"Narrow Spread Concerns"

[Tovan 0]

Lt. Cmdr. Tovan

Acting CENG

Log Entry

SD 50506.07

 

 

 

~~~Log Recording

 

 

At the current pace of technology developement, there seems to be no limitations to it. Of course there are many limitations present but I believe those limitations would soon diminish one by one. Our dependence upon technology seems to be soaring, in the past few hundred years, civilizations built vast fleets of starships, terraformed incolonizable planets, created evil, conquered evil and placed a choking hand on disease's throat. Advanced artificial technologies had been founded, perfected and built, and now a fully automated station.

 

Before setting my first steps aboard Manticore, I thought of the ship as one of the most advanced in starfleet, and of course it is, Nebula class vessels had been greatly improved and augmented with more advanced technology. Regarding Manticore as a blackops vessel was far more advanced than any Nebula Class in the fleet. Of course if one asked if a full built station nearly a thousand kilometers in diameter, operated by itself, defended itself, processed itself and repair itself, one would have questioned it's legitmacy. But be hold what Manticore's crew are stand upon now - An automated station.

 

For the past days engineering crews slaved around their consoles and monitors, recording and piecing together the puzzle on how this station functioned, we're glad to know the station better but its automated systems really placed us - as humans would say "out of the job".

 

To test the station's consistency and stamina, The Admiral manually imputted codes to disturpt the station's normal function. As the data records show, 4 different accesses to the manual override and 4 restatements of the overriden functions. Gravity, lights, core valves and core dump. The computer responded immediately. The station itself had the power to ignore the override of the Admiral's commands. That is quite a disturbing thought.

 

Out of curiousity I pondered what would occur if the station gained selfawarence like an A.I.? Admiral's overrides would be meaningless and the crew would be under complete control of the station, the builders at the creation's mercy. I've traced this exact thought through Earth's past, there were countless books written in that regard and became a center stone in the present, there are not many machines with A.I. 'runing' about yet.

 

For the record, the crew are in no danger and I would remove the previous thought from my mind. There are always possibilities and I believe this is one that cannot be ignored ever so lightly. I intend to further study the intricacies of the automation programming, very different from actual A.I. but worth a look on my engineering experience. Perhaps in the future, perfected copies of the program would be used aboard key vessels in the federation fleet.

 

~~~~Log Ended