force to be reckoned with. by the same token i believe data is the finest officer in starfleet if he were given a chance at command
@samuelmatheson96554 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@XX-sp3tt5 жыл бұрын
One of the most emotional moments in Star Trek is where the admiral is describing Data trying to save the life of his daughter 'his hands' 'moving faster than I could see'. Data's hands have moved fast on camera, but not beyond the human eye's ability to see. Data was OVERCLOCKING HIMSELF.
@sparkymist5 жыл бұрын
Oh man forgot all about that, what episode was that again want to go back and rewatch.
@XX-sp3tt5 жыл бұрын
@@sparkymist The Offspring.
@sparkymist5 жыл бұрын
X X ok awesome thanks!!!
@henrynorcrossii33635 жыл бұрын
That was one of the episodes that convinced me that Data already had emotions. Even if he is the only one that doesn't realize it. A truly emotionless logical android would have understood that Lal was beyond saving and simply given up. Data was attempting to save his child, and kept working long after he knew that she was dying when he couldn't do anything to stop it.
@seanmcgrath38265 жыл бұрын
@@henrynorcrossii3363 And then he transferred Lal's memories into his own brain as a final way of saving her, in a fashion; don't forget that
@meligoth5 жыл бұрын
So basically Data unlocks new abilities everytime he levels up.
@williamlloyd37693 жыл бұрын
Like a Tesla. This is the way.
@KeithenX3 жыл бұрын
Like he is someone avatar in a huge mmorpg lol
@TheAtHamptonDotCom3 жыл бұрын
"Robots don't have any emotions, and sometimes that makes me very sad" - B. B. Rodriguez
@GuitarsRockForever5 жыл бұрын
It was explained Data cannot survive in space for long term, he needs "air" as part of his heat management function.
@willgilliam90535 жыл бұрын
Cooling a real life satellite is quite a pain, since heat sinks normally transfer their heat to the air...
@Curas14 жыл бұрын
Then how did lore ?
@stuv19964 жыл бұрын
It's a small nitpick, but I believe he said that he can survive in space for a limited time, but did not imply if the length would be short or long.
@helifanodobezanozi76894 жыл бұрын
I would think his proximity to a heat source, like a star, would determine the length of time he/ they could spend in space. For instance, Pluto is a hell of a lot colder than Earth. If Lore were in deep interstellar space, then it could conceivably be a long time.
@kyle10784 жыл бұрын
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 External heat from the star wouldn't necessarily be the issue. The problem is the ability to transfer heat away from high energy internal components before they become too hot and fail, which would be difficult without some way to dump heat into the atmosphere. Given that his head functioned in hibernation mode for 500 years separated from his body though, it's implied he could go into shutdown mode to prevent heat buildup. Shutting down in this way would be essentially going into a coma as his life could resume unhindered once he was awakened, which is likely what Lore did.
@Lukos00365 жыл бұрын
"We're going to take a look at their nitty gritties!" Data: "I AM fully functional."
@jackssmirkingrevenge93655 жыл бұрын
homework; research the etymology of _nitty gritty_ then laugh merrily at its liberal use on television by those who would be horrified if they knew what it meant 👍
@Lukos00365 жыл бұрын
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/nitty-gritty.html Implied here is a debunking of it's alleged racist origins as the term appears post slavery. Though with slang one can never definitively nail down it's earliest roots. Try reading up on Polari by the way if you want to get really confused about how language works. It's dizzying.
@Tuning34345 жыл бұрын
@@jackssmirkingrevenge9365 Well, nowadays meeting is according to the usage by CI, the etymology is, for what I can tell, pretty vague and contested. The only thing we know for sure that it appeared in in 1920's Jazz slang.
@Lukos00365 жыл бұрын
@Zerebrat Eightyseven And Yar. And probably that crewman he dated for a while.
@wtfiswrongwithher17294 жыл бұрын
teehee :)
@nickthane5 жыл бұрын
"Being Lore appropriate". I see what you did there
@pwnmeisterage3 жыл бұрын
I always referred to Lore as "Bad Data". Yeah, a weak joke, but there it is.
@2006jakebob5 жыл бұрын
here's a fact a lot of people forget, his head is 500 years older than his body
@tendividedbysix48355 жыл бұрын
Ha I just watched that episode today actually.
@stuartmcclurey99265 жыл бұрын
@@tendividedbysix4835 Times Arrow.
@anonymousaccordionist33265 жыл бұрын
Was it not 500 years?
@DeathBYDesign6665 жыл бұрын
It was actually closer to 500 years. Late 19th to late 24th century.
@yalkn20735 жыл бұрын
500
@tempus_fugit73663 жыл бұрын
There was also mentioned in the TNG episode "Inheritance", that there is an algorithm that determines the random appearance of his blinking. But, because it is an algorithm, it is predictable and this is how he is able to determine that his "mother" is in fact another Soong type android.
@iTXivilai5 жыл бұрын
picking up an anvil with a pinch grip is indeed superhuman.
@MrMightyZ5 жыл бұрын
That's right. Not even The Mountain nor any of his Strongest Man competitors can achieve that. Even were your grip strong enough I think your fingertips would be ruined for a fortnight afterwards.
@PsionicMonk4 жыл бұрын
Haha I watched that episode not too long ago. Fantastic!
@pwnmeisterage3 жыл бұрын
He lifted that anvil effortlessly, like it was nothing more than a hollow plastic prop. Definitely superhuman.
@CriticalRoleHighlights5 жыл бұрын
It was confirmed in the show that his breathing is indeed a cooling function. One could also assume that his breathing works with both air and water, and that his systems will make do with only pumping cooling fluid in the vacuum of space since the parts of his body that are in shade would be quite cold.
@codercable90885 жыл бұрын
Cooling in space is a pain, as you cant use conduction/convection, only radiation. You actually dont freeze to death in a vacuum very quickly at all, just nothing to lose the heat to.
@JarOfRats5 жыл бұрын
Captain Riker- "Data, what happened to those MILLIONS of calculations per second?"
@zestydude875 жыл бұрын
Love that scene...
@JonnyInfinite4 жыл бұрын
Shall we end this charade?
@kellyweingart36924 жыл бұрын
“No you can’t, don’t even try”
@JarOfRats4 жыл бұрын
@@kellyweingart3692 "Shut up! As in CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!"
@greenaum3 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, we already knew Riker was an idiot. Incidentally those trillions of operations, what was it, 20 trillion / second? That's already outstripped by modern multi-core processors, some PCs have more data processing power than Data has. Of course you could argue over what an "operation" is. I imagine they came up with 20 trillion by taking the fastest computers of the day, multiplying by a thousand, adding a couple of zeros, then doubling it. Took, what, a bit under 30 years for that to be obsoleted. The first PCs didn't even do a million ops / sec, now they're in the hundred trillions.
@protiod5 жыл бұрын
Star Trek doesn't use bytes, it uses quads. They store much more information, since each bit can store 4 possible states instead of two. 8 binary bits can store 256 possible states. 8 quads can store 65,536. The difference gets even bigger with larger numbers.
@LewisUpperton5 жыл бұрын
While that is true, Data's err, data storage capacity was cited as 800 quadrillion bits in The Measure of a Man. Which is indeed 100 Petabytes
@LewisUpperton5 жыл бұрын
Actually that is not true. 8 bits can store 256 possible states
@Elliandr5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if these quads represent a type of analog bits. Contrary to popular belief, analog processors are actually superior to digital processors with a reduced heat output. It's just that they are much more difficult to program for. While a digital Boolean is either yes or no, an analog Boolean is either mostly yes or mostly no. If we used an analog processor, but artificially limited it to a set number of positions arbitrarily, we could probably get the best of both worlds. We are seeing more of them in used today because of of better energy efficiency over digital. A lot of people think that Moore's law has ended, but it really hasn't. Moore's Law is not about the speed of a computer but rather the number of transistors. The number of transistors have been increasing, but more transistors means more heat so work is being done on optimization, but with analog region on chips we can continue to increase the transistor count. We're seeing this right now in drones because Energy Efficiency is extremely important there, but we'll see this trickle into the rest of computing over time.
@BlokenArrow5 жыл бұрын
8 quadrillion bits is a terabyte, not a petabyte
@LewisUpperton5 жыл бұрын
@@BlokenArrow No. 8 million bits is a megabyte. 8 billion bits is a gigabyte. 8 trillion bits is a terabyte, and 8 quadrillion bits is a petabyte. Thus 800 quadrillion bits is 100 petabytes
@salenstormwing5 жыл бұрын
All data storage sizes shall now be described in units of Fallout 76 Day One patches.
@SqualidsargeStudios5 жыл бұрын
What and how would one go about this?
@guillaumekaas65055 жыл бұрын
" It just works! " ~ Dr Noonien Soong
@gerogefinkle47644 жыл бұрын
The upgraded data in the "Persistence of Memory" book series was awesome. Took everything missing in the TV series, and improved it to make him 10x more capable. Could even camoflage himself.
@DoctorX174 жыл бұрын
I find it funny that while certain elements of Data, such as his strength, human-like thinking, durability, and movement, are all far beyond what we could potentially create now, we can easily surpass his processing power and storage capacities. 60TFLOPS is pretty much nothing with a high core count CPU and a few GPUs, which could probably be crammed into a skull with the right cooling. 100PB isn't all that much, and could also be compacted pretty well.
@deathisonlythebeginning50982 жыл бұрын
2 years later? 100,000 terabytes is a lot for a personal computer. But using 50 terabytes per person, physically or online per year prob very feasible now.
@Delta094204 Жыл бұрын
True, but the was the 80s when all that computing power would have been considered tremendous.
@Mikisoq39 Жыл бұрын
Would be even funnier if someone makes a general AI that works with exactly those specs.
@julius-stark5 жыл бұрын
Also Data briefly had the ability to use contractions in the first season until they remembered he can't do that.
@patrickmccurry15635 жыл бұрын
And at least one episode where they accidentally let one through. He said, "it's me". I can't imagine the hassle of dealing with such continuity errors on set.
@FiXato5 жыл бұрын
While Data could not "master" contractions, he _could use them_. I see that as that he just wasn't sure when they would sound most natural. Also, Lal had developed a better control over contractions. Since he has reintegrated her into his own subroutines, it is also plausible that by that time his own understanding of them had improved. Finally, since he and his surroundings have become so accustomed to his speech mostly not including them, he could've also ended up making the conscious decision to not use them. Perhaps similar in a way to Stephen Hawking choosing to stick with his outdated CallText voice.
@ai68944 жыл бұрын
Also Data couldn't whistle in the pilot episode. Data, while "possessed" by Dr. Ira Graves, in season 2 could whistle.
@bryanx03174 жыл бұрын
@@FiXato Not trying to troll your comment but it is clearly stated many times HE CAN NOT use contractions. In fact there is a scene where Riker determines that he's talking to a false data because he uses a contraction.
@J0HNJ0RDAN4 жыл бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563 Especially with us "Trekkers" picking everything apart, haha.
@JimmyTurner5 жыл бұрын
1:25 forgot the scene where the Klingon headbuts him?
@glenwaldrop81665 жыл бұрын
That was awesome. They did the Klingon version of arm wrestling too and he stomped that guy and went right back to his book.
@The.Breakfast.Burrito5 жыл бұрын
7:03 The picture to the bottom left of the diagram shows that he didn't forget about the scene.
@JimmyTurner5 жыл бұрын
@@The.Breakfast.Burrito party pooper
@orangeSoda355 жыл бұрын
Data is also anatomically correct and he can vibrate. How else can you explain his numerous girlfriends while chief engineer Geordie was always being friend zoned??
@jwilliams7035 жыл бұрын
Geordie was friend zoned because he was just to nice of a guy.
@carlive95325 жыл бұрын
Geordie wasn't fully functional.
@espartacos15 жыл бұрын
Hahaha you filthy mined nerd
@TheBobasbro5 жыл бұрын
@@jwilliams703 before or after the Lea Braums Incel incident?
@TheBobasbro5 жыл бұрын
@@jwilliams703 or the time he used a woman's personal logs to try and force a romantic connection....
@SpockBorg55 жыл бұрын
Starfleet engineers could probably replicate the body, but not the brain
@DataLal3 жыл бұрын
Kind of makes one wonder how the transporter can do what it does without killing Data. (Although arguably, every time anyone or anything is transported, the original is effectively destroyed during matter-energy conversion, and a fresh copy is recreated during reconversion from energy to matter on the other end.) The fact that the transporter can even *flawlessly* transport a human body and brain (with very occasional failures) is astounding!
@chefjamesmacinnis4 жыл бұрын
if data's character was conceived today instead of the 80's I wonder how different this 24th century android would be? I bet he would have some type of wifi and we'd never see him "reading" from the enterprise library.
@alphabettical14 жыл бұрын
It would probably be like how Seven of Nine and the Doctor can access large amounts of information from databases
@dakotahrickard3 жыл бұрын
I think it would still depend on design philosophy. Data's reclusive, eccentric designer preferred books, whereas we see that Star Trek has long predicted wireless interconnectivity with the PADDs and tricorders being noted Federation examples of the technology, and with the Borg in general being a wirelessly connected species.
@IN-tm8mw5 жыл бұрын
I remember his Type R Phase Discriminator the most. i loved how adjusting it allowed him to shift out of Phase and interact with other beings in Time's Arrow episode.
@virt1one3 жыл бұрын
and Lor's was type L as I recall
@mikesurlygentlemanwalton5 жыл бұрын
Well already we know that Data is fully equipped...
@Elliandr5 жыл бұрын
Artificial neural networks are actually here. The openworm project, for example, was used to create the world's first free willed robot powered by the literal brain of a flatworm. Granted, it's brain was very simple, but it was perfectly simulated to be indistinguishable from a real flesh-and-blood brain. There are also projects by IBM to simulate a mouse brain in the same way, and even if we can't get full speed out of it from the perspective of the mouse being simulated time is moving normally. Very early versions of this could be seen in a game called creatures by cyber-life back in the 90s. This wasn't a fully simulated connectome, but the creatures were programmed with a simulated neurology and simulated biochemistry. They took the approach of biochemical drives and the creatures could learn and adapt and make their own decisions.
@EnDSchultz15 жыл бұрын
I remember Creatures. Loved that game.
@Elliandr5 жыл бұрын
@@EnDSchultz1 That's actually why I still run Windows 9X in a virtual machine, since it's the only way to play it with ALL genetics files and community add-ons is. One problem with the drive system though is that if all needs are met creatures will spend generations in one area. Then again, the same could be said for humans.
@rupertmiller96905 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the work you put into this channel. You're making people happy, me included.
@renegadephoenixmedia56845 жыл бұрын
A very good concise overview of Data's Specs and Capabilities. One thing you didn't mention regarding his "technology" is how SOUNDLESS his servos and other mechanical components are, at least when he was no internal components showing. You can't hear any sounds of machinery when he's "on" or moving. In fact often in the show people have mistaken him for an actual organic life-form even when standing right next to him. Perhaps his "skin" help to deaden the sounds or else his components are incredibly advance and constantly well lubricated to not make any sound.
@gravyboat23704 жыл бұрын
Data is a fantastic character invention . Really enhanced this brilliant series. Particularly liked the episode where he took control of the enterprise when he neared his home planet despite the best efforts of the crew. Somebody good to have with you in a fight 🖒
@energicko5 жыл бұрын
Data with blue eyes in the "Parallels" episode was interesting. Somewhere in the omniverse, is a cyborg-not android-with a positronic brain.🤔 In the comics, Mirror universe Data looked like Lore with Borg upgrades. 🤪
@AGP5104 жыл бұрын
That subtle 76 burn deserves a chefs kiss
@ThommyofThenn Жыл бұрын
Your videos are .....fully functional...at providing me hours of joy. I'm finally subscribing to your channel. I regret it took so long !
@golgarisoul5 жыл бұрын
I am honesty surprised that not every single response is "fully functional" related.
@nurburgringkid3 жыл бұрын
videos like this are what make the internet is still worthwhile.
@UncleMikeDrop5 жыл бұрын
To be fair, Federation sciences and engineers have the necessary understanding to construct android bodies similar to Data's Soong type body. It's his positronic brain that they can't figure out because.....reasons.
@TymersRealm5 жыл бұрын
Well the federation has always had problems in AI development.
@UncleMikeDrop5 жыл бұрын
@@TymersRealm There were a few isolated incidents most notably, the M-5 supercomputer, but the problem with it was that its central processor was modeled after the neurological profile of its creator who was mentally unstable to say the least. Replicating the Soong type android should be relatively simple in the TNG era. Transporter, replicator, and holographic technology would make such a task relatively easy. Replicator technology shares the same basic technological principle as a transporter as it is an energy/matter conversion system. Data has been successfully transported on numerous occasions and his transporter patterns are on file. That means that the exact composition of his constituent parts and component materials are on file as he can be successfully disassembled and reassembled at the sub-molecular level. As far as AI is concerned, they know how to make holographic representations of people who possess a faximily of the full mental/emotional spectrum. With the advent of replicator and holographic technology, there is no in universe reason why anything that can be transported can't also be replicated. They can't replicate a positronic brain because tech tech plot service quantum.
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
@@UncleMikeDrop the problem is the scratch built part. Processing is easy its writing the code for the mind. Take into account the only reason the robots in "Quality of life" were as intelligent as Data is because they had self repair systems for their positronic brains and self built their mental pathways. The EMH and its derivatives were mental scans of existing brains or based off of scripts( like Moriarty).
@UncleMikeDrop5 жыл бұрын
@@barrybend7189 No it's really not as they have built multiple AI units from scratch and custom parts become irrelevant when you can literally convert energy into matter. There is no in universe reason why they can't mass produce the soong type android.
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
@@UncleMikeDrop no I'm saying Soonge made and grew what can be considered human from scratch. Starfleet never attempted to make their own human intelligence. EMH had operational restrictions and holoprogram AI were very simple in comparison to the EMH( unless glitches and continued operations be damned). Data did not have any Human derived architecture in his positronic brain. Think how Doctor Light in Megaman built X. Without assistance or medical scans made a mind equal to humans.
@nvfury133 жыл бұрын
I wish they had done an episode with the fully sapient androids they ran into in TOS, they were only sealed into that asteroid.
@numinous47895 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great vid on one of the most beloved ST characters of all time!
@foofoo33445 жыл бұрын
Surprisingly, Data is so advanced that even the Borg can't reprogram him. Not only that, the Borg also can't break any encryptions made by Data.
@rolandet3 жыл бұрын
aah the good old Starfleet Technical Manual' Chapter one: Thank you for purchasing our Soong-type Android.
@FlamingoKicker5 жыл бұрын
In TOS there were a couple of episodes where some unnamed (and unknown) civilizations conveniently produced some pretty advanced androids that the crew of the Enterprise got to encounter but strangely nothing further came from any of those encounters at least as far as cybernetics went. I forget the titles but one was the one where Nurse Chapel reconnects with an old boyfriend who turned out to be a robotic version of the original guy (and Lurch was in that one too) and then that Harry Mudd episode where he was trapped on a world of androids (one of which just happened to look like his ex-wife). So they had pretty advanced androids quite a while before Dr. Soong made his breakthroughs.
@thatrealba4 жыл бұрын
There are books that explore the wider world of Data learning about other AI in the Trek universe, and man that book is fantastic. Sadly, I do not remember the title of the book.
@adamgodar64253 жыл бұрын
Immortal Coil
@melvincunningham56602 жыл бұрын
The episodes are "What Little Girls Are Made Of and "I,Mudd".
@PotatoePriest5 жыл бұрын
My favorite memory was during the trial where you find out he loved tasha yar and misses her
@virt1one3 жыл бұрын
"Our relationship was.... special."
@TomUlcak4 жыл бұрын
Ok, best one of your videos I've watched. Most tend to ramble at the end with no satisfying conclusion.
@jwilliams7035 жыл бұрын
I love Data. seeing him become more and more human like through the series was very enjoyable. When he died I actually cried a bit. I cant wait to see how B4 with Data's memories has progressed.
@Bob35195 жыл бұрын
He bent a steel bar? So he's a bending unit?
@nottsork5 жыл бұрын
Those specs and measurements actually came from the TNG episode , “the most Toys “ when a collectors assistant scanned his weights and measures to fake his death
@epiendless11284 жыл бұрын
In part, but I also recognised the composition of this skull from "The Chase".
@slaughterofelysium3 жыл бұрын
8:04 the diagram says "cat memes, personality, functions, ship operations, arty stuff, memories, electric sheep, comedy studies" and I find this hilarious.
@DoubleD197883 жыл бұрын
Best character to come out of the Star Trek universe.
@XeroEX5 жыл бұрын
11:05 anyone else realize the fact that he's wearing the skin of his assimilated crewmates? just me? Okay.
@henrynorcrossii33635 жыл бұрын
It was supposed to be synthetic skin use for medical grafts.
@fred216794 жыл бұрын
@XeroEX ...pretty sure the borg knew how to grow skin at that point. But funny thought! 😂
@jt0n4 жыл бұрын
Same here, data ain't special
@jeffhallam20045 жыл бұрын
AMAZING! I like these unique and side bar videos! Thank you!
@theatheistpaladin5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but can he run Crysis?
@wyldink15 жыл бұрын
Maybe or maybe not, but when we've got Doom running on toasters these days, I guarantee you that he has that somewhere in there.
@johnsansker70644 жыл бұрын
@ TheAtheistPaladin No, the real question is, can he run Trespasser?
@margotrosendorn63714 жыл бұрын
Data's height and weight in US measurements are 5'10" and ~220 lbs
@adamdaichendt38383 жыл бұрын
Thank you👍
@PolarBear-rc4ks5 жыл бұрын
'Electric sheep' Data = Android Me = 😏
@christophernanez783 жыл бұрын
The day one patch joke was unexpected. Thanks for the laugh.
@Dzeroed5 жыл бұрын
Dunno about that anvil thing, it was a workshop anvil which are up to 500lbs. But it wasn't the weight so much as the _way_ he picked it up. He lifted that giant hunk of iron like we would pick up a can of soup or a dropped pencil! I would say that's superhuman- and although I can't remember the episode precisely (I think it was either the one with Bruce Maddox or the one where Data created Lal), I'm almost certain they stated on the show that he had indeed, superhuman strength.
@brianoconnell64594 жыл бұрын
A good example of how Data can get "viruses" was the Contagion episode of TNG, where he was infected by an Iconian code that interfered with his operating system so to speak. Took a hard reboot for him to return to life and to normal, before they realized they needed to do the same with the computer core of the Enterprise D (and the Romulan ship facing them off).
@brianoconnell64594 жыл бұрын
Interesting thing of note, that even I didn't know, one of the writers was Steve Gerber, better known for Howard the Duck. The comic, not the movie.
@asvarien5 жыл бұрын
I choose to ignore Data being effected by the polywater intoxication because it is just so ridiculous. I think the writers had him affected because they just couldn't come up with away for the ship to be in mortal danger without Data being comprimised. There have been other episodes where Data had to be gotten out of the way in order for the story to work, for example Picard randomly chooses Data to accompany him chasing down a rogue torpedo while the crew of the Enterprise are de-evolved by the Barclay virus.
@bobblum59735 жыл бұрын
In that episode (called "The Naked Now", I think) I tend to agree with you. If I recall the production schedule for TNG at the time was so tight that they resorted to re-using "The Naked Time" from TOS with minor tweaks. First seasons are hard for series, so I don't blame them too much. Different writers for different episodes can cause continuity errors, and needing to work around someone or something. How many times do the transporters fail so they can't be used to save everyone, right away? I try to understand the limitations of budget and time and just enjoy the show anyway. :) It may be a bit of a stretch, but I don't think Data was intoxicated the same way the organics were. Instead, he may have appeared drunk because his higher functions were receiving corrupted information. He was able to perform tasks like inserting the isolinear chips when told to (and yes, helping Tasha when she asked him), but his judgement was impaired. It could even have been something like him being programmed to be "drunk" under the proper conditions.
@virt1one3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure Data was a headache for a great deal of writers. He wasn't the only thing writers had to work around though. Just think of how many episodes would be over immediately or have absolutely no danger involved if the transporters and warp core ejection systems weren't always going offline? A good chunk of many episode writings had to involve how to invent a new McGuffin to make the obvious solution unavailable. I think *at least once* we should have seen them do a successful warp core ejection and explosion, to prove to the audience that it wasn't a joke of a safety measure, considering just how dangerous a damaged warp core was, time and time again.
@asvarien3 жыл бұрын
@@virt1one Voyager did a real warp core ejection and recovery at least twice. Insurrection did a core ejection and detonation against the son'a subspace weapon.
@brotherandrew33933 жыл бұрын
The point is that we do not need humanlike robots or androids. If you see the new robots of Boston Dynamics they are developed for purposes that do not require a humanlike body or the ability to speak.
@Nige0310775 жыл бұрын
1 Dislike? 😕 Must've been Lore or The Borg as a collective comment of Trek KZbin videos.
@TheYoungcrane5 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Lore has been deactivated so my guess is either it was The Borg like you said or it was Armus.
@asvarien5 жыл бұрын
It was Tasha Yar because she said to Data when she'd recovered "It! Never! Happened!" Although I got the implication that she shagged half the crew while she was afflicted.
@sparkymist5 жыл бұрын
Youngcrane or maybe the Borg queen, she is still probably mad data and Picard fuck her up.
@sirthom32755 жыл бұрын
or someone who wants standard measurements also.
@pointlessopinion6115 жыл бұрын
@@TheYoungcrane , that doesn't happen until several hundred yrs from now so.......maybe?
@garydoc14595 жыл бұрын
It was stated that he has the strength of 10 men and his daughter was 5.
@hoffenwurdig1356 Жыл бұрын
f one pays close attention what Captian Picard says about Data’s daughter, Lal -- he stated that Lal had “the strength of ten men.” That is, we can suppose Data’s sttrength approaches or slightly exceeds this value.
@RoyLeblancMMJReviewsIE5 жыл бұрын
I love how detailed you are in your videos
@RimWulf3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact that mask that data put on his face is one of the casts made from Brent's face I believe it was to make one of Data's heads.
@arekpetrosian49653 жыл бұрын
Considering what they've shown the transporter capable of doing, they don't need to understand how Data works to replicate him. Having a ship crewed entirely by "Data's" would be a piece of cake.
@virt1one3 жыл бұрын
Replicators have some limitations: 1. copies made by replicators are known to create "single bit errors" that are detectable. You can't really make an exact copy, down to the molecular level. replicators average things out. If you replicate a block of copper, you will get an identical looking block of copper, probably effectively a crystal, that lacks single-atom defects in the original (yes, metal crystal, go look up jet turbine blade manufacture) 2. replicated items are usually without power and must be charged. this is demonstrated in STTNG as well as in DS9. Remember those phaser pucks that appeared in all the food replicators when tarac-nor's computer came back to life? It materialized the puck, THEN dumped in the energy to charge it. And in STTNG where they were examining a federation phaser trying to prove it was a fake, they said it had to be *charged*, and it was firing too efficiently and must have been charged by a romulan power source. 3. similar to 1/2, the synapse configuration in data's positronic matrix probably cannot be replicated. Soon's wifedroid said that "creating a stable positronic matrix is VERY tricky". Clearly if they could have just replicated LOR's matrix they would have done so. It looks like it has to be hand-made. Again, Data would have replicated his to make Lal if that had been an option. 4. I also vaguely recall an episode where an isolinear chip or memory module or something like that was studied and determined to be a fake, not because the chip itself could be proven a fake, but that the energy signature on the recording also contained 'single bit errors', and when the computer was asked what the source was, it said "replication". In that case the modules WORKED fine, but were clearly not *identical*, at an atomic level. As for transporters, there have been many examples of something being duplicated, merged, or separated via a transporter, but those cases were always "extreme, unreproducible, freak accident" type situations or something extremely specific or campy. (like de-aging polaski using a hair follicle) As a general rule, you can't (reliably) use a transporter to make an exact copy of something. I suspect this is because making the pattern destroys the original, and making the copy (at the destination) destroys the pattern. The replicators contain a "Heisenberg compensator", but technically that's not required. You only need that IF you are trying to create a copy. Without that, copies are not ok, but teleportation IS ok. You *can* make an exact copy, so long as making the copy destroys the original. (though how you're going to get it down to the planet without a receiving pad to build the copy, that's the real magic!) So again, no using the transporter to clone Data. IMHO if they wanted to be consistent they shouldn't have included the Heisenberg compensator at all, because that just suggests you CAN use the transporter to make copies, and that would have broken SO many episodes....
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
Now talk about Dr. Light robots.
@lorgrenbenirus5 жыл бұрын
We can't even figure out how we work and decide about things, what makes us really "tick", so yeah, we definitely should not try to create any AI yet...
@nottsork5 жыл бұрын
What is it exactly that stops his positronic brain from exploding since a positron is an antimatter electron
@himynameisben955 жыл бұрын
There's a season 7 episode where Data mentions breathing as a method of cooling, I believe. I watched it a couple of days ago
@beepthemeep125 жыл бұрын
S6. Birthright p1
@patrickmccurry15635 жыл бұрын
That's painfully dumb though. His observed exertions would require him to blast out super heated gas to have any real effect of cooling. And obviously would render him quickly "dead" in a vacuum.
@LaserGryph Жыл бұрын
2:08 Missed opportunity to say, "ugly giant bags of mostly water."
@SuperGamefreak185 жыл бұрын
It was the episode when a child tried to act like him after taking a liking to him where he said that his breathing and coolant sweating was to cool his interior systems
@dustyprater78845 жыл бұрын
Great Video!! I wonder how Data's body repairs itself from everyday wear and tear. Anyway, keep up the good work, sir!!😁
@ThomasPlatt19755 жыл бұрын
There was a book that I read about his body being able to repair through the use of nanobots in his cooling fluid.
@dustyprater78845 жыл бұрын
@@ThomasPlatt1975 Cool. Sorta like the Borg. Thanks Thomas.😁😁
@ThomasPlatt19755 жыл бұрын
It was Star trek the next generation the light fantastic
@dustyprater78845 жыл бұрын
@@ThomasPlatt1975 Thanks I'll check it out.
@darrensmith69995 жыл бұрын
Awesome Rick thank you
@hughlion18174 ай бұрын
Qualcomm's new SnapDragon Elite-X Chip features neural-acceleration hardware capable of 45 Trillion Operations per Second and whats more its among the first chips intended to run local LLMs (large language models like chatGPT). seeing us nearly surpassing the fictional specs makes me realize how quickly we are progress
@shado2us5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Rick!!! Awesome video, brother!!!
@elizdonovan56504 жыл бұрын
Loved data. So logical. So wanting to learn. So honest. So unassuming etc etc etc 🌲🌝☘️
@CsykKrit4 жыл бұрын
Y'all know he's the Pinocchio of the series, right. I grew up on this, TNG is my favorite show of all time. And the similarities between this and classic literature is satisfying.
@ewitte125 жыл бұрын
My mom went to high school with him but the geeks and theater people didn't interact much. There were a few other people that came out of that school during the same timeframe. Ironically nearby is "Jess Borg field" that always makes me laugh when I drive by.
@occultatumquaestio52265 жыл бұрын
I do hope we get more detail on how Data functions in ST Picard.
@cyruskarloff72195 жыл бұрын
Not me. Do you demand the working specs of your friends. :-)
@drunkrdm5 жыл бұрын
cat memes.. electric sheep... arty stuff? and the size of the cat memes? you couldn't resist.. could you...
@kargaroc386 Жыл бұрын
Reminder that Picard himself is now a soong-type android
@briankleinschmidt3664 Жыл бұрын
An after market emotion chip. We could all use such an upgrade.
@Gollammeister Жыл бұрын
Basically data could outsmart or fold a person like a pretsel without bursting a hydraulic line
@Dooks1 Жыл бұрын
it would be interesting to see an analysis of Data's programming overtaking Lore's and B4's from ST:PICARD
@jupamoers2 жыл бұрын
Corenide...Core...Kore...Adam Soong's daughter. The painting made by Data, named "Daughter" ... I see a connection there
@roy1701d5 жыл бұрын
What, no mention of the "fully functional" aspects of Data's abilities? 😆
@igorivanov2993 жыл бұрын
Ask Tasha Yar
@theyarehere89195 жыл бұрын
Why do Star Ships have their running lights flashing in outer space?
@cyruskarloff72195 жыл бұрын
Some do some don't. Cultural Decision.
@henrynorcrossii33635 жыл бұрын
With Federation vessels it could be the only legal way for them to operate. Perhaps they only appear to look like standard running lights, but they have other subspace functionality for navigation purposes.
@theyarehere89195 жыл бұрын
@@henrynorcrossii3363 NO.
@henrynorcrossii33635 жыл бұрын
@@theyarehere8919 could you clarify your statement? I posited a possible reason for their running/navigation lights, and you didn't give a canon reason for my reason to be wrong. So I can ignore your statement at this time.
@menghao7374 жыл бұрын
I dunno, maybe signaling a turn? I doubt it though, most of the people on earth don't bother to do it, why would they in space?
@glenwaldrop81665 жыл бұрын
At 7:38 is Lor. I find it interesting that ee can tell the difference between nearly identical characters played by the same actors.
@Turboy654 жыл бұрын
It's more likely that Data's skeletal motor system is an advanced piezoelastic polymer based artificial muscle technology. It's simple to fabricate and install. Simply applying electrical impulses stimulates contraction of the piezomuscle. With integrated positional sensors, it creates a simple basis for a movement servo system.
@crankyartist1115 жыл бұрын
You might have mentioned it but Data also has super fast reflexes. Several times he instantly reacts to something with lightning speed, such as when early on in the show a plant strikes out at Geordie and Data instantly catches it the moment it moves. Or when someone threw something at his head while his back was turned and he was able to easily catch what was thrown with barely a second to react. He's also able to type super fast. His eyes are also able to detect the slightest of movements, hence how he knew time wasnt frozen but was actually just moving immensely slowly (I dont remember what the episode is called. Its the one where Picard draws a smiley face in the smoke from the warp core). Also I don't recall Data ever using infrared vision. Does anyone know an example of when he does cuz I dont recall his eyes ever being used in that way.
@Arvis1593 жыл бұрын
Something talking specifically about Voyager's EMH (The Doctor) would be awesome.
@jacksavere69885 жыл бұрын
Great video dude! I'd love to see a video about David 8 from Prometheus/Covenant if you're interested (great character, not so great films lol)
@dustinshadle7325 жыл бұрын
There is nothing stopping Data from building another android with the new knowledge since his first limited success.
@VCYT4 жыл бұрын
After 'accessing' this video, i found it most 'intriguing'.
@captainbryce15 жыл бұрын
4:25, Data wouldn't need "thermal regulation" if he was underwater or in a vacuum, as both a lake and outer space are very cold. That's why he can stop "breathing" and still be okay for an extended period of time.
@Lakillika4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing off the Nebula class starship !!!
@Marcus510905 жыл бұрын
I’d say gordi had extensive knowledge probs classed as an expert on Soong type androids. He should have installed a personal shield I think in the Picard series data’s brain and been uploaded into the computer, and he can appear as a hologram now.
@Marin3r1015 жыл бұрын
Wtf this is repulsive syntax. It just about gave me cancer....
@codercable90885 жыл бұрын
One thing, and everyone does this. Data states that his positronic network can perform 60 trillion calculations a second, and everyone compares it to modern computers, and talks about flops. Data never states that what he is talking about are floating point operations. Given that his system runs on positrons (the anti-matter version of an electron), I would guess he is a quantum computer, which means his operations are not directly comparable to the flops of a traditional system.
@oldtwinsna83472 жыл бұрын
Best post I've seen in this thread. Pretty crazy how people think we're talking about 1+1 as an operation. Downright ridiculous, really. The whole OPS was hotly contested as having any true value even back in the late 70s when Cray computers came about and personal desktop computers appeared. For all we know, one OPS in TNG time is equal to all of computing tasks currently done on Earth 2022 over a whole year. Also, OPS of current supercomputers and even low-level microprocessors use multi-core and multi-processor clusters to get their "speed" - there is premise that Data's computation is the equivalent of single-core! We can't come close to that kind of technology today on a single core basis.
@SubjectMRF375 жыл бұрын
He is fully equipped and functional
@jimmeier5475 жыл бұрын
The anvil Data picked up is actually closer to a 128 lb anvil. Still heavy, but not as large or heavy as larger metal working shop anvils.
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
So Data is technically considered a Mutos reploid from Megaman zero?
@lukasperuzovic14295 жыл бұрын
Data lacks any animistic traits, so no.
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
@@lukasperuzovic1429 Mutos replies also include the human looking ones. You know the resistance reploids are considered mutos type.
@richardlahan70685 жыл бұрын
What?
@barrybend71895 жыл бұрын
@@richardlahan7068 Megaman lore move along.
@lukasperuzovic14295 жыл бұрын
Trust Data not Lore. Get this Megaman stuff out of my Trek
@gallendugall89135 жыл бұрын
I kept looking at the nebula and wondering why then I remembered the Sullivan. Nice ship.
@W34T13Y3 жыл бұрын
I would like a robot companion able to prevent a Ford fiesta from running me down. Boston Dynamics, get on this!