FUN WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS:

(If you aren't already familiar with recurrent neural networks, why not see Andrej Karpathy's excellent blog?)

These days, thanks to The Wonders of Science[TM], we can train neural networks to imitate different styles of text by showing them some examples. Often the results are gibberish, but occasionally in this gibberish there is a nugget of... less gibberish. There are many fine Python libraries out there to let one run RNN experiments: I am using textgenrnn, and fine-tuning its stock model on data of my own whimsical fancy. Here is a selection of the most interesting, perplexing, or otherwise notable outputs.

I trained the network on lists of all Star Trek television episode titles, across all the series (TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and STD). The different eras all have their own particular styles: TOS titles can be prolix, TNG tend to be snappy, DS9 more philosophical, and so on. Let's see how much of this colour we can catch by training a network on each era's titles separately...

Using only TOS/TAS titles:

• Assignment: Bath
• Mirror of the Pirates of Piece of Gone
• Mr Turnabout Woode
• Space Incident
• The Cloud Tribbles
• The Conscience of the Gun
• The Counter-Clock Beer
• The Counter-Slavers of Troyius
• The Success of This Year
• The Time of Our Incident
• The Way to That

Now TNG titles:

• A Face Time
• Coping Play Paris
• Data's Father
• Man of the Long Play
• Pope Ok
• Ship the Watchers
• The Beet of Ground
• The Booby
• The Bottom
• The Ears
• The Mental People
• Tour My Enemy

DS9:

• Babel Shops
• Battle card to the Prophets
• Bogs differed to the Shadow
• Cardassians
• Dramatis Death Among the Warrior, Part II
• In the Warrior, Part II
• Strange Investigation
• The Darkness to the Storyteller
• The Search Lint
• The Sword of Her Moon
• The Way to the Stone Line

And I guess VOY, I mean we might as well...

• And Tim
• Ball Factors
• Concerning Frontier, Part I
• Driving Dark Days
• Eye Hell
• Once antinations front
• Random
• Renaissance Blood Scene
• The Flesh and Prosper

Some of the best fake examples come from training a network up on all the series' titles combined:

• A Loving Force of Fear
• All One Second
• Basics of Story
• Battle Sex
• Email
• Fast and Dead
• Friending
• Inside Darkly
• Into My Googy
• Invasive Prophets
• Past Fleek
• Shades of the More War
• Shadows of Killifistion
• Shat Without
• Silica Apple
• State of Hell, Part is Demons
• The Adversary's Colon, Part I
• The Car Mate
• The Child's Pale Incident
• The Darkness and the Man
• The Darkness of Tribbles
• The Dogs of Troi
• The Fist of Bone
• The Light of the Long Fire
• The Part I
• The Peaching of Engagement
• The Secretion
• The Segmenting of All
• The Sharper Behind
• The Suck as Fold
• The Way is not Science
• The Way to Angels
• The Way to the Masterpiece
• The Way to the Street

And of course, in honour of the best Trek character of all time:

• Any One for Morn
• Bernover's for the Life and Out for Morn
• Beyond the War Morn
• Blink for Morn
• Pen Morn
• Star Morn
• Terra Morn
• The Children of Morn
• The Darkness of Morn
• The Voice of Morn
• The War Morn
• Time's Game Counts and Some Than Morn