11001001 story
Bynars upgrade the Enterprise's computers in spacedock. Riker and Picard become distracted by a surprisingly realistic holodeck character.
24 total · 4 choice · 5 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| desperation | choice | The Bynars were desperate enough to risk offending the Federation. |
| great need vs. breaking the law | choice | The Bynars hijacked the Enterprise to save their planetary central computer. |
| telepathic being | choice | The Bynars used technology to mentally link themselves up in pairs. |
| virtual person | choice | Minuet was Riker's ideal woman, and a holodeck construct. |
| AI point of view | major | Bynars had a peculiar way of seeing things, as noted by Wesley, Riker, and Picard. |
| alien point of view | major | The Bynars were might peculiar to the Federation people, what with the Bynars being mind-linked in pairs, and connected to a central computer. |
| mentally distinguished being | major | The Bynars were said to think in binary. |
| society regulating central computer crash | major | Bynars relied on their planetary central computer to the extent that an outage threatened their civilization. |
| what is sentience | major | The viewer is made to ponder whether or not the holodeck character Minuet was sentient. |
| computer hacking | minor | Picard and Riker cracked the Bynar password. |