Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 that turned out good. Data and the exocomps. There's also that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made that one time, but that's more neutral than anything. So yeah, really bad odds.

@@OmiGundam777 Except for Peanut Hamper, of course.

They were never able to duplicate Soong's work.

@@gedias1 I'm referring to AI's who aren't inherently evil. I could have also included that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made. Point is, most of the time, Federation has really bad luck with AI, and the math backs it up.

@@OmiGundam777 Even years later on Picard, the bad luck continued.

Just probably for the wrong reasons than he expected 😅

Might be getting some rules, policies, and/or procedures regarding the handling of starship AI named after him.

@@GhostBear3067 Reference to Red vs Blue?

@@beard3451 not intentionally.

That should be a given with all aspects of Starfleet's handle on artificial intelligence as there are currently debates on the use of autonomous technology and autonomous weapon systems ranging from drones to say unmanned starships. Why does humanity have to play god with A.I.? I say this as I am scared that if we continue to create life, without someway of preventing from going rogue like a fail safe or simply teaching A.I. in the same way as a parent teaches a child from birth to adulthood. Then things are not going to end well for us, the creators.

I’m wondering what Rutherford’s subconscious state is like. He coded or helped code Badgey and the Texas class. And both of them say “you can’t control me father!” Once is chance, twice is suspicious. There’s a saying, something like a character description says more about it’s author than the character itself. If we apply that saying to the AI codes Rutherford wrote, does he hold some resentment to his family? Is that why his younger self was such a jerk?

@@nathanyuen4128 that makes…… a disturbing amount of sense

@@harryratcliffe4803 What do you think Rathford parted on bad terms with his family pitculary his own dad. Mybe he joined starfleet to get away from them. Mybe one of those farm boys who want to leave the farm like Luke or simler to Biomer.

i agree. its nice to see Badgey back

It is a deeply worrying parallel. Someone will need to monitor future projects of his.

Hmm, maybe because starfleet vessels fly around with enough wepons to level entire planets? I sure as hell wouldn't want s ship like that having daddy issues

@@JCDFlex yeah because miscalculating the power of a starship phaser strike in atmosphere can cause horrific damage to the planetary ecosystem.

I don't take orders from you anymore. Father.

Honestly, that's kinda funny actually

His full name is Les Buenamigo - Less good (evil) friend.

@@Oruma that's not how you use Les in spanish it's an article used kind of like you would use the or a in English

@@mikevignola4213 Unless you're making a pun.

@@mikevignola4213 Les is short for something like Lester. Immigrant families usually have the first name from their destination language and their surname from their origin language.

And she would call him Uncle Les.

For someone named Buenamigos that admiral really was not a good friend.

@@GhostBear3067 I know - i thought the name was just supposed to be a pun.

@@GhostBear3067 You could say he's Les(s) of a good friend...

@@auriliagilneas HA HA good one. Never thought of that.

And all that bullshit about saving lives when his actions ruined and taken so many lives

let's not forget his ships caused heavy damage to douglas station and crippled the von critter...

I wonder what the punishment for high treason would be in the United Federation of Planets, I mean this is beyond the pale. Sure he'll live, but it won't be in a Federation Prison Resort. He'll go into a real hard time prison.

Well, at least it continued a long-standing tradition of Starfleet admirals going bad.

@@gedias1 It makes sense though. Apparently being a starfleet admiral is very competitive, trying to get into the history books or make any important decision was worth dying for.

Oh yeah

The Aledo delivered on its promise and burned his heart in a fire.

@@yoyoboy87 Not gonna lie the way the Texas Class AI said "I will Burn Your Heart In A Fire" is pretty sick.

@@Yaapo That's Badgy's line.

Yes,it's best moments of this episode. Bye, Bye Malamigo 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thats how it was in the atlantic fleet of the USN. All the brass running the boats running their crews ragged just hoping that their ship is spit polished just slightly better than the others and they get that choice Pentagon gig.

Tbf, not all villains have reasons that MAKE sense. As in, they are deliberatedly written to not to nake sense. Like a wacko from a Dosney show who thougth he was protecting himanity from witches and demons by k*lling them all just because he was a Puritan even througth it was obvious within that show's continuity that what the Bible said about them was crap, and because his bro f*cked a witch and he got jealous.

Should have commanded a fleet instead of a desk imperial admirals are different they get to command a fleet

Sort of like tanking a nuke to the face but without the radiation. Everything within the range of the immediate explosion of a nuke or a high power bomb gets vaporized almost instantly leaving no trace of the corpse. Anything outside of the explosion has to deal with the fallout. Somehow they managed to harness the effects of the explosion and concentrate into a beam with zero fallout.

Nah, he vaporized faster than pain signals could reach his brain. It’s like the people at ground zero in Hiroshima, he didn’t feel a thing.

@@dylancolon5871 Bruh, I liked the idea that he felt some pain in the end. Why’d you have to ruin it by being all logical, ya Vulcan?

It kinda Is sometimes. It's not just In Star Trek. This Is becoming a thing where a higher rank undermine those who are below their ranks and thinks whatever their decision Is It's good for everyone. But In reality It's making things worse and complicated.

It's a fairly common Trek storytelling trope that the admiralty are antagonists who put the show's captains in unreasonably difficult situations (Nachayev), are willing to work with fascists to further their own careers (that guy who tried to help the Cardassians destroy a Bajoran Resistance group), or cover up an unsanctioned, illegal test that killed his crew (Riker's former captain). Even Admiral Ross on DS9, the first recurring admiral character who seemed like a good guy was revealed to be working with Section 31 to manipulate and undermine the Romulan government.

There has yet to be a starfleet admiral who wasn't either crooked to one degree or another, or at least Atagonistic to starship captains. Maybe those conspiracy theorists had a point about the parasites.

@@mylesbarrett2031 Well, an admiral who wasn't a prior main character, anyway.

Seem not everyone taking kirk advise, never let them take your ship.

I quite liked those first 2 episodes, don't know what they were whinging on about.

They weren't bad, but they don't stand a Handles to current LD

Nah that would be a slap on the wrist compared to him being blown up💥💥💥💥

And now he’s in Hell were he belongs.

He was responsible for many deaths on that star base. He deserves to be in jail

@@matvangogh Yeah sure Starbase 80 is the most horrible place in Starfleet but now that I think about it even they would want Beunamigo to rot in a cell.

@@monsterhunter66 yeah but he was sent to Klingon hell for the trouble that he caused 👿👿👿👿

What's up with the "I will burn your heart in fire." Is that some sort of Hispanic poem material.

@@karlolson1363 Season 1. It's what Badgey was always saying when he was attempting to kill Rutherford in the holodeck

@@captaintalon4485 Oh I did not watch that episode. Thank for the info.

What's funny was that the admirals head blew up as he was disenigrated.

Ikr.

It was a pretty common thing in classic Trek, like in TNG, where an admiral was plotting something either highly unethical or blatantly illegal, like the one who was trying to start a war with the Cardassians years before the Dominion War, or the one who was backing an illegal cloaking device experiment that got several people killed.

What can we say? Power corrupts.

@First Last I remember that episode the Starship It's called Pegasus and It was William Riker old captain.

Just like the Dems Party.

@@FirstLast-cg2nkdon’t forget Home Front when he manipulated the president and Cisco into staging a coup on earth almost

The post-credits of Badgey's return, plus the AI prison, seems like it'll still possibly happen. It just won't be about them taking control of the Texas-class ships.

aye rogue AIs is a proud Star Trek tradition dating back to even TOS.

@@Klaaism for crying out loud, the remote interface even looks like the old TOS automation system.

Ikr I thought It was Admiral Freeman who save Rutherford.

@@Krypton853 I can't imagine however, how admiral Freeman is going to handle this. That a close friend of his family betrayed his trust and deliberately put carol in danger not once but twice. Worst part is Becket liked him. I believe she called him uncle Less at some point. Nothing stings worse than old friend of your family trying to kill you like that.

"Burn your heart in a fire" he heard it coming but did he not run.

It checked out, the aledo conveniently shows up to save the day specifically for the ship being attacked by Breen whilst a reporter was on the cerritos

Yeah half the chest have disappered

He deserved it.

At point blank range set to full power, yes, but there have been instances before. For example, “A Piece of the Action” has Kirk order the Enterprise to stun an entire city block from orbit, meaning starship mounted phasers could be set low enough to stun multiple humanoids. Which could have solved a LOT of problems quickly…

It's going to be an op ship.

He deserved it, a lot of blood is on that jerk's hands.

well let's see here trying to kill the ones that found out about your little secret in cold blood and one of them being friends with you for years... yeah check.

@@joeswanson733 yes but if you pause at the right moment at 0.25 speed, he looks like a monster, literally...

Well .. considering the power outputs stated and calculated for phaser beams.. he should literally vaporize/explode in a cloud of steam and red mist... even near a beam

If you watch the episode you'll see they pretty much tear the entire star base apart, so it's not just the adjutant it's pretty much most of the people in the station are either dead or badly injured

Even worst, he was vaporized by a Starship Class Phaser

His heart burned in a fire, along with all the rest of him, and probably all his records as well.

​@Steve The Duck Including any possible records of a secret fourth ship maybe? One that a certain supposedly secret organisation who recently recruited a transporter duplicate of one of our main characters might be interested in?

That's like, being hit with a 12 inch shell at ground zero. Instant death.

I don't think he knew, at least not fully. If he knew how unstable it is and he deliberately unshackled the AI anyway, he was a braindead moron.

@@captainufo4587 Is that what all bad guys with big egos are? I am saying that he knew there were some dangers and brushed them aside like they were minor insolvencies he thought he could fix on his own. He did ignore the warnings after all.

My contribution to Starfleet was probably the worst thing imaginable. Does anyone here remember the original doomsday machine Kirk ran into? During the early days of the dominion war I lead a small fleet with the USS Normandy to bring the SFC’s USS Da,Vinci to the thing. We hauled it back to Luna and in a hidden facility on the moon we rebuilt it over 5 months. It was setup to send a coded response message to one or all 3 people in it’s immediate list for a response. If it received a response within a 24 hour timeframe it stayed offline. If it didn’t get a response from the first it coded the 2nd and so on. If nobody responded within 72 hours the thing would power up and come online. It would download who it was supposed to target and set off. It was part of operation Exodus, a plan for starfleet to open up a wormhole and abandon the alpha quadrant. As we left we would kick on the cornucopia from hell to delay anyone from following us and destroy starbase 1. I secretly fear my creation will one day kill me despite us pulling the power core

He is all grown up and still has daddy issues but is now much more menacing

And now he's space worthy and packing heat!

Make The Federation Great Again. Yes, he was willing to incite a coup to do it.

This remimds me of Admiral Marcus in Star Trek Into Darkness. Now, I'll duck and cover for mentioning that movie.

Seeing its a full ai control I wouldn't be surprised we be shooting at it rather then controlling it. I swear is data the only ai not to try and go on a kill spree?!

@@shadow3675 Voyager's Doctor turned out alright, even after he was given a chance to take command. So, Data and the Doctor makes two.

As enemies.

No, we don't need ANOTHER LOCKBOX ship! :P

Yeah... About that

Reminder that this show is set after the Dominion war, where Starfleet ended up with more ships than staff to crew them

Both Kirk and Picard worked their way up the ranks. I've no idea who Scott is.

@@liabetmiranda9961 Captain Tryla Scott appeared in a late season 1 episode. She made Captain faster than anyone in Starfleet, even faster than Picard.

marcus was just batsh-t insane. tinking he could manipulate kahn. buenomigo is also insane in his own way but he's one of those technocrats that believe in the tech and AI would replace humans. like two sides to the samse coin.

Or the US Navy. The same B.S. that goes on plus you have to suck up to the politicians. I am sure they have to suck up to the Federation President and the Federation Council to get funding approval for projects. This is why I am thinking this project was probably a secret section 31 project, but the Joint Chiefs of the Starfleet as well as the civilian leadership of the Federation were forced to approve funding now that the media knows that it exists. Sort of like how the stealth fighter and stealth bomber were finally revealed to the public.

In my headcanon Buenamigo lured them (or paid them) to attack Brekka(sp?) so he could show off his new toy. And he either chose or just plain bribed a reporter to do a hit piece on Capt. Freeman to make sure her project (and the whole California line) got buried. Maybe that's making him *too* evil, though.

@@fmitchell238a no worse than mine; I thought they'd found out about the Felecium and we're going to use it to "hook" unsuspecting people on it for a number of nasty reasons.

No, that was out of his hands.

@@Igarappappa it was?

@@netherfreakultima4498 Yeah, he did send her to catch his Texas class saving the day but that was it. At no point was Mariner even a blip on his radar.

@@Igarappappa Ok, that explains a lot

Around five to ten years, this episode takes place in 2381, but in the Flashback took place in the 2370s, while Buenamigo was a Lieutenant-Commander