Humans look a lot like machines to me though. So it seems we are looking at the old machine competing against the new. And maybe the new machine is a hybrid o

Humans look a lot like machines to me though. So it seems we are looking at the old machine competing against the new. And maybe the new machine is a hybrid of the old machine with some new feature built in. I don't think we'd call it human though, cyborg maybe. One of the things I didn't like about Star Trek was that they have this super powerful computer and yet Picard has to ask Wesley to punch in the coordinates on the console and engage the warp coils. What kind of theater is this? Sure a floating monolithic slab of computation in space has less cinema appeal than a crew of humans, but a hardened machine seems more plausible for space travel. Humans can't sustain much more than 1g acceleration and don't live too long.