One of these is for Lieutenant and one is for Lieutenant Junior Grade. And they are not as much fun as meeting one of my requirements for the course, which is watching as many StarTrek episodes as I can.
June 30, 2019
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One of these is for Lieutenant and one is for Lieutenant Junior Grade. And they are not as much fun as meeting one of my requirements for the course, which is watching as many StarTrek episodes as I can.
Starlog: Data Entry Four.Two
I really have no idea
where AI is going, since the function seems to change over time. I
would like to see it used for the more simple, useful things, rather
than the invasive functions that can occur when the program is not
supervised, as mentioned by Mark Teerlink at around 4:40 in the video
for Tech Showcase: Artificial Intelligence. One thing that I like
about AI, is that when I do Google searches for a particular subject,
the algorithm, which I guess is really what AI is, is sometimes very
good at guessing what it is I'm looking for, based on my past
searches. An example would be knowing what rock group I'm looking
for, or that I'm looking for a group of musicians, rather than a city
in the U.S.
June 21, 2019
Starlog: Data Entry Four.One - Beam Me Up, or Down
My must-have would be
the ability to be transported from one location to another. On a
personal level, it would mean that I didn't have to travel many miles
to visit places and people I would like to see. As for the Star Trek
universe, it really couldn't exist without this technology, in my
opinion. Most of the episodes are based on the ability to be
instantly transported to another location. If instant 'beaming'
wasn't part of the story lines, then the show would not exist as it
does, so it's not a matter of being better or worse; it's a matter of
telling an entirely different story.
Since I have access to
every episode (or most episodes) of Star Trek, I looked at two just
to see how this technology was used. In the original pilot episode,
The Cage, a crew of six, including Spock, get beamed down to the
planet which is the focus of the story, at around 10 minutes. In the
latest episode that I watched, Star Trek Discovery, episode 1, the
Captain and Number One (both females, by the way), get beamed from
the planet that they seem to be isolated on, to the ship at around 5
minutes. It's fascinating how 'beaming', or transporting, has been
such an enduring technology over the many iterations of Star Trek.
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