"Regenesis" Star Trek Lower Decks

[@captaintalon4485]

You know it's nice to have a supercomputer that doesn't have a case of megalomania

[@musicmiester300]

Theoretically it's easy to do. Programming a machine with artificial emotions and knowledge always turns south. Best way to do it is to teach them this stuff personally. Like teaching a child.

[@bthsr7113]

@@musicmiester300 Person Of Interest would agree. If it thinks and feels like a human, treat it like a human.

[@adamhinton3441]

@@musicmiester300 worked for Gaia in zero dawn so I agree

[@gustavowendell7937]

​@@adamhinton3441oh yeah i remember her, shes nice😊 But her subordinate fuctions... Well they are Just parts of her mind, but still Very dangerous.

[@adamhinton3441]

@@gustavowendell7937 more like they were meant to be non sentient AI she controlled till an outside force did something to them basically you get both scenarios of what happens when you raise a sentient AI as apposed to just making them.

[@SlideIX]

“Just got to quickly undo all the work I just did” One of the most realistic lines about work said in Trek ever and it flies almost completely under the radar 😂

[@davivignola5895]

You know, Ransom has really developed as a good commander and interesting character.

[@davivignola5895]

And Captain Freeman pulled a Mariner, imho.

[@BibgyBC]

The only thing I'm wondering is, was he faking while talking about art?

[@OmniGundam777]

⁠@@BibgyBCit’s way funnier if he wasn’t, so I’m gonna say he does know stuff about art.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

A lot of people don't know because they regularly update their systems: In professional IT, especially for companies whose systems date back to the 1980s and 1990s, _you do not update the system immediately because things WILL break._ Things like production-level software the company needs to make money. If that system stops, company loses millions a day, sometimes millions an _hour._ Worse, updating systems without checking what can be affected can result in data loss, meaning that if the company doesn't have a backup solution, that data is gone forever unless you pay thousands for a forensic data recovery service. So there has to be a transition for such large and old systems to ensure that as few customers see the effects of the update, but inevitably there will be service interruptions, and it has to be planned over the course of months or years. It is very clear that Captain Freeman's "archaic technology" training was completely inadequate for this task.

[@bthsr7113]

Well it was only a minor, not a major.

[@redrasegarden]

…yes…those are words…that you said…

[@MikMoen]

Isn't it so FUN to realize our very way of life hinges on the continued stability of a relatively fragile technology?

[@stevetheduck1425]

I remember SF stories written in the very early 1960s where only a few people knew how to update or improve systems without causing data loss or disaster. 1970s film like Rollerball (original) also pointed this out. One incident led to the complete loss of the 13th century. 'A few wars, couple of corrupt popes, nothing important...' Glad to see nothing has changed after 50 years.

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

I recall during the Pandemic one US state couldn't fix their computer systems that were getting overloaded because nobody knew the archaic code language the system used

[@AmericanArchon]

Don't you hate it when you evolve into 5th Dimensional energy beings *just* before your PC updates?

[@captaintalon4485]

Typical Windows bricking your system on every update

[@Historyfrek4ever]

Pretty sure the constant updates were what gave them the motivation to evolve beyond need for computers.

[@redrasegarden]

Ugh, so inconsiderate

[@daniels7907]

Plus, what kind of IT people ascend to a higher plane of existence on a weekend? That's when you're supposed to do updates! Couldn't they wait until Monday? Rude!

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

They didn't ACTUALLY ascend. The Great Journey is a lie.

[@MegaKnight2012]

3:10 Pretty sure "initiating fjords" is a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference. Arthur Dent meets one of the designers of Earth who's specialty was Norway.

[@cadror26]

Koala help those Corazonians if a Doopler ever visits.

[@heatherweir8726]

A good captain delegates tasks to who ever is best suited to it.

[@CJMarketman]

0:51 But... but... but... she minored in Archaic Technology back at the academy!

[@thefool1188]

She has been criticized for micro managing before also

[@CS-bu7lo]

​@@thefool1188Well, to be fair, the moment she stopped micro-managing, her away team ,on a seemingly non-dangerous mission, was trapped in a Collector Death Traps ship and the security officer that was supposed to guard& lead the away team was turned into a puppet... 😅 The captain said herself that if that's the bad result of her no-micro-managing, she would continue to micro-manage.

[@Ostermond]

Shame Vexilon didn’t say “reticulating splines” when rebooting the ringworld’s terrain. Would’ve been a small joke, but there’d be a number of us would’ve gotten it for sure!

[@atigerclaw]

Maybe... But then again, the vocabulary it was using was kind of... mystic/mythic aesthetic? Fjords, Miasma, Primordial Ooz. I get 'cultists in robes' vibe from that word group. 'Reticulating Splines' would be a bit of a jolt.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

I didn't even think of that and now it's something I dearly wish they did.

[@parrot998]

​@@atigerclaw... Which would make it funny. The key to comedy is the unexpected.

[@atigerclaw]

@@parrot998 Some people say the key to comedy is timing. Just ask the Spanish Inquisition. *Points at door as three men dressed in red burst through.* "NO ONE EXPECTS THE- wait... He was expecting us. How does that-...?"

[@parrot998]

@@atigerclaw It is both that are necessary.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

"Just an amateur lack of focus and balance", damn dude, I thought you guys were supposed to be peaceful.

[@EmonWBKstudios]

And I thought Janeway was the murderous one.

[@Guruc13]

It's always hard giving constructive feedback. This was not that ❤🎉

[@redrasegarden]

I can’t tell if ransoms being pretentious, faking it, or has a genuine opinion on art.

[@JohnEusebioToronto]

I think he means it. Dudes not just a meat head! He has gains everywhere.

[@redrasegarden]

@@JohnEusebioToronto he dose? Kinda cool

[@Mandalorianof501st]

Congratulations captain. Once again you’ve solved a problem That you pretty much caused

[@deathking1019]

so basically like every star trek captain

[@red-eyespundragon9920]

I mean to be fair that would have been what happened if they did nothing she speed it up but fixed it pretty quick without any loss of life that we saw

[@matthew1kalasky351]

​@@deathking1019Or Jimmy Neutron.

[@MoeLaneIII]

@@deathking1019 In the finest traditions of Starfleet.

[@IloveJellow]

so the real issue was the computer was hitting an brick wall after being active all those years without new space to move into which was causing things to glitch out.. freeman basically did a hard reset on the AI so that means the AI that existed before that is pretty much dead.

[@Guruc13]

Oof. Maybe just gloss over that one real quickly in the Captain's logs. 😅 Temporary interruption of consciousness. Could have been death, maybe just a nap! Who *REALLY* knows, right?

[@RaisinHook]

nah it wakes back up at the end of the episode and continues normal opperations

[@stevena488]

What a nice Super Computer.

[@redrasegarden]

I like him

[@duomaxwell6523]

I somehow expected someone to scream "THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING" like Chicken Little, but Vexillon LITERALLY made the sky fall in the forms of clouds crashing down into solid ice!

[@MnJiman]

Its a great joke, that's why it didn't need explaining.

[@_M_643]

POV: The server has stopped but the clients still think they are connected to it

[@Anglomachian]

At least Guilty Spark didn't try to reset the geological clock.

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

No, but he DID almost nuke the galaxy.

[@mirrorman95]

The audio starts almost okay, but then gets more and more out of sync with the video.

[@gamerboiiiiiii]

Wait- so safe-modes arent common anymore?

[@alexv1154]

most computers still have them, but they work a bit differently now iirc

[@stevetheduck1425]

People who have never heard of them are very common, yes.

[@rakaydosdraj8405]

Safe modes in starfleet? What kind of organization do you think this is?

[@Lightescape1]

I really like the way it cuts off before the ending.... just like a briken ancient computer would do....

[@dawnofapril3055]

I sympathize with them, I had to go through these same update issues whenever there's a new PS4 patch.

[@tssteelx]

F'ning windows 11!

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Never would've happened with Linux.

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

Get Bill Gates in here! (To Bill Gates) You told us Windows 11 would be faster, and more efficient, with better access to the Internet!

[@CJMarketman]

0:51 Dontchu worry, Cap'n Freeman's got this. She's gotchu... Probably.

[@margotrosendorn6371]

At least it's not Vista...

[@damson3413]

massive halo reference.

[@MisterMarin]

Death by snu-snu? No? Okay. 😛

[@be6386]

0:07 0:13

[@wolfness27]

Another typical freeman screw up.

[@SmartSmears]

I feel like that is a mistake anyone could have made, other than she should have called the engineer sooner

[@wolfness27]

​@@SmartSmearsMaybe anyone with a big ego, instead of admitting she had no idea what she was doing she risked the lives of everyone on the planet and almost killed Boimler.

[@captaintalon4485]

I mean how many system updates have you had that went sideways?

[@wolfness27]

@@captaintalon4485 Honestly, just once, but my updates don't decide the fate of an entire planet.

[@TheKrstff]

And once again, Freeman doesn't feel any remorse or even admit to her fuck up. They've done such a good job of turning her from likeable and into a complete irredeemable monster.

[@woodysmith2681]

Totally unrealistic episode because Microsoft wasn't 6 million years old by that star-date.

[@Spaceagefox]

this is why you what your megastructural managerial AI's to run off linux as a core platform