Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 24 - "The Ultimate Computer"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Ultimate Computer," when control of the Enterprise is handed over to a computer, what is a starship captain like Kirk to do? Luckily he gets to do what he does best - disable that computer!

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering Nerist.com.
0:05.0	Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 53, The Ultimate Computer Do not adjust your pod thing. We have taken control to bring new mission log a
0:33.0	Rotenberry Star Trek podcast sitting in front of the computer, I'm
0:36.6	Ken Ray. And also sitting in front of a computer I'm John Champion.
0:40.9	This is the show that takes off the back plate and pulls out the
0:44.0	circuitry to find out what makes Star Trek work. What are the morals, meanings,
0:48.3	and messages contained in the software? We actually have not taken control.
0:54.5	Control has been taken by a computer.
0:56.6	You know, John, we rarely mention it.
0:59.1	But we are of course joined each week by an MC of sorts, the mission log computer.
1:04.0	Total M3 though.
1:06.0	Ooh, burn.
1:08.0	I mean it or her or whatever, no offense.
1:11.0	Oh, yeah.
1:12.0	No M5. This is not the ultimate computer. I'd be careful with that. She might turn off your life support in the middle of the night.
1:18.6	I don't think I use my life support in the middle of the night though so it should be fine.
1:24.8	Yeah, all right good.
1:26.3	It would be okay. The other thing that we do sometimes before we get into the show is sometimes we wait until later
1:30.9	I'm gonna surprise you today and and do it right at the top.
1:34.0	So if you think later how do I do this well just rewind and start again. You can get in touch
1:40.8	with us and we would love it if you did. On Facebook Skype and Twitter the handle is Mission Log Pod.
1:46.2	Mission Log Pod is the handle for all those places.
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