[TOS] The Ultimate Computer

[TOS] Season 2, Episode 24 (Netflix: S2 E24): The Ultimate Computer

The Ultimate Computer

Rating: 2

This episode covers themes of machines/computers replacing people. If you find this theme interesting you’ll probably like this episode. The story plays out how you would expect, and Kirk even talks the computer to death.

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Notes:

They're going to run some war games with Enterprise being controlled by a super computer

They’re going to run some war games with Enterprise being controlled by a super computer

Yup, this is the ultimate computer

Yup, this is the M-5, the ultimate computer. The M-4 didn’t come with a steel drum

Kirk wants to go down to a planet with Bones and a geologist. The M-5 recommends sending different people because Kirk is "non-essential personnel". Doesn't the computer know that Kirk is the main character and gets to go everywhere?

Kirk wants to go down to a planet with Bones and a geologist. The M-5 recommends sending different people because Kirk is “non-essential personnel”. Doesn’t the computer know that Kirk is the main character and gets to go everywhere?

Kirk feels like he's being replaced

Kirk feels like he’s being replaced

Then the M-5 starts taking control and destroys an unmanned ship

Then the M-5 starts taking control and destroys an unmanned ship

Kirk jabs Dr. Daystrom with his finger

Kirk jabs Dr. Daystrom with his finger

The computer starts to protect itself and kills someone

The computer starts to protect itself and kills someone

Then the computer makes Enterprise fire on the federation ships that are part of the war game

Then the computer makes Enterprise fire on the federation ships that are part of the war game

Kirk convinces the computer that it's murdered people, and the computer believes the punishment for murder is death, so it kills itself

Kirk convinces the computer that it’s murdered people, and the computer believes the punishment for murder is death, so it kills itself

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