Logic Bomb: Difference between revisions

**::* Subverted in the same episode: Nomad believed that Kirk (who it still thought was its creator) was imperfect. When Kirk asked how an imperfect being could have created a perfect machine, ''Nomad'' simply concluded that it had no idea.

*:* In "The Ultimate Computer", he convinced M5 ("save men from the dangerous activities of space exploration") that it had violated its own prime directive by killing people.

*:* In "That Which Survives", he forced a hologram to back off by making her consider the logic of killing to protect a dead world, and why she must kill if she knows it's wrong.

*:* In "I, Mudd", he defeated the androids by confusing them with almost [[Dada]]-like illogical behavior (including a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WSIXxTx4I "real" bomb]), ending with the Liar's Paradox on their leader.

**:* A ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Role-Playing Game]]'' adventure (involving [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|an AI that ran a generation ship]]) describes this as the James Kirk School of Computer Repair. (And explicitly states that it won't work in this case.)

*:* Another one involving Kirk: In "Requiem for Methuselah", the android's creator used Kirk to stir up emotions in it, but he succeeded a bit too well, causing her to short out when she couldn't reconcile her conflicting feelings for both Kirk and her creator.

*:* "What Are Little Girls Made Of" had him arrange to have a robot duplicate of him say [[Something He Would Never Say]] to Mr. Spock; he follows up by [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lecturing]] [[The Dragon]] du jour into remembering [[Kill All Humans|why]] [[Precursor Killers|he helped destroy the "Old Ones"]] so he'd turn on the episode's [[Anti-Villain]]. For a finale, he {{spoiler|forces the roboticized Dr. Korby to realize that he's the [[Tomato in the Mirror]].}} He also pulled the "seduce the [[Robot Girl]]" trick.

*:* Even ''Spock'' did this once. In "Wolf in the Fold", when the ''Enterprise'' computer was possessed by Redjac (a.k.a. Jack the Ripper), Spock forced the entity out by giving the computer a top-priority order to devote its entire capability calculating pi to the last digit.