Remember the old Star Trek episode, when Kirk drives the destructive probe insane? "Must analyze ... an-a-lyze! ... ANALYZE!!!"
Captain's Log, stardate supplemental. We have taken aboard Nomad, an alien probe whose mission it is to destroy all forms of life which are not perfect. Dr. McCoy seems especially concerned.
"Blast it, Jim, we've got to stop it," said McCoy. "It's just zapped Lieutenant Uhura!"
"She was singing off-key, Doctor," said Spock defensively.
"IM-PERFECT." The Nomad unit blasted two security guards.
"Blast your logic!" said McCoy. "We've got to do something! None of us here is perfect."
"Perfect," said Kirk. "That's it," he said.
"What's it?" said McCoy, always the slow one.
"IM-PERFECTION." The Nomad unit blasted two more security guards.
"If we sent it to a place where everyone was nearly perfect...."
They rushed Nomad to the transporter room, and just in time, too; they were running out of security guards.
80 years later....
"Captain," said Data. "I'm picking up an object, coming out of a space-time disturbance on our starboard bow...."