Android
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An android is an advanced robot designed and built to imitate humanoids.
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[edit] History
[edit] Prime universe
Over half a million years ago, the sun within the Exo system began to cool which left the planet Exo III a veritable frozen wasteland. At the time, the world was inhabited by a race known only as the Old Ones who began to age in time. They used their advanced knowledge to create androids as their feeble bodies meant that they had to seek other methods in order to survive. This led to the development of machines that were not only a simple artificial intelligence but possessed artificial consciousness as they believed that the only way to survive was to create true artificial life.
Ultimately, they succeeded to a certain extent but their creations were less than perfect. Whilst they were indeed self aware androids, their consciousnesses were stagnant and could not process new experiences for personal growth. The Old Ones creations begged their creators to fix them but the only way to do so was to wipe the slate clean and start from the beginning. At first, the Old Ones sought to destroy their creations but they grew more demanding as well as dangerous. Realizing the danger they were in, the Old Ones acted quickly and secretly but in order to buy themselves time they promised to fix their androids even though it was not possible. They were instead working to transfer their consciousnesses into unformatted android bodies but their plans were discovered by the androids who were responsible for killing all the Old Ones.
Whilst their creators were dead, the androids developed a degree of paranoia to all organic life who they believed were a threat to their existence. As the Old Ones never developed space flight technology, the androids were restricted to their world and hoped that another intelligent organic species would discover them. When such an event occured, the androids planned to take over the "invaders" space craft and use it to escape in order to find a solution to their inherent problem that the Old Ones denied them. Til that time, the androids decided to enter into stasis and left one of their own behind to serve as caretaker as well as watchmen while they were slumbering. (TNG novel: Immortal Coil)
Earth's military was rumored to be experimenting with android development in the early 21st century. (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky) During the Third World War, android impostors were used for assassinations, and further research was banned following this conflict. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
In 2266, Doctor Roger Korby attempted to replace key personal throughout the United Federation of Planets covertly in order to force his ideals of a perfect medical cure which was immortality. However, his plans were discovered by Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise who stopped him from completing his goal. This saw the destruction of Ruk who had forgotten about the slumbering Exo III androids that were in stasis deep within the planet. (TOS episode: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", TNG novel: Immortal Coil)
Sometime after this chain of events in 2304, Noonien Soong along with Emil Vaslovik and Ira Graves journeyed to Exo III where they released the androids from stasis. These machines eventually discovered Korby's crashed starship and spent decades where they used its technology as a template to create their own vessels. Going into space, they began a campaign of secretly gathering intelligence on the Federation and Starfleet for years. This led to their discovery of Starfleet's holotronic android project. This they believed was the cure they needed to fix themselves of their design faults and thus they sought to capture Rhea McAdams who was the first prototype of this type of androids. (TNG novel: Immortal Coil)
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[edit] Alternate universes
In one alternate universe, there was wide scale development of androids after the success of Doctor Noonien Soong's Soong-type androids.
The Romulan-Klingon Alliance also developed androids that were cruder models compared to the Soong-type androids of the Federation. These were governed by a rigid and strict programming in order for them to serve as Romulan shock troopers in combat engagements. (TNG novel: Brave New World)
[edit] Connections
- Android article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Android article at Star Trek Expanded Universe, the fanon Star Trek wiki.
