Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

In our last episode, we discussed what happens when AI goes horribly wrong by diving into

the 1970 cult classic Colossus the Forbin Project.

This week, on an episode we're calling Good Robot, Bad Robot, we look at the upside of AI in

science fiction, as seen through the eyes of the great bird of the galaxy, Gene Roddenberry.

We're your fan and writer-hosts. I'm BlueGal.

And I'm Drift Glass, and I realize that we're not going to talk about robots.

We're going to talk about Android and AI, but it just makes a better title, I think.

Good Robot, Bad Robot. And you can visit, I think, good robot, bad robot.

And you can visit us at Science Fiction University at our website,

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Today we're going to spoil a 50-year-old, not nearly as good as Drift Glass remembered it, movie.

Yes, we are.

About an android called Questore that laid the foundation for one of the most

successful and beloved characters in Star Trek. This movie called The Quester Tapes is available

on DVD from Amazon, but we do not recommend that you buy it. No. And we literally had to look everywhere until we found it on because it's not streaming

anywhere and now I know why.

But I thought this was a great movie and I was 14 years old.

You know, I thought, oh, man, this is so cool.

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