Picard's moral crucible — whether to preserve human moral agency (and accept personal responsibility) or to cede life‑and‑death control to an algorithmic solution; human judgment vs. machine logic.
Picard's moral crucible — whether to preserve human moral agency (and accept personal responsibility) or to cede life‑and‑death control to an algorithmic solution; human judgment vs. machine logic.
Events in This Arc
Trapped and desperate, Geordi and the holodeck simulation of Dr. Leah Brahms race to find any mechanical workaround for the Promellian energy trap. The scene pivots from technical banter and …
In the Captain's ready room Picard and Riker quietly parse Geordi's radical proposal to cede control of the Enterprise to the computer to buy time. Picard's idle, nostalgic monologue about …
As lethal radiation ticks down, Geordi proposes a radical 'turn everything off' gambit: one microsecond impulse, then manual thruster bursts with only minimal life support. Picard overruns automated control, relieves …