Instead, today, we feel the opposite-that we are helpless components in a global system-a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or to change.

However, he couldn't help wondering if the same rigid logic which had made the Borg so easy to manipulate could, in the same way, someday bring ruin to Vulcan.

Perfect memory, rigid logic, no judgment.

There was nothing real in the sphere, nothing on to which he could hook the rigid logic of his race.

Kirk looked from one to the other, caught up by their rigid logic.

The trunk soared upward, a pillar of rigid logic and history and consistency.

But in the real world, such rigid logic is unrealistic and dangerous.

With their rigid logic, they would need times of emotional release, and the mating period seemed appropriate.

It is a follow to the Fifth Generation project, an effort to design an "inference machine," or a computer that did not require rigid logic.

According to the show's rigid logic, the magic disappears when the sanctity of the original lineup is violated: you can keep going with a new bassist, but it just won't be the same.