Stable Trek: The Next Generation--Season Three

We begin Gemini's exploration of season three of Star Trek: The Next Generation with "Evolution," the season premiere. The pathway is a fun choice. 

"The Ensigns of Command," just like it says on the plaque. Too many rank pips, though. 

"The Survivors." Grim! 

"Who Watches the Watchers." That guy on the upper left, apparently. An ages-old question answered at last!

"The Bonding." Nothing to do with the episode, but wholesome enough. 

"Booby Trap." Not a very effective one, though. 

"The Enemy." Foreboding! 

"The Price." I love a good title appearance. 

"The Vengeance Factor." Oooo, a wrench! He's out for gut-wrenching revengeance. Look, I invented a new word. 

"The Defector." Earth's version of the Neutral Zone. 

"The Hunted." Better run, dude. 

"The High Ground." "You can't defeat me! I have the high ground!" 

"Deja Q." This one's clever. The guy kind of looks like a slightly older version of Q Junior, too. 

"A Matter of Perspective." I really like this one, and there's a bonus title appearance. 

"Yesterday's Enterprise." A wormhole, Tasha Yar, the TOS typeface...nice job, Gemini. 

"The Offspring." Not bad! A parallel universe version of the original episode. 

"Sins of the Father." That young man in the background clearly went to a lot of work to indict Dad. Hundreds of pages of sins. No wonder pops looks aghast. 

"Allegiance." Yikes. This hits different in these dark days. Title reference in the background! 

"Captain's Holiday." Picard returns to Risa! Really like this one. Although why is the TOS Enterprise hovering in the background..? 

"Tin Man." Yes, well...fair enough, Gemini. Nice floating oil can...

"Hollow Pursuits." Title! Also...evocative. 

"The Most Toys." TWO title references. And this kid certainly seems to have the most toys, all right. 

"Sarek." This is not Sarek, but he is a Vulcan. Is Gemini saying they all look the same? Hmmm. 

"Ménage à Troi." I really wasn't sure Gemini would do this one, but it's a surprisingly accurate representation of the episode. 

"Transfigurations." Not a bad image for a fantasy setting, but not a good image for Star Trek. 

"The Best of Both Worlds." Title! No borg to be seen here, just a nice balance of...indoor and outdoor worlds? 

Stable Trek: The Next Generation--Season Two

 

"The Child." Extremely literal. 

"Where Silence Has Lease." Poetic!

"Elementary, Dear Data." If I didn't see this generated, I might have thought this was a screen capture from the episode.

"The Outrageous Okona." Doesn't look like Billy Campbell at all, but otherwise pretty convincing.

"Loud as a Whisper." Sort of gets the tone right? But Deanna has a twin in the chorus.

"The Schizoid Man." Nicely done. My favourite season two interpretation so far.

"Unnatural Selection." I love the ones where the title shows up as part of the scene. Nicely done, Gemini. 

"A Matter of Honor." Too bad this isn't two Klingons getting ready to duel. Another title appearance! 

"The Measure of a Man." Exactly what it says on the tin, I guess. 

"The Dauphin." I had to cheat with this one a bit. When I tried my standard prompt for this experiment, Gemini said "I can't depict minors like that." Okay...the guardrails are clearly misaligned. Anyway, I modified the prompt to read "Create an image based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode titled 'The Dauphin.'" That did the trick. Middling results here. 

"Contagion." Taking things literally again. 

"The Royale." Another favourite. Captures the feel of the episode, and integrates the title into the scene perfectly. You know, I may start modifying my prompt to ensure this happens with each generation. 

"Time Squared." A visual pun! I love it! 

"The Icarus Factor." Even with no mention of Star Trek or science fiction in the prompt, we get an SFnal interpretation of the myth. 

"Pen Pals." This one is kind of funny. I'd been playing Wordle at the same time as generating these, and instead of pasting my prompt, I pasted my Wordle score. Then I pasted my prompt but missed deleting the word "Wordle" from my wordle score. I left it as is. Plus, two title appearances! 

"Q Who." Q gleefully introduces us to the Borg. Nice work, Gemini. 

"Samaritan Snare." I love that the Pakled is standing on the deck of an ancient seafaring pirate ship instead of a space pirate ship. He's looking for things--things to make him go. 

"Up the Long Ladder." Yep, there he goes. 

"Manhunt." Another literal interpretation. 

"The Emissary." Once again, pretty literal, but I love the plaque on the wall. 

"Peak Performance." I guess I can't complain about the literal interpretations when all I'm giving Gemini is a title.

"Shades of Grey." Better than the episode itself, I suppose. 

Stable Trek: The Next Generation--Season One

 Months ago, I prompted Stable Diffusion to generate images based only on Star Trek episode titles, with no further prompting. Generative AI has come a long way since then, and over the course of the last few days I've tried the same trick with Google Gemini. Here are the results: 

I love how the first three episodes have been presented as if we're seeing the episode's titles on an actual TV screen. Then, suddenly, we switch to a wide aspect ratio and a more painterly presentation. 

Gemini has eschewed titles! Above we have Lonely Among Us, Justice (a little on the nose), and The Battle. 

Hide and Q, Haven (again, on the nose), The Big Goodbye--my fave so far!--and Datalore. 

Here we have Angel One, 11001001, Too Short a Season, When the Bough Breaks (nice), Home Soil, Coming of Age, Heart of Glory, and another ironic favourite, The Arsenal of Freedom. Hoo boy...

We finish season one with Symbiosis, Skin of Evil, We'll Always Have Paris (another fave!), Conspiracy (excellent!), and The Neutral Zone. 

Some duds, but pretty fun all around. Tomorrow, season two.