Who is your favorite cybernetic organism in Trek and why is it Samanthan Rutherford?
Who is your favorite cybernetic organism in Trek and why is it Samanthan Rutherford?
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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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Data isn't cybernetic.
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.
Okay, so under the in-universe definition he qualifies.
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.
So he was cybernetic for a few hours or so, then was reverted. I don't think that counts.
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.
This guy gets me. But also the formal definition on Memory Alpha includes Data as he normally is.
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.
By that logic, the "normal" state for any cyborg is not being a cyborg.
Yeah he's Positronic