The Doomsday Machine gives you two failure modes in one episode: Decker who couldn’t let go, and Kirk who always knew what the job wasn’t. Both live inside every builder.
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DS9 ‘…Nor the Battle to the Strong’ is the mirror image of The First Duty. Same question — what do you do when you discover you are not who you thought you were? — but Jake Sisko makes the opposite choice from Wesley Crusher. He tells the truth. The uncomfortable question is why that’s so much harder.
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Challenge #2: build a Markov chain captain’s log generator. Scrape Star Trek transcripts, extract all the captain’s logs, feed them into a statistical text generator, and see what nonsense comes out.
It worked. Not in a “wow, AI is amazing” way. In a “holy shit, you can generate coherent-ish sentences just by counting which words follow which other words” way.
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