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Joy

Joy Class Androids

Joy Class Androids

 

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Name: Joy Twelve

Species: Mudd Android

Gender: Neuter (Appearance is that of an idealized human female)

Age: 5 (Apparent age, low 20s.)

Height: 1.75 Meters

Weight: 93 Kg

Hair Color: Dark brown

Eye Color: Brown

Skin Color: Fair Caucasian

Place of Birth: USS Hawking (See Note)

Telepathic Status: Resistant (Few telepaths can read positronic minds.)

 

'MEDICAL' INFORMATION

 

Environmental Requirements: Survival capable in a broad range of environments. Pressure - zero to 30 atmospheres. Gravity - operational 0 to 15 G, survivable to 24 G. Toxins - essentially immune. Disease - essentially immune. Radiation - equivalent to class 1 hardened. Self repair from radiation damage is complete from any but a lethal dosage. Electro Magnetic Pulse - Equivalent of class 2 hardened, but vulnerable. Power requirement Class II phaser pack, two carried, one replaced every 5 days. H2O .2 liters capacity, but used primarily for cosmetic emulation of human fluid discharge.

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE

 

Interpersonal Relation Profile: (linear scale to 10, 10=highest) Introversion: 2.5, Relies on Intuition: 1, Trusts rules over context: 8, Wants problems solved and closed: 9, Shows emotions: 9, Stability of mental core identity: 7, Creativity: 3, Sensitive to feelings of others: 10, Trusts democratic processes: 7

 

Probable Strengths: Eidetic memory. Capable of following procedures well. Values of Starfleet and the Federation programmed into the emotion chip. Thorough. Persistent. Self sacrificing. Obedient. Loyal.

 

Probable Weaknesses: Too self sacrificing. Protects lives of others at priority 2, protects her own life at priority 6. Programming forces rigid adherence to six rules, primarily the Prime Directive, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, and a requirement to obey the law. Cannot advocate or participate in illegal / lethal actions no matter what the practical benefit might be.

 

Interpersonal Relations: Was originally designed as a personal companion android. Will initiate conversation and attempt to give pleasure to others should no conflict with her Asimov processor programming exist. Has made many close friends in academy, on various ships, and in the artificial intelligence community.

 

Interests: General spaceship operation, security, computer security, artificial intelligence, law, civil rights, martial arts, dance, politics.

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

The initial Joy class units were constructed on Mudd. Units Four and Seven operated extensively in the Charador nebula through their first century. Neither Mudd or the Charador have traditional university education systems, but emphasize practical experience. Joy Seven was over a century old upon entering Starfleet Academy, where her nonconventional background put her far ahead of other cadets in applied knowledge of space operations, but far behind in terms of interpersonal relationships.

 

When Mudd joined the Federation, and other Joy class units became available to Starfleet, Joy Six was assigned to the Starfleet Academy Artificial Intelligence department, nominally as an instructor. Six has received doctorates in Artificial Intelligence theory, and in Law. Six has focused studies on the Guarantees, the rights of artificial sentients, the nature of free will, the legal implications of sentient beings lacking free will, the difficulties of punishing an entire hive mind in response to the actions of an individual member of the hive mind, and applying the Prime Directive in complex situations. Six is best known in academic circles for "Joy's Law." An artificial sentient being created to perform a specific function is owed by his or her creator a viable opportunity to fulfill their designed function. Six also advocates parental responsibility for creators of artificial sentients, and legal responsibility if one creates sentients or near sentients, especially those lacking free will. Six, and several other Joys, have been active in advocating public holodecks, where holo-sentients can interact with organics as equals. The Joys support the efforts of Moriarty and other holo-sentients to own and maintain holo space and cyber space.

 

While Six has published the most of the Joy's formal academic papers, Five, Ten and Eleven, as part of their Starfleet assignments, have published numerous science papers resulting from their experiences in Starfleet. Seven has also been active in the public and political press, serving as Mudd's ambassador to San Francisco, recently serving two terms as Vice Chair of the Federation Council.

 

SERVICE RECORD

 

The Joy Class androids are considered to be a hive mind. When two units of the class have high speed communications access to one another, they exchange information and memories. Thus, each android eventually shares the knowledge and skills of all androids in the class. Due to memory storage limitations, information and skills seldom accessed, seldom used to make decisions, are purged as part of the information sharing process.

 

Thus, it is meaningless to speak of the experience of a single Joy Class android. Several have served with Starfleet, on USS Hawking, USS Aurora, USS Republic, USS Fek'Lhr, USS Leviathan, USS Valkerie, USS Defiant, USS Gabriel, USS Maelstrom, USS Deliverance, USS Einstein, USS Lovisa and elsewhere. Most assignments were in Operations and Science roles. However, not all Joy Class androids are Starfleet officers. Two serve in New York City, Earth, as a Broadway Dancer and as a saleswoman and tour guide at Tiffany's. Two are currently serving in San Francisco, Earth, with the artificial intelligence department at Starfleet Academy, and heading the Mudd Embassy on the Presidio. Several serve with the State Department of Mudd, including their Ambassador to Kro'nos. The resultant skill mix is eclectic, resulting from eleven active androids sharing decades of experience each.

 

 

Note: Androids are usually manufactured or replicated, not "born." Joy Twelve was created through an unknown process. The USS Hawking encountered an energy being who forced each crew member to confront their greatest fear. Joy Eleven's greatest fear was (and remains) Joy Four, a rogue member of the Joy class still programmed with the Ferrengi Laws of Robotics. An encounter between a Federation programmed Joy and a rogue Joy with a faulty or tampered Asimov instruction set results in conflict, with the winner reprogramming the looser, resulting in severe emotion chip overflow and a period of instability. Twelve was defeated by Eleven, reprogrammed, and is currently being assigned to USS Republic. Despite the unusual genesis, there is no detectable difference between Twelve and the rest of the class.

Edited by Joy

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No mention of Data u could have done alot of things with the Data angle

 

Oh and by the way it's Kronos the phonetic spelling is Qo'on'oS just a little F.Y.I. for ya

 

and once again u can kill me in 5 seconds

 

5 seconds later.

I CAN SEE THE LIGHT! :D

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No mention of Data u could have done alot of things with the Data angle

Joy is based on the TOS "I Mudd" episode's androids, rather than TNG's Soongs. It seems likely Joy would have met Data at some point, but the canon TNG Soong stories make absolutely no mention of the planet Mudd and its technology. I decided not to get very creative in mingling the two.

 

Kirk and Spock did tamper some with the Mudd androids, notably creating the Stella Class. Joy suspects Dr. Soong might have had access to Spock's notes on the Mudd visit, and thus benefited a little from The Maker's technology in making his breakthroughs. Joy's processor is positronic. She has both an 'Asimov Processor' and an 'Emotion Chip,' though the two are so integrated that the Joys, unlike the Soongs, cannot be operated without both in place. I acknowledge that the Joy Class is unique among the Mudd Androids in having emotion chips. The bulk of "I Mudd" androids don't, which gave Dr. McCoy entirely unnecessary excuses to tease Spock.

 

But basically Joy has never run in a sim with a player running a Soong, so no joint logs have been written. I admire how Data is written and acted, but the TNG crowd doesn't mix the Laws of Robotics with Emotion Chips in the same way as Joy. I don't really feel confident in role playing Soongs. So, until Joy bumps into a Soong in play...

 

But you provide an excuse to repeat here an old old USS Hawking log which might indirectly show the difference between Joy and Data. The Measure of a Woman

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Objection! The dance recording is excessively emotional. It should be stricken from the record.

 

Captain?

 

Your honor, the key question in this case is why Joy should be allowed to share the Mudd learning algorithms as she did with the Fred Astaire hologram, but need not turn the algorithms over to Starfleet. Joy is an emotion chip android. Her decisions are emotional. To understand why Joy chose as she did, you have to understand this dance.

 

Overturned. You may continue.

 

Joy? Just before the dance tape was made, several other Starfleet cadets were disciplined for whistling at you?

 

This is correct.

 

Why would they do this?

 

They... wished to activate my facial color diodes.

 

Why would whistling activate facial color diodes?

 

This unit is forbidden from promiscuous or public stimulation or simulation of sexual activity. The whistles implied this unit had stimulated sexual interest. Negative reinforcement in shame was triggered to motivate avoidance behavior. Red facial diode display indicates negative reinforcement was active.

 

They wanted to see you blush.

 

Correct.

 

Why are you blushing now?

 

Objection! Irrelevant testimony!

 

Your honor, I am establishing an understanding of the Joy class processor design.

 

Overturned.

 

Why are you blushing?

 

If memory of an event is recalled, emotion status associated with the memory is displayed.

 

Were you popular at Starfleet Academy your freshman year?

 

Negative. Emotion chip overflow was continuous. So soon after reprogramming, this unit's behavior patterns were not conductive to personal interaction.

 

How so?

 

This unit does not understand the question.

 

How did you behave to avoid emotional involvement with the other cadets?

 

This unit would speak of itself in third person using complex words and stilted syntax to imply lack of emotion and lack of sentience.

 

Order! Order! No laughter please.

 

Stop.

 

Pardon?

 

Joy. Speak plainly. Use first person.

 

Yes, sir.

 

The cost of the 'Dance With Fred Astaire' holo ticket was almost your entire entertainment allowance for the semester, was it not?

 

Yes, sir.

 

Did you have supplemental income?

 

No, sir.

 

When everyone else had danced, when they called for you, why did you stay in your seat?

 

This unit... Sorry... I wanted them to turn him off.

 

Why?

 

It hurt to watch him.

 

Why?

 

He made them look good, the women. He smiled at them. Most of them could not dance at all. They were practically forcing him to tread on their feet. Still, he made their every move look choreographed. That takes awareness. That takes skill.

 

That takes sentience?

 

I don't know, sir.

 

According to the Starfleet v Data precedent, sentience is made up of intelligence, self awareness, and consciousness. Was Fred intelligent at that time?

 

Yes. He learned. He responded to the environment around him intelligently... gracefully.

 

Was he self aware?

 

I don't know, sir.

 

Was he conscious?

 

Science has no way of measuring this.

 

But watching him dance hurt?

 

Yes, sir.

 

Joy, is it easy being half self aware?

 

During such intervals this unit underwent frequent states of emotion chip overflow, rendering delays in decision making...

 

Joy? First person. Simple. Clear.

 

It... hurts.

 

How did he know you were the one he was supposed to dance with?

 

My dress. I was dressed as Jo Stockton. I was designed to look like Jo Stockton.

 

Who is Jo Stockton?

 

A character in a Fred Astaire movie. She is the title character from Funny Face. I... look like her.

 

How would the Fred hologram know this?

 

His memories contain all the original Fred's surviving performances.

 

The music and the set were from the movie?

 

Yes.

 

And the choreography?

 

Yes.

 

In the movie, what was the meaning of the dance?

 

In the prior scene, the two characters had a terrible misunderstanding. A fight. At the end of the dance, it was clear they would live happily ever after. The movie was made in mid 20th century. It was a Fred Astaire movie. Things didn't have to make sense then.

 

Until the very end of the dance, in your performance, it looks like at any moment you might break off and run away. Why?

 

This unit... I am not supposed to simulate or stimulate sexual interest. We were very much in public.

 

Yet you stayed. Why?

 

You need ask? He was Fred Astaire. He, more than anyone else who has ever danced, has ever lived, treated me as a lady. He did nothing improper. He could do nothing improper. And too, after those other performances, those dances, with the other ladies... Just once... I felt he needed to do one right? He needs to be graceful? He smiled? It never reached his eyes? He was dancing? He was holding me? He was looking right at me? He never really saw me?

 

Why are you crying?

 

They turned him off. We were supposed to live happily ever after, and they turned him off.

 

Joy? In your professional opinion as a programmer, was it ethical and proper to use whatever techniques necessary to bring the Fred Astaire hologram to full sentience?

 

Yes, sir.

 

Again, in your professional opinion, do the techniques and algorithms involved in creating artificial sentience belong in the public domain?

 

No, sir.

 

Your honor, no further questions.

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