Tonights Episode: The Ultimate Computer


Kirk and a skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially
intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic unit, which could potentially
render them all redundant. Star fleet is very optimistic, but, Kirk fears -
even in a testing situation - removing humans from the equation is a very
dangerous position to be left in. A position of life or death.


Season II

Episode 24:

Title: The Ultimate Computer
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writers: D.C. Fontana, Laurence N. Wolfe
Star Trek Created By: Gene Roddenberry
Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan,
       Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, George Takei, William Marshall
Runtime: 50 min
Language: English
Air Date: 8 March 1968
IMDB Rating: 8.0


Note: I will be uploading this series by Production Date, not air date!

Production Order:  http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058233287


Storyline:

Captain Kirk replies to an urgent 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.
Commodore Bob Wesley arrives, and informs Kirk he's to be the 'fox in the hunt'
of simulated war games to be played. To put the so far only-rumoured-to-exist
M-5 Multitronic unit - through its paces. The M-5 computer is the latest invention
of the brilliant Dr. Richard Daystrom, creator of the Duotronic computer systems,
which run the Enterprise. Daystrom is confidant his unit can not only take control
of the starship, but do a better job than humans can. At first, the Enterprise 
under M-5's control easily defeats two other starships, but, begins to act 
independently of its human masters, Daystrom has no interest in disconnecting the 
M-5 and treats it more like an errant child than a machine. For Kirk and the few 
crew members still aboard, it becomes a matter of life and death when Starfleet 
Command orders the Enterprise destroyed.


General:

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Format : Matroska
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Duration : 50min 30sec
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Encoded date : UTC 2016-07-04T17:29:18Z
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Video:

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