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Who is your favorite cybernetic organism in Trek and why is it Samanthan Rutherford? (lemmy.world)

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Data isn't cybernetic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Okay, so under the in-universe definition he qualifies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So he was cybernetic for a few hours or so, then was reverted. I don't think that counts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

On that image, he's cybernetic.

Well, at least if you don't have a "you must be at least this much human to be a cyborg" rule.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This guy gets me. But also the formal definition on Memory Alpha includes Data as he normally is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

True, but it's not indicative of his normal state. I don't have that rule, otherwise most of the people in the pictures wouldn't count.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

By that logic, the "normal" state for any cyborg is not being a cyborg.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah he's Positronic