Avon doesn't move even slightly when he explains technical stuff. It's fascinating to watch. It's like his brain shuts his body down in order to take the floor.
Orac almost destroys the Liberator here due to curiosity, and later he destroys Scorpio due to telling its Slave computer to STFU when it is trying to warn them of approaching patrol ships that go on to shoot Scorpio down.
Terry Nation was keen on the first Dr Who, Hartnell, he liked the grumpy old curmudgeon persona. He seems to have given Orac the same personality. Here Orac endangered the crew to learn more. Hartnell did the same when he wanted to visit the city of the Daleks in the first ever Dalek story. So Orac is a Doctor in a box. Just not a Police Box.
I think It would be possible to recreate an approximation of Orac now (in 2023). Several replicas already exits, it just needs one of them connecting to an AI and GPT 4 already has the ability to emulate the conversational style of Orac. You could use something like a Rasberry Pi for this.
Awesome. An AI with an attitude. Granted, an attitude towards expanding its knowledge base. How would ORAC react if someone told it that imagination is more important than all the knowledge in the universe?
@@richhughes7450 Ah, a chicken and egg situation. If they'd asked him to work out which was the cause and which the effect he'd have been too busy to lead them into a black hole.
While watching this I had epiphany. Why does Orac need any of the humans on Liberator? They are of no use for him, in fact they seem to just endanger his existence. All Orac needs is the Liberator and no-one else (even Avon flirted with this concept). It would be very easy for him to 'get rid' of the humans too. He could just tell Zen to open an airlock or shut off the oxygen supply etc. Er, maybe I'm taking this all too seriously.
@@lesigh1749 Additionally, Ensor gave him that removable power key for good reason. Orac depends on at least a measure of good human grace, otherwise they just pull his switch out.
