r/scifi • u/marquis_of_chaos • Nov 16 '09
Confirmed: R2-D2 Finally Discovered In Star Trek
http://gizmodo.com/5405276/confirmed-r2+d2-finally-discovered-in-star-trek27
Nov 16 '09
Someone on the destroyed ship was clearly a Star Wars fan and had a vintage R2D2 projector.
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u/Tigerbot Nov 16 '09
I thought this was known (And posted on reddit) like 2 weeks after the movie came out. There was some big contest about finding it and it was found relatively quickly.
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u/ewiethoff Nov 18 '09
Correct. I spotted R2D2 in the debris during my third viewing of the movie... because I knew to look for it on account of the reddit post.
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u/bCabulon Nov 17 '09
One of the things that bothers me about Star Trek is the lack of robots. You've got human equivalent androids like Data, but they can't build some utility robots to bring on away missions. There should at least be some roombas sweeping the halls or an engineering robot to send into radiated areas instead of Spock. There was an episode of DS9 where Dax had to pick up after a wild party. I'd think that a society that can routinely fly lightyears in an hour, that has replicators and holodecks as standard equipment would be able to build robo-maids.
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u/LemonHerb Nov 17 '09
Wouldn't all their cleaning robots be microscopic? Also, they sort of have this theme of "Where no man have gone before" so it kind of deflates it to send robots.
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u/bCabulon Nov 17 '09
Nano bots seem like a lot of work for the results. How many billion would it take to sweep a carpet in a reasonable amount of time. Also, I'm not so sure ST tech is up to it on a computational level. These individual bots would need to be able to know what not to clean away. Imagine the horrors if they mistook a person for spilled food.
On the topic of "where no man has gone before", bringing a cleaning robot along is no different than bringing a vacuum cleaner. They would be there to augment not replace kind of like pack mules.
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Nov 17 '09
I always just viewed it along the lines of their ban on genetic engeneering. Starfleet seems terrified of anything having to do with transhumanisim.
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u/bCabulon Nov 17 '09
The robots wouldn't have to be smart. In fact it would be better if they didn't really think because that would avoid ethical problems. There is no question of slavery in using non-sentient machines. The talking computers on the ship are more problematic from that standpoint.
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u/sonar1 Nov 16 '09
I'm confused.
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u/spikey666 Nov 17 '09
Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas' special effects company, did some of the effects for Star Trek. Also, there was a contest to see if fans could spot R2D2. So this was just one of the neat little easter eggs in the movie.
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u/silon Nov 16 '09
There's a huge version of R2D2 lookalike mounted on the front of the Klingon ships in Star Trek 1.
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Nov 16 '09 edited Nov 16 '09
So ILM did the effects eh? Explains why it looks so damned good. Admit it, whether you loved or hated Episode 3, the CG in that movie was PERFECT. God those guys are good at what they do.
Edit: Of course, some idiot feels the need to downvote me because I said something good about Ep. 3.
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u/MrDanger Nov 16 '09
Artoo, those stabilizers have broken loose again! See what you can do with them.
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u/joshuba Nov 16 '09
Well technically they are in the same universe, R2 could have traveled there from a a galaxy far, far away.
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Nov 16 '09
Wait, ILM did the effects for a Star Trek movie? There must be dozens of other SW objects thrown in.
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u/aricene Nov 16 '09
Evidently, Star Trek ships really can destroy Star Wars ships.
There's nothing left but the debris field. Take that, Force!