Timeline for Why does Data have to use a computer in Star Trek?
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| May 15, 2016 at 21:12 | answer | added | c1646091 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 15:41 | comment | added | The Spooniest | @Praxis: Point taken: he wasn't designed to function as a crew member, per se. But more generally, he was designed to function as a person, in an environment with other people, and so the need to be understood still holds. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 7:14 | comment | added | Praxis | @TheSpooniest : Data was absolutely not "designed to function as a crew member". He was found by chance on the planet Omicron Theta by Starfleet officers, and his own career in Starfleet came later. See my answer below. | |
| Jan 8, 2015 at 17:40 | answer | added | Praxis | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 25, 2014 at 21:30 | comment | added | Florian F | For the same reason digital cameras make a shutter sound. To let humans know what he is doing. He wants to show he is not just standing there idly. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | allquixotic | youtube.com/watch?v=IPphyjkXnPc | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | The Spooniest | He's designed to function as a crew member, and that means other crew members need to understand what he's doing. Any "efficiency" gains from his using own dedicated interface would be negated by a need to constantly explain everything to everyone around him. Given this, it is far more elegant to instead use the same interface that all other crew members use, because then they only need to watch. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 5:51 | answer | added | Dacio | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | I always thought that data sought to imitate humans as good as possible. Having a direct interface to the ships computer doesn't look like a good human imitation. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Einer: Okay but if he has the time to write subroutines for singing, opera, being polite and having sex, surely a couple of function calls wouldn't hurt at some point in the seven years! | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 18:16 | comment | added | Einer | @LightnessRacesinOrbit I was talking about the answer joshbirk gave: It was a design-flaw. Or more precisely: No-one took the time to implement it because nobody thought it would be that necessary: It's an E MH. Otherwise I totally agree with you. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 18:10 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Einer: Kyle makes a good point, but as a senior software developer I can tell you that it's not good enough. He could be made to interface just behind the console display technology and still enjoy vast efficiency improvements without compromising any of the factors Kyle talks about. It's called re-usable code. There is no need to keep it physical. Obviously the reason is that it would be well boring if we never saw him do anything other than talk to people and perform surgery. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 17:24 | comment | added | Einer | @LightnessRacesinOrbit It is annoying. But maybe this might interest you | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 14:06 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Same for Voyager's EMH. This really annoyed me. It would be so much more efficient and elegant for the EMH to just interface internally rather than having his corporeal form interact clumsily with 2D console buttons. | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 13:38 | answer | added | Matthew Walton | timeline score: 25 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 12:08 | vote | accept | BenjaminJB | ||
| Aug 11, 2014 at 11:29 | history | edited | Einer |
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| Aug 11, 2014 at 10:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/498778221962592256 | ||
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:54 | answer | added | Einer | timeline score: 67 | |
| Aug 11, 2014 at 8:43 | history | asked | BenjaminJB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |