The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story): Difference between revisions

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*Why doesn't the service robots' programming prevent them from using the crew for parts?  
*Why doesn't the service robots' programming prevent them from using the crew for parts?  
  ''If you were a mechanical worker on board the SS. Madame de Pompadour, would you program the robots '''not''' to use the crew as spare parts if they hi-jacked the ship, maxed out the warp engines, created time windows to check if the Uncrowned Queen of France was 'compatible' for their systems and turn the spacecraft into a makeshift 'chopshop'? One: would you have thought of that? Two: Is that likely to have been taken into account due to it happening before? No.''
  ''If you were a mechanical worker on board the SS. Madame de Pompadour,  
would you program the robots '''not''' to use the crew as spare parts if they hi-jacked the ship, maxed out the warp engines, created time windows to check if the Uncrowned Queen of France was 'compatible' for their systems and turn the  
spacecraft into a makeshift 'chopshop'? One: would you have thought of that?  
Two: Is that likely to have been taken into account due to it happening before? No.''


*There are several scenes where the robots put their dissection tools next to a human's body, yet we never see them even attempt to use them.  
*There are several scenes where the robots put their dissection tools next to a human's body, yet we never see them even attempt to use them.  
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