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I know this is how people in the 80s and 90 imagined the future and a lot of concepts were probably too far fetched for them.

BUT... why arent they using drones to explore planets? why are there not more drone-spaceships? why does enterprise need a crew to begin with? Why is there so little automation? Why so few uses of AI in general?

I am saying this as a star trek the next generation person. I'd also expect them to have full video and sensory streams of any surface mission teams.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

1 argument against the use of drones:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See also: any time an AI has been given command of a vessel (except Data, and even then he caused problems a couple times).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"That was the stun setting. This is not. I can reduce this pumping station to a pile of debris."

—Data, the most sophisticated android in the federation, conducting diplomacy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before that, M5 was one of the worst disasters in Starfleet history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And although it was probably at least partially covered up control wasn't exactly great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Please explain, this is a starfleet drone attacking a starfleet ship? Was the drone highjacked or just went rogue on it's own?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Option B

Rogue AI hidden in code.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thats drone ships going bad from lower decks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And more importantly, the drone MISSED data that revealed the planet was inhabited!

Not Star Trek, but the Three Laws of Robotics is the textbook on why AI and any strict programmatic interpretation of Rules is a flawed goal.