bintananth
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Assuming it can be controlled from a distance without being jammed.Who said anything about sending a sentient Robot. I am talking about a remotely operated one. You can make a user interface that allows for a non sentient machine to be controlled by a crewman to do the task. No AI needed.
Sulu obeyed the rules. Scotty's solution was "the simulation uses inadequate assumptions" instead of "I am cheating".Sulu didn't escort them back, he was like "well, they're in the neutral zone, too bad for them, we're not going in there, that's against the rules".
Scotty technically also cheated by intentionally breaking the simulation with some sort of computer trick that worked on paper but not in practice, so he failed the test and got sent into engineering.....which was what he wanted the whole time.