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Star Trek - The Ultimate Computer
episode 2.24
Raumschiff Enterprise - Computer M5
USA 1968
produced by John Meredyth Lucas, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Desilu, Norway Corporation/NBC
directed by John Meredyth Lucas
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Marshall, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Sean Morgan, Barry Russo
story by Laurence N. Wolfe, screenplay by D.C. Fontana, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Sol Kaplan, Fred Steiner
TV series Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The Enterprise is to become the testing vessel for Dr. Daystrom's
(William Marshall) new supercomputer which would render most of a
starship's crew redundant in this year's wargames. Captain Kirk (William
Shatner) doesn't have a good feeling about this, while Dr. McCoy (DeForest
Kelley) unsurprisingly hates it, and not even Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is too
fascinated. But the first engagement seems to prove them wrong as the
computer reacts faster and more precisely than any human could. It's when
it blows up an unmanned transport ship without provocations that everybody
knows something's wrong. Kirk and company want to take the computer off
the grid, against Daystrom's wishes, but they can't as the computer starts
to defend itself. Then four Starfleet ships launch a simulated attack, but
the computer answers with real firepower, killing people in the process.
Daystrom, who has taught his computer to think like a human and loves it
like a child, tries to reason with it, but fails, so it's up to Kirk's
hyperboles to convince the computer to shut itself down. There's
some good acting in this one, but overall it doesn't have much going for
it, as the story's just too predictable, too talky, and its resolution is
actually rather silly. Not that this is a bad episode in the actual
meaning of the word, it's just not very good, either, and aside from the
fan factor, not very entertaining.
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