yes indeed. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That outsmarting the computer theme seems to appear every season on the Original Star Trek and Next Generation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How about, Kirk saving the day by outsmarting a super computer, causing it to > self-destruct in self-loathing and unreconcilable programming loops? He did > that with M5 ("How will you atone for the sin of murder"..."This computer > must die..."), Nomad ("Nomad, you've made three errors, you are flawed. > Execute your prime directive". "Boom!") and Landru ("You are not protecting > the Body!".... "Landru! Help me! Boom!") > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> During our discussion about over the top with bad plot block busters, we >> started talking about over the worse saves in speculative fiction >> movies. So far two were raised. They are: >> >> 1. "Data putting the freakin' Borg *to sleep* to save the day in Star >> Trek Next Generation >> >> 2. How Jeff Goldblum was able to with "his Mac laptop and a few hours of >> virus coding couldn't topple the computer system of a technologically >> superior society of interstellar conquerors on the first try in >> Independence Day" >> >> Got any others.... >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]