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Non-sapience of the main computer might be a UX feature, since being under the constant observation of a sapient AI could be... disquieting. It could also be a
by noblethrasher 13y ago
Non-sapience of the main computer might be a UX feature, since being under the constant observation of a sapient AI could be... disquieting.
It could also be a security feature whereby they keep a firewall between the semi-sapient AIs on the holodeck and the non-sapient AI that runs the ship. That would explain why the crew was emphatically not cool with Geordi's proposal to turn over the ship's navigation to the computer in the episode "Booby Trap".
- cpeterso 13y agoPerhaps the Federation's computer designers are hesitant to make starship computers too autonomous after the incident with Dr. Richard Daystrom's M-5 computer in the TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer
- stan_rogers 13y agoIndeed, in the episode Emergence[1], the ship decided it had better things to do with its time end energy than attend to the desires of its little organic parasites. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_...