Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

Anybody 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.
>
> On today's re-run of Voyager here in New Zealand, Lt Torres was taken
> captive by a "race" of androids, one of which asks her about driods
> and robots where she comes from. As well as talking about Data and his
> being treated as an equal, she says that there are other non-sentient
> robots of various sizes and shapes used in the Alpha Quadrant for many
> simple jobs.

As was seen in TNG as well.
Only they evolved into sentient beings.

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