• Re: AI

    From Prowler@VERT/PROWLER to Nightfox on Thu Jun 5 08:24:39 2025
    Re: Re: AI
    By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Thu May 29 2025 11:21 am

    I remember an episode of The Next Generation where they visited a planet where the people were using a computer to guide their actions. The computer had something that wasn't working anymore, and since the computer had been created generations before, the people currently living there didn't know how to repair it, as apparently that knowledge had been lost since the later generations didn't bother to study it well enough.


    That was such a great series. Your mention of this really got my attention and I'm wanting to watch it. After some searching I'm wondering if it was Contagion or When the Bough Breaks. For some reason I just don't remember that specific episode, but the ol memory ain't what it used to be.

    Prowler

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Prowler on Thu Jun 5 15:17:25 2025
    Re: Re: AI
    By: Prowler to Nightfox on Thu Jun 05 2025 08:24 am

    I remember an episode of The Next Generation where they visited a planet
    where the people were using a computer to guide their actions. The
    computer had something that wasn't working anymore, and since the computer
    had been created generations before, the people currently living there
    didn't know how to repair it, as apparently that knowledge had been lost
    since the later generations didn't bother to study it well enough.

    That was such a great series. Your mention of this really got my attention and I'm wanting to watch it. After some searching I'm wondering if it was Contagion or When the Bough Breaks. For some reason I just don't remember that specific episode, but the ol memory ain't what it used to be.

    I don't remember all the episode names, but it's possible it could be one of those episodes.

    Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I have the series on blu-ray, and I think they really did a good job remastering it for HD. And for the time the HD version was released, I think that would have been good timing for a 4K release as well, but I understand the budget only allowed for so much.

    I've heard the blu-rays didn't sell very well though, unfortunately, so they don't have plans to remaster Deep Space 9 or Voyager for HD, especially as those would probably take more effort to do. I'd think they could at least do it for streaming though, and if they do, hopefully it wouldn't be too much more expensive for them to release blu-rays too. But one can only hope.. I still like to buy physical media, as I don't like to rely on streaming services, even to hold onto anything I buy a streaming version of. But that's a different discussion..

    Nightfox

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