batie@agora.hf.intel.com (Alan Batie) (10/11/89)
> [I for one have never heard or read "nannites". Leafing through > EOC, one sees the term "assembler" used fairly consistently. > I didn't the episode referred to. Would anyone care to summarize? > --JoSH] In this episode, Wesley experiments with "nannites", tiny mechanical critters that are used for microsurgery "gigabytes of mechanical memory". He put two of them together somehow to basically allow them to evolve. While pulling an all-nighter, he falls asleep and two of his experiments go on an expedition of their own. This is the point where the show starts (we find out what happened via reconstruction). The nannites find that the main computers are a wealth of raw materials and have a feeding frenzy, causing the Enterprise computers to have fits, jeopardizing the lifetime work of an ex-"whiz-kid" scientist. This work will come to fruition with the monitoring of a stellar explosion at close hand. These explosions occur once every 196 years. Eventually, Data is able to communicate with them and negotiate a truce, including giving them a planet to colonize. -- Alan Batie +1 503 640-4013 1221 N.E. 51st, #227 batie@agora.hf.intel.com Hillsboro, OR 97124 tektronix!tessi!agora!batie