DS9 s3e26 “The Adversary”

  • Sculptus Poe
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    13 hours ago

    Hmm. Why organize with those fiberoptic wires at all when all programming is done by organizing isolinear chips in a grid?

    (Also, as easily as those chips pop out, every time the inertial dampeners fail just enough for the crew to feel hull damage but not enough to turn them to paste, they would all fall out and require Data to reorganize them.)

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      10 hours ago

      I’m convinced the chips do nothing, and the entire thing was dreamed up by the daystrom institute as a way to keep hyperactive engineers busy without fucking anything up, while the computer actually just solves everything.

      Data is the only character we see with a dedicated computer in his quarters, and I bet that’s for a very good reason.