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Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer (1968)
Episode 24, Season 2
M5 compared to HAL9000
26 November 2016 - 4 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
Great exciting episode, presenting issues very much with us today. ANY of us in our professions in the 2010's could end up as "Capt. Dunsels." As in the best episodes, the action keeps coming and character expression is good. It's neat that Roddenberry, in line with his (very appropriate) dedication to racial equality, cast Dr. Daystrom as a very capable, intellectual (if seriously unbalanced) black scientist. Also very engaging to take the action inside ANOTHER Federation starship, that of Wesley. Now there's a key difference between the M5 System and HAL, the evil AI which appeared almost simultaneously: they both end up being homicidal, but only the M5 can vaporize anyone who tries to disconnect it.
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