TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world teft @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Who is your favorite cybernetic organism in Trek and why is it Samanthan Rutherford?

Characters clockwise from top left

Samanthan Rutherford

Unnamed Cerritos Operations Officer

Airiam

Seven of Nine

Jean Luc Picard

Data

One One

Hugh

Kayla Detmer

Geordi LaForge

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- Honestly, bonus points to Rutherford just for being voiced by Eugene Cordero. Pillboi!!!
  
  Lower Decks was the first time I'd encountered Cordero. Then I watched Loki and immediately recognized his voice. Hope to see/hear more of him; he's great.
Wtf is that character list order lol. Also, no Icheb love?
- Wtf is that character list order lol
  
  This character list order sponsored by Q.
- They did him dirty on Picard.
  
  I will never forgive them for killing Icheb
Rutherford. No one else comes close to solving non-engineering problems like him.

Edit: he is not the best at it. He literally does it like nobody else. All others fall into two camps: diplomat or a troubleshooter, like they approach problems with the mindset that they have to be repaired for peak performance. There is a dryness to their approach that feels comfortable to logical folks.

Rutherford demands you dress like Twain and yell it out in a steamboat. No one does it like him.
Why does Airiam get a cybernetic body but Pike is stuck in a beep beep chair?
- They learned to not put people into cybernetic bodies after the Airiam incident at Control HQ so they were like "sorry for ya, Chris"
  
  Harsh.
  
  At least he got to Talos IV.
  
  I wonder who else is stuck in a beep beep chair who didn't get the chance to live the rest of their life in a fantasy world created by superintelligent, loving aliens with super mental powers?
Wait why is Cpt. Picard in the list? Fake heart?
- Oui.
  
  Also, fake other parts since Picard S1.
Kayla all day. ...but mostly not for character reasons.
It's obviously me!
Data isn't cybernetic.
- First 2 lines of the cybernetics article on Memory Alpha.
  
  Cybernetics was the study of hugely complex artificial intelligence systems, usually running on a positronic matrix and often housed inside robotic machine technology. A practical implementation of this was an android.
  
  Okay, so under the in-universe definition he qualifies.
- He just came from the other side. He wasn't always cybernetic, but once that Borg queen grafted living flesh on his mechanical body he became a cyborg, as shown in the photo.
  
  So he was cybernetic for a few hours or so, then was reverted. I don't think that counts.
- Yeah he's Positronic

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