A race of androids?

[SAMEET]

A while back, it was not considered feasible. But now it is confirmed that CS is considering putting in Hologram characters. Hologram Away Team and Security members would be even more indestructible than Androids, since androids at least are physical and can be blown up.

So perhaps Starfleet took apart B-4 and finally learned how to produce Androids in the 30 years since
Nemesis.

I would love to play an Android. Data, Robocop, the Terminator, and Johhny 5 are among my favorite characters.

[TruthSeer]

I don't know about playable races but I wouldn't mind meeting and/or going up against a android race.

[SovWell]

Yes the advance tech allows you to have Hologram crew based off your ships computer data banks, and may have limited travel and AI too. However, your entire ship can not run on them... only a skeleton crew.

[Trekkie]

I definitely think that androids should be in the game in one form or another, but I think that a "race of androids" might be a bit too much.

[SovWell]

There is always the Borg for your pleasure.

[SAMEET]

There is always the Borg for your pleasure.

Borg are not Androids. There are more like a biological/machine combined entity. Androids are usually 100% robot, with a advanced hardware system to mimick a human nervous system.

Data had a human-like brain, with infinite storage and capacity. But he was all machine.

Borg are assimilated humanoids with machine parts that grow into them.

[gavinmasters]

Your just after your pleasure bots again ARNT YOU! ;)

[Boone]

There was an android race in an alternate timeline, the Sons of Soong. They were created by Data after he had lost so many friends and wanted companions who could last as long as him. With Data's death in Nemesis it is unlikely they would rise.

[Kinjiru]

Borg are not Androids. There are more like a biological/machine combined entity. Androids are usually 100% robot, with a advanced hardware system to mimick a human nervous system.


You might say... Cyborgs, even. :D

[AaronH]

Borg are not Androids. There are more like a biological/machine combined entity. Androids are usually 100% robot, with a advanced hardware system to mimick a human nervous system.


Anydroids are simply artificial humans, be it built from robotics or organics. Data just happened to be an example of a robotic android.

[STO_NPG]

As NPCs, yes. Player race? No thanks.

[1033]

I remember reading in something about a great solution to the problem of the positronic brain being hard to make, use a holographic brain in a robotic body. With that method, androids could be very common by 2409. I don't see why at least starfleet wouldn't want android/holographic crew members. They have many obvious benefits like resistance to mind control, long working hours, and can function in hazardous environments.

[marscentral]

It does seem odd that Starfleet lacks androids, given their level of tech and the number they run into. In ST:O, I'd like to see androids represented (more so than holograms), so long as balance is maintained to prevent them being to uber.

[Boone]

It does seem odd that Starfleet lacks androids, given their level of tech and the number they run into. In ST:O, I'd like to see androids represented (more so than holograms), so long as balance is maintained to prevent them being to uber.

Fear, probably especially after the Borg.

[Duras]

If I recall, on an episode of Voyager, the Doctor yerned for indipendance prompting him to write a book about it or request it. (If I remember right.)
At the end of the episode, we saw loads of EMHs mining in a cave as the idea spread to all the other holographic doctor lookalikes.

I'd imagine that other races without the ethics in the field of technilogical advancement would use holographic persons with mobil emmitters to produce them for dangerous work and the front line to preserve the life of organics.

[Duras]

Also Prototype, an andriod was repaired by Torres...
If they over came their lack of ability to produce a power matrix, how ar would they have advanced.!

Andriods would be an integral part of the variaty of life in the future of our development, so in the Star Trek universe, I see it as a must.

[joseramon]

Androids can be part of the star trek universe but...i dont see them as a race, and in no way as a Player Character.

[Duras]

Androids can be part of the star trek universe but...i dont see them as a race, and in no way as a Player Character.

Yes, I agree, not as a single race.
But winning merit to acquire an andriod as part of your crew would allow higher stratigic status ect...
You'd have an upperhand in some situations perhaps, an andriod could make reapairs faster or use the systems more efficiently as an ordinary NCP at different grades.

Data wasn't unique... but was true to the principles of Star Fleet, I'd hire Lor. :eek:

[Starisa]

I don't really know what to say. I think that if players got to have an android as they're character, it would be giving them to much power. I mean, let's face it, your character would have to be super hard to kill if you want to go along with an android's abilities. Personnally i think being an android would make everything seem to easy. Also if they did that, they'd have to factor in the feelings that the crew would have towards your character since you'd technically would be better than them physically and mentally. For example, when Data was given control of that one ship when the federation was looking for cloaked Romulan ships that we're crossing into to Klingon space (I can't remember the episode) and one of the crew members was uncomfortable of having an android as a captian. Either way,this is Cryptic's decision, and I'm just here to state my opinion and thro in some thoughts just like a bunch of other people.

[lavinjo]

I heard something about just 2 holograms as crew per ship but i'm not sure... about androids nothing...

[bobh]

I definitely think that androids should be in the game in one form or another, but I think that a "race of androids" might be a bit too much.

Agree with Trekkie.

Besides, wouldn't B-4 be covered under J.A.G. Louvois' ruling that Data-types had the right of choice?

[EnsignSkylarkThibedeau]

There was reluctance to build new androids like Data after the Federation Supreme Court declared Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics to be Unconstitutional.

The Robotic Worlds were NPC villains in the Starshield play by post RPG about 10 years ago.

[KO_Gilligan]

I'd love to have a big over-enthusiastic robot dog from Half Life 2

[Duras]

or that depressing andriod from Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy... :(