On 10/07/2014 03:39 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/7/2014 3:52 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
But then again, MANY people seem to be repelled by any mention of
logic, whereas
I've aways been attracted to it, so maybe that's just my own bias.
Amusingly, Mr. Spock was the most illogical member of the crew.
There was one episode in particular that really bugged me with that.
Left me thinking "Uhh, I'm not sure the writer actually understood logic
very well":
Spock and a few crew members were stranded in a shuttle with seemingly
no chance for rescue except for a one-in-a-million longshot. Spock
objected to actually doing the longshot because he'd inexplicably
decided that its chances were really zero (even though logic would
*really* dictate the chances were merely very small - which was
obviously an improvement, albeit minor, over the "do nothing and
guarantee lack of rescue" approach Spock was bizarrely in favor of).
Oddly, the episode was clearly *trying* to tell people "logic isn't
always right, use your gut"...which was interesting because, uhh, the
author's logic wasn't right ;)
Left me with a very big "Wait...WTF?!?" That episode's been bugging me
ever since!
