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TNG episode #15: 11001001

 
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:36 pm    Post subject: TNG episode #15: 11001001 Reply with quote

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11001001 episode #15, first season / Air Date: 2/1/88 written by Maurice Hurley, Robert Lewin; Directed by Paul Lynch



Touted by many fans as the best holodeck story, this isn't so much about some adventure inside the holodeck as it is about a particular character created there, under special circumstances i.e. a special program.

Reps from a race known as the Bynars are supposed to upgrade the computer on the Enterprise at Starbase 74. These Bynars are another interesting aspect of the episode; they're like living representations of the binary language of computers. They live and work in pairs and communicate mostly in a computer language, having a direct connection to their main computer via 'buffer' units they wear.



Come to think of it, they're like an early, benign version of the Borg (introduced in the 2nd season)



The Bynars enhance the computer, including the capability of the holodeck, and Riker finds himself enthralled by the latest holo-character, a lady named Minuet (Carolyn McCormick), in the setting of a Parisian bar. Picard also joins them (Picard seems to really want to 'hang' with Riker in this episode).

Meanwhile, the magnetic containment field for the anti-matter is suddenly deteriorating; unknown to Picard & Riker, Data orders everyone to abandon ship. The ship is then sent out of the starbase since it's believed it is about to explode.



Of course, that doesn't happen. Besides the beguiling Minuet (not so much to me, but to Riker),

I noted a more grim resolve from Picard than what I was used to this first season. At one point, he decides to initiate a self-destruct sequence (recalling the couple of times Kirk did this), surprising Riker and the audience.

But, in all, this was a good example of how this new Trek show differed from the original in style and tone — there is no actual sharply-defined threat or conflict that the characters need to face and overcome by the end; this was all merely an alien way of asking for help.

BoG's Score: 7 out of 10

TNG Trivia: Gene Dynarski, who plays a starbase commander here, guest-starred on 2 TOS episodes: Mudd's Women and The Mark of Gideon. His character here, commander Quinteros, had been in charge of the team that assembled Enterprise-D.






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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's an intriguing idea I came up with while posting in the thread for Elemenary, My Dear Data. It belongs here, too.

Remember the episode in which Ryker fell in love with a holodeck woman who seemed to have a special quality which suggested sentience? Her name was Minuet, and Memory Alpha describes her as "highly astute and self-aware".



Minuet was created by the ship's computer after the Bynars secretly uploaded a gigantic quantity of data to the computer to protect it from an EMP burst generated by a nova near the Bynar's home world.

The episode's title is 11001001, and it aired in season one. The Moriarty episode aired in season 2. So, perhaps the computer was already sentient long before it was ordered by Georgi to create "a foe that could defeat Data."

However, 11001001 ends with the Bynars removing the gigantic quantity of data they had uploaded, and when they did that, the computer could no longer create the sentient version of Minuet.

Does that mean Minuet's sentience was dependent in some way on the data which the Bynar's added to the computer?

Well, maybe.

Minuet was specifically programmed by the Bynars to distract Ryker during their covert computer operation. So, perhaps she was just a product of the Bynar's advanced computer skills, and the Bynar's data wasn't needed to make her sentient.

If that's true, she ceased to exist only because the Bynars removed the complex program they designed to create her.

The big difference between Minuet and Moriarty, of course, is that the computer went a step further and created its own character who was self-aware.

Like you said, it's fun to ponder! Cool

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The actors portraying the Bynars were all women dancers.

Their voices were mechanically lowered.

Originally, covert dialogue they engaged in was to have subtitles.

The planet Tarsas III, its moon, and starbase were stock footage from the Star Trek III movie "The Search For Spock."

Carolyn McCormick would later appear in the 1998 sci~fi TV-movie/pilot "The Osiris Chronicles," aka "The Warlord: Battle For The Galaxy." Created by Caleb Carr, directed by Joe Dante.

Carolyn would have been a regular cast member had the pilot been picked up as a series.

A shame because it was an interesting concept with great potential.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think she reappeared in the fourth season of TNG as Minuet again and that was what clued Riker in!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nitpicker's Guide.

The crew of the Enterprise passes up another perfectly good time for saucer separation. Why not send the battle section off to explode by itself? It should be much easier to evacuate, since all the families live in the saucer. Is there some regulation against separating while in space dock?

The whole business of the Bynars and their need to back up the data in their main computer by storing it in the Enterprise's main computer seems a bit shortsighted.

Supposedly this culture completely depends on their main computer, yet they have no mechanism to back up the information. Doesn't seem very practical, does it?

Data and La Forge hurry off the bridge and head to the transporter room because they have only forty-one seconds left.

Question: Why don't they just do a site-to-site transport?

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Note: Always found the Bynars kind of creepy. They reminded me of the Borg.

What if their master computer went all Colossus on 'em and started commanding them against their collective will to obey it? Such a planet could prove dangerous for the Federation of Planets.

Hey, I think we might just have a sequel story here!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Star Trek: Picard seaon 1 is about the danger of artificial lifeforms becoming so superior to humans that the humans fear they we'll be wiped by the androids.

Data, of course, died in Star Trek: Insurrection, but androids who are superior to Data have been built and become widely used throughout the galaxy.

The story does a good job of convince us that the threat is real!

I highly recommend this series.

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