Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

In article <fms6hu$s6k$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Bill Plenge" <B_Plenge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
wrote:

> Steven L. wrote:
> > Anybody wrote:
> >> In article <wY8kj.688$lU5.602@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> "GeneK" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> >>>> In Star Wars that would definitely be true, but in Star Trek any
> >>>> form of robot or droid seems to be extremely rare in any of the
> >>>> various cultures (other than Data and his sibling of course).
> >>> I'm not talking about droids with personalities, just
> >>> the same robotic welders on automated, articulated
> >>> arm that you see today in every automobile factory
> >>> in the industrialized world because they weld more
> >>> consistently than humans.  The welder in the trailer
> >>> would more realistically be sitting at a control panel
> >>> loading CNC programs and monitoring the results.
> >>
> >> I know what you meant and it's true in our world, but even those
> >> types of robots have rarely (if ever) been seen or mentioned in Star
> >> Trek. Even when you get to the time of Deep Space Nine they still
> >> have what appears to be living beings doing the external repair work
> >> in the opening sequence.
> >
> > Yep, robotics is one area where Star Trek vastly underestimated the
> > future possibilities.
> >
> > Japan has made enormous strides in that area lately:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZS16IxC8k
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srwk-i5aXRQ&feature=related
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95gtlyS-2Y
> >
> > In TNG, we had Data of course.  But he was supposed to be a rarity; a
> > state-of-the-art advance.  Most likely less advanced robots will be
> > commonplace long before the 24th century.
> 
> Ealy Voyager episodes made reference (and showed) holographic miners
based 
> on the same tech as the EMH and with the same appearance.  Though it
never 
> seemed to me that turning a mine shaft into a holodeck so your
holominers 
> could work there would prove to be cost/energy efficient. 

Well, since holodecks use some different type of power than anything 
else in the universe uses, that's available in limitless supply enen 
when you're out of everything else . . .

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