From: Sehkenenra (Sehkenenra@netzero.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 16:30:46 MDT
>The upside was that these are all in mainstream (cult) culture. The
downside
>is that they portrayed them as imperfect procedures. Nurse Chapel's fiance
>lost all emotion. Sargon's companions decided they would rather steal
living
>bodies instead of being trapped in "lifeless robots". And the "live
forever"
>scenario was offered as a bribe to Uhura when she (supposedly) betrayed the
>captain.
There were also two upload scenarios I can recall from Star Trek: TNG... the
first was when the crew met Dr. Soong's (Data's creator) mentor, a computer
scientist dying of a terminal illness, who uploaded his consciousness into a
computer and then into Data, whose personality was noticeably changed by the
new program. The second incident was when the crew met Dr. Soong's wife,
who later in the episode turned out to be a robotic recreation of the actual
woman, who had died in an accident. The episode implied that her memories
had been uploaded into the android.
-Nicq MacDonald
Former Trekkie
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