The planet was all a giant temperate zone and fruit provided for the needs of the locals, who faced no predators, save the aggressive pod plants, which fired deadly poisonous thorns at anyone who got too close. Kirk and the Enterprise encountered a society controlled by a computer, idyllic but stagnant.
Observers on Gamma Trianguli VI, observing a Stone Age tech society, have not reported in for weeks and your ship is the closest to investigate. If the AI attacks them (spoiler alert: of course it will), it could start a major war.Ĭlick to expand.I'm now imagining cadets undergoing a holodeck test with this scenario, to reinforce why it's a bad idea. And there’s nobody left alive on the AIs ship to talk the computer down.Ĭomplication: there’s a small Romulan fleet nearby. Except the PCs are on the wrong ship, they’re fighting an opponent smarter, quicker reacting and far more ruthless than they are, and which no longer has to consider crew safety as it fights.
STAR TREK ORION PIRATES KEEPS CRASHING TV
At which point, the AI “simulates” the damage by shutting down life support and killing the skeleton crew that was aboard (and the engineers aboard to mind the AI)įrom here it plays out like the TV episode. In the initial encounter, the PCs ship scores a direct simulated hit on the bridge of the AI controlled ship. The PCs are crewing one of three starships assigned to engage the experImental AI in simulated battle. The initial trials are successful, and now it’s time for the Deep Space Tactical Confrontation trials. Obviously there are all sorts of safeguards to prevent a repeat of that regrettable M5 incident aboard Kirk’s Enterprise.
The Ultimate Computer, mk 2 In an appalling (but somehow not surprising failure to learn from history, an Admiral at Starfleet Command has allowed himself to be convinced that the time is ripe for another attempt at putting a starship entirely under the control of an advanced AI computer system.
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