"[Unfortunately] there is nothing currently to replace the
ship's surgeon."
--Spock
"[If they could, they] wouldn't have to. I'd resign."
--McCoy
"There are certain things men must do to [remain] men."
--Kirk
"Only a fool would stand in the way of progress."
--Kirk
"You have my psychological profile. Am I afraid of [losing control]?"
--Kirk
"Why don't you ask James T. Kirk. He's a pretty honest guy."
--McCoy
"What are you doing here Bones?"
--Kirk
"Computers make [efficient and practical] servants, but I do not wish to
serve under them.
--Spock
"This isn't chicken soup. I make a Finibal's Folly [that's known from
here to ___]"
--McCoy
"Do you know the one: 'All I ask is a tall ship...'"
--Kirk
"[It's] not acting logically."
--Spock
"Do me a favor [Spock, and] don't say it's fascinating."
--McCoy
"No, but it is interesting."
--Spock
"I've been updating that course for hours."
--Sulu
"Pursuing a wild goose."
--Spock
"You are great; I am great."
--Daystrom (to M5)
"Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God."
--M5
"Daystrom felt that such an act was an offense against the laws of God
and man, and the computer that carried his engrams also believed it."
--Kirk
"Compassion? That's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the
one thing that keeps men ahead of them. Care to debate that, Spock?"
--McCoy
"No, doctor, I simply maintain that computers are more
efficient than human beings, not better."
--Spock
"It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a
computer, doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be
most entertaining."
--Spock
PLOT
Star Fleet Command puts the Enterprise under total control of the m5
multitronic unit, a new computer that can do everything the entire crew can
do, and much faster. (Seeing that this obvious improvement would obviate
the need for any actors, Roddenberry decided to make believe that computers
err more often than humans.)
Kirk is called "Captain Dunsel" by Admiral Wesley (quite out of character
for high officials). A dunsel is a useless piece of machinery.
M5 can run the ship with a crew of 20.
M5 refuses to relinquish control, and starts firing on any ship, manned or
unmanned, friend or foe. M5's creator (Richard Daystrom, who has fallen
from the spotlight of his bright, intelligent youth) also refuses to have
m5 relinquish control.
FACTS
Commodore Enright.
Commodore Bob Wesley.
Wargames.
Federation ships USS Excalibur, USS Lexington, USS Potempkin and an ore
ship.
Spock holds an A7 [______] computer [rating], which is why he knows so
much about ___.
One Enterprise crew dead.
Daystrom made the duotronic breakthrough when he was [25].
Full phasers on an unshielded ship only shakes it a little?
Kirk talks M5 into killing itself.
OPINIONS
How stupid are all these high-ranking Federation officers?