Talk:I, Mudd

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the plot motive of robots both serving and ruling humans seems to have inspired the recent Will Smith I, Robot movie user:vroman

• Uh, I think Asimov's short story "I ROBOT" inspired "I Robot". Cyberia23 6 July 2005 07:16 (UTC)

• • You're both wrong. "I, Mudd" didn't inspire the recent movie "I, Robot", and the Issac Asimov short story "I, Robot" featured robots who obeyed the Three Laws of Robotics (including "A robot shall not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm"), a Dr. Susan Calvin who was quite old but nevertheless still performed all the heroics, neither of which was present in the recent turkey of a movie, "I, Robot." --Lmauler (talk) 03:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Thankfully for fans of real Robot stories by Issac Asimov, "I, Robot" wasn't created with Asimov's rational robots in mind, but originated as a screenplay titled "Hardwired" by American screenwriter Jeff Vintar (for a hint as to how terrible a screenwriter he is, he is the screenwriter responsible for that box office bomb "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"). The studio managed to arrange the rights to Issac Asimov's short story collection "I, Robot", then renamed the movie "I, Robot" (confusing millions of Asimov fans expecting to see a good movie) and patched in elements of the Issac Asimov robot stories without regard for maintaining a coherent whole. Or, for that matter, writing a movie faithful to Issac Asimov Robot stories. --Lmauler (talk) 03:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Short circuiting

• The crew then engage in a series of illogical and clownishly silly activities in an attempt to confuse and overload the Norman android. The finishing blow comes when Mudd and Kirk pose Norman the Liar paradox, where Mudd claims he is lying and Kirk claims everything Mudd says is a lie. Short circuiting at this imponderable logical contradiction, Norman finally shuts down.

There is no explanation of why watching human silliness would "overload" an android. Particularly, why would an analysis of the Liar paradox cause a short circuit?

Surely, a computer program sophisticated enough to handle natural language tasks would be able to identify and handle the paradoxical statements. Any race advanced enough to create androids ought to be able to write software with adequate error handling functions. --Uncle Ed (talk) 16:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Monarchal title

Some of the dialogue is wrong, if Harry Mudd becomes a king, he would be King Harry, not King Mudd. The current head of state of the UK is Queen *Elizabeth*, not Queen Windsor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.251.53 (talk) 18:45, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

@77.96.251.53 But Americans use President Biden, President Kennedy etc so why not blend the two forms of address for an alien planet? 84.71.36.28 (talk) 12:04, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Plot confusion

Perhaps someone familiar with the plot of the episode could correct the end of this sentence in the fifth paragraph: "In response to Kirk's questions, the androids tell Kirk they were built by a people from the Andromeda Galaxy, who were destroyed by a supernova, l of majing planet preaving the robots to fend for themselves."? Jrharber56 (talk) 12:19, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

torture

Wouldn't trapping Mudd with 500 copies of his nagging wife count as Cruel and Unusual punishment? 84.71.36.28 (talk) 12:08, 19 June 2022 (UTC)