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- " The Ultimate Computer " is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.
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Written by D.C. Fontana (based on a story by Laurence N. Wolfe) and directed by John Meredyth Lucas, it was first broadcast on March 8, 1968. In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise race to disable a rogue computer in total control of the ship.
With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Marshall. Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- John Meredyth Lucas
- 1968-03-08
The Federation starship Enterprise enters orbit of the planet Alpha Carinae II. The Enterprise, under M-5 control, approaches the planet Alpha Carinae II, achieves standard orbit, and makes its recommendations for the landing party.
- 14 min
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Captain Kirk replies to an urgent (yet brief) message from Commodore Enright, which only tells him to report to the nearest space station. Once there, most of the crew is removed - held in a security area, leaving only a minimal skeleton crew on-board.
When Commodore Robert Wesley leads a squad of starships in practice maneuvers against the M-5-run Enterprise, the computer takes complete control of the starship and responds as though the attack is real, resulting in the death of the entire Excalibur crew.
It only works in this episode of Star Trek, a science-fiction show with cardboard sets, paper moons, and muslin trees. Kirk says he hopes that the M5 computer absorbed the capacity for regret and remorse from Daystrom’s mind--don’t make me laugh.
