The Ultimate Computer

[mrbrianmccarthy]

The reason the original Star Trek is still the best is because of the interaction between the characters.Dr McCoy,Spock,Captain Kirk,Chekov,Sulu---The newer Star Trek shows characters are far more bland,and much less interesting. Also,the music on the old Star Trek was far better.More dramatic,and it matched the action better.And the stories were better As for this episode,what a great concept!! Computer vs man. How very relevant for the times we live in today.

[ScarfDogg]

Bones is always so angry. :T

[Demithegoddess]

I don't know who that doctor was more in danger of. Kirk or Spock. If you watch Spock, he gets progressively more pissed off through the episode every time someone tells Kirk he's no longer needed and obsolete. I think that Vulcan was getting ready to tear that mans throat out!

[KendrickSF]

Thank you CBS for making this and other episodes of ST:TOS available on YouTube without the new CGI effects!

[LostWolf76]

@KendrickSF Thank You.....who needs the new CGI nonsense? It is what it is....don't mess with it.

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@LostWolf76 I've noticed that as the special effects have gotten better that the stories have suffered.Good CGI effects are no replacement for a good story. A lot of people put down the acting ability of the 1st Star Trek cast,but I think that they created far more interesting characters than any of the actors in the newer versions.

[3XDo0]

Spoke's little speech at 19:06 was so love :)

[ArmedWithAComputer]

Poor Jim...

[slidomix69]

The humor at the end seems a little callus and inappropriate considering all those who just died minutes prior. This happened in several episodes though it is impossible to change the tone of the show gradually in a 40 min time constraint.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

I want one of those for my computer at 6:30!

[Tony63909]

Very disappointing ending. How did Kirk convince M-5 that it's defending itself was actually murder. M-5 can't tell the difference?

[dwayne0t]

Haha Marshall is so tall, they had to lay him diagonally on the sickbay bed.

[jnwestray78]

@webcashgiver How true. However, we are not using our computers to explore the stars, our we?

[clintonearlwalker]

@jnwestray78 Not using our computers to explore the stars?? Type in "Green Bank Telescope", I've been there.

[jnwestray78]

@clintonearlwalker I was offering some poor social commentary. Of course computers our used for the exploration of space, but for the most part, we use our desktops (with 10,000 times the power of the M5) to watch porn, play video games, and watch re-runs of trek or other tv shows. I think you can get where I am gonig with this :)

[clintonearlwalker]

@jnwestray78 Star Trek is science fiction from the 60's, the model of the Enterprise used in the series is in the Smithsonian I've seen it. I doubt your desk top could do what was represented by the M-5 in this episode, it's amazing how closely the Star Trek computer monitors resemble the monitor I'm currently using. I knew a guy with a large TI calculator in the 60's, it was like $75, it could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Communicators also resemble current phones, unlike 1960's.

[sarabear830]

i ate all of the commercials

[Kittiesrway2cute]

I bet the M stands for mistake!! But this episode is so true we count technology for everything these days!! You gotta love it

[GroovieBuff]

47:39

Aw...he's sleeping like a baby.

[DutchKid1987]

Spock's last line was the best. "It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, Doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining."

[3link1]

Want to know why the computer failed. The doctor spilled grape juice on it as he was installing it onto the enterprise.

[U3X6785]

A machine?!? .........Are you mad? What will I do?!?

This was in the late 60s. Funny if the processor was listed as 20 mhz.

[carch117]

I love the part at 42:15 "jim he's on the edge of a nervous breakdown if not insanity!"

So what does kirk say to diffuse the situation? "The M5 must be distroyed!" Yeah that aught to calm him down.

[cdost]

In my top 5 episodes for sure. The second season was Star Trek at its best. Still no episode beats my Favorite "The Doomsday Machine".

[caitlinjane92]

Dr. McCoy- "Please Spock, do me a favor, and DON'T say it's 'facinating.'"

Spock- "No. But it is... interesting."

Dr. McCoy- *eye roll*

LOL!

[CPLRedmond]

If the Enterprise would have been operated on Mac OSX, there would never be a problem and everything would run smoothly and efficiently.

[crazycoolone]

William Marshall was such a great actor! Love his work here.

[jdskinny212]

This show could be ridiculously puritanical at times.

"Murder is against the law of man...and God!"

[greendayfan234]

I'm a M-5 Computer, and I'm a PC...

[Yoshi741852]

i love the kirk/spock moment in this

[Roadracer987654321]

I have this one playing on my dvd player right now. This episode was near flawless. Thank the Gods they re-did the freighter the Enterprise encounters with a different ship. I own the whole original series on dvd box set and thoe Original Special Effx. were more than outdated.

Commodore Bob Wesley of the USS Lexington had to be a Top Officer in the Fleet to command an Entire Task Force. Wesley had to serve on a sister ship of the Enterprise earlier on with a younger Captain Christopher Pike.

[aeternamente13]

Kirk really has a talent for convincing supercomputers to kill themselves.

[caitlinjane92]

@aeternamente13 That's because he knows that machines don't have as much intelligence or a sense of living as human beings do, which is something that people these days should think real hard about before deciding to go to get a @$#&ing 3D TV or Iphone.

[kobyashi45]

3rd Favorite after " Balance of Terror " and " Doomsday Machine ".........This one is Mr. Honny's Favorite :-)

[Roadracer987654321]

I could do for Star Trek over the Internet what Bjo Trimble did for Star Trek using her Letter Campaign in 1968.

This episode was good. We see Captain Kirk,Commander Spock, Commander Mc'coy, Commander Scott and Commodore Wesley all pushed to the limit of their abilities and to the Limits of their duty and personal conscousness. We see here that the Enterprise IS Captain Kirk. Take away Loyalty and the Human Factor and you have NOTHING ! Without Honor and Loyalty we all have nothing at all.

[bucinaus]

It's the new Dell Dimension controlling this ship!

[ghost2171]

42:00 McCoy tells Kirk that Daystrom is on the edge of a nervous breakdown if not insanity. So naturally the first thing Kirk does is ease tensions by telling Daystrom that his life's work must be destroyed. LOL 

[ghost2171]

Never tire of the back and fourth between Spock & McCoy :)

[ItsMrFloyd]

The M5 killing the ensign is one of the best deaths in trek! Instant disintegration by M5's power coupling beam. Better than any red shirt death I can think of.

[Krustylu1]

why won't this video play?

[Watcher3223]

20:45

When M-5 heard what it meant when Captain Kirk was called Captain Dunsel, he was laughing in his own way.

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.

Stupid computer.

[jawharp1992]

"That thing's turning off systems all over the ship!"

It's just turning off the lights when there's nobody in the room...

[jawharp1992]

@jawharp1992 and as soon as the commercial ends, the doctor explains what I just said. *Picard facepalm*

[11111111jws]

@jawharp1992 huh?

[tenkgent]

one of the best. 'nuff said!

[HubertHoratio]

This episode is basically 2001: a space odyssey except a hundred times less cool and compelling

[BondFreek]

@HubertHoratio. Not even. Hal went crazy yes but not because he was a monster. 2001 was about the monolith. Hal was just the side story.

[11111111jws]

@BondFreek was he...really?

[BlueMoonz55]

@HubertHoratio ... It was made in the late sixties.... You do the math.

[KHooves]

so was Gene Rodenberry reading Arthur C. Clarke?

[Mercutioswrath]

Yes actually. Roddenberry was known to have credited Clarke with inspiring him to work on Star Trek. Clarke and Roddenberry were also known to be friends.

[ngobleus]

So Gary (Mitchell) Lockwood is not the only link between original Star Trek and 2001?

[timberwolf84]

Sounds like it.

[Sutterjack]

Runs Windows Vista -- Best Vulcan nerve pinch in the whole series!

[AFriendOfJesus1]

I just love Mr. Spock's name...it's awesame. :D

[tesformes]

I love how Kirk was so incredibly chipper at the end of the episode, joking about making a new M5 like he had forgotten that several hundred people had just died about an hour before.

[tabbilovin]

not to be a Debbie downer, but wouldn't this future be used to technological progress and it's constant development- a byproduct of that the loss of jobs to machine.

and I agree- Captain Kirk using reverse psychology gets old pretty quick.

Loves the Star Trek tho- Mr. Spock ftw! ^_^

[BondFreek]

Have you gotten use to jobs being replaced by newer and better automation? You should have automation has been happening since the 1800's, But you have not. Same thing.

[TheXtech]

This scenario of Captain Kirk using reverse psychology with machines is redundant, as seen on "The Changeling" (against NOMAD); "The Return of the Archons" (against Landru); & "That Which Survives" (against a holographic computer).

[TheXtech]

Commodore Wesley is the same red shirt Commander for the security team from the episode "The Devil in the Dark".

[HerrMac]

"Dude says all you have to do is sit back and let the machine do the work like it's a good thing. Well guess what, commodore, it ain't bitch!" (Inside Kirk's head)

[cowmoomoo99]

This story line still applies today, 40 years later. Thats for-site !!!

[arelimoon29]

I love this episode. :D The minor Kirk-Spock interaction was still the highlight of this episode. And Bones being kickass was another highlight.

[piscean60]

@14:20- "non-essential personnel"?

I beg your pardon?

You're talking to James T. Kirk mister!!!

Have some respect!!!!!

[Demithegoddess]

40:00 and this is where his cheese officially slips off his cracker.

[Demithegoddess]

For a highly disciplined Vulcan whose in control of his emotions, you can certainly see him get progressively pissed off through this episode every single time people start insulting and putting Kirk down.

[michu070]

obviously the human side coming through

[iamhewolf]

@Demithegoddess

Good call. I never noticed that before.

[Sherlockrulez]

@Demithegoddess That is an inconsistant quality, indeed. Though it is wise to remember that he is half human, and Kirk is his best friend. Spock always has had an inner grapple with his emotional control.

[capkingy]

This is cool. Now if we could get a digital copy of this for our ipod touch or pc when we buy the blue-ray hd version.

[pillsburydoughboy47]

here's the million dollar question; how often can you watch a Star Trek episode before it finally gets boring?

[TearJerker2011]

There's no such thing as a boring episode of Star Trek. Never a dull moment.

Trekkie forever!

[StewieSwan]

Yes there is.

The Mark of Gideon

The Tholian Web

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@TearJerker2011 Did you notice that the voice of the computer was Scotties?? Hahahah---love the old Star Trek.

[cokefan3]

more than 40 years

[pillsburydoughboy47]

It was a serious question; sometimes I wonder if there is a trekie out there, who knows ALL of the series, line by line, for every single episode.

[crazycoolone]

of course...plenty

[saitheninjedi]

indeed...

[pinklisa]

@pillsburydoughboy47 That will never happen for most of us.

[pillsburydoughboy47]

alright alright, alright, I get it; nobody talks about the actual content of the episodes because likely most of these commentators have seen this hundreds of times.

[nocrusadesplease]

Kirk has a red alert in his motor cortex. 8:01

[cylinder4ify]

Try using your chase card to buy a one ticket to the resurrection.

[moshfists]

They took our job!!!

Dey tuck urrr duurrb!!!

[neilzep]

reminds me of 2001 Space odessey and Hal...the conflict between man and machine.

[crazycoolone]

Actually, it's the other way around.

This episode came out in 1967.

Space Odyssey from Stanley Kubrick was released in 1968.

[BondFreek]

The Book 2001 a Space Odyssey was writen in the early 60's. Before this episode was made. But the story does not come from 2001 aSpace Odyssey, it comes from the book Frankenstine.

[Valkes]

Frankenstein*

[bearmassaro]

23:22 It's the Botany Bay!

[carch117]

@bearmassaro Botany bay?... Botany bay? O NO! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!

[MsOliviaGarden]

Dr. McCoy: Did you see the love light in Spock's eyes? The right computer finally came along.

Oh, Dr. McCoy, you are the best!

[polysmart]

The way things are going, seems very unlikely in the future any one man could fully understand, much less conceive and design a computer (or a CPU for that matter).

This being Star Trek, however, makes it possible for one superhuman to do everything. We need more people like that. :)

[arelimoon29]

There are thousands of people who can build a computer from scratch. We are also closer to having learning and all powerful computers like in this episode thanks to those people who can make a computer like that. To connote that humanity is slowly becoming idiots is only because creativity and ingenuity has been limited by the controlling government and extremely rich private sector of the world.

[EnterprisePhantom]

"Practical, Captain? Perhaps; but not desriable. Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captian, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man and nothing may replace it or him."

--Spock

Did I misinterpret this conversation or did Spock just profess his unswerving love for our dear Captain? Just when Kirk thinks that Spock has left him for the computer he turns around and assures Kirk that he could not desire anyone else.

[arelimoon29]

:D It is a tie back to McCoy's comment about how Spock may have found his true love in the M5 computer. Kirk did seem a bit put off after McCoy said that (and only half of that was from the idea of M5 running his ship)

These writers...They don't think we notice. :D And Nimoy's delivery was excellent. I really wanted Kirk to just beam at him with that line, but he was still miffed that his ship is being ran by a computer.

[clusterfocked]

A special thanks to Care-Free Maxi-Pads for sponsoring this!!!! It has wings!!!!

[clusterfocked]

It's almost as if Bill Gates wrote this episode himself!!!! HMMMM...... Well he was 12 years old at the time and it kinda reminds me of dealing with Windows Millenium......

[bealio721]

42:40 - The most memorable reaction to the Vulcan neck pinch in the entire series.

I'm loving it!

[TiffKing]

the guy who plays the scientist was also in Blacula, he played a black vampire in this 60s or 70s movie

[earp1673]

One thing...

The "M" part of the M5 stands for Microsoft...

*cough*

Shouldn't be a problem..

[polysmart]

Yea, the duotronics (core 2 duos) seem to be handling their duties just fine.

[fullmetalgirl7]

"Do me a favor Spock. Don't say its fascinating." "...No... but it is interesting." Hah, I love Spock and McCoy interaction!

X3

[TheCityISAtWar111]

haha me too, it's probably the best part of the episodes.

[tiemedown]

spocks sidelong glance was oddly sexual yumyum

[twhis]

so this utopian star trek future has the death penalty? really?

[edybeast]

Damn Windows Vista...

[emiwright]

21:45 McCoy is wearing a pinky ring ")

[DogPatch1149]

Commercials? What commercials? Firefox + Adblock Plus (subscribe to EasyList) = no commercials.

[finnboy1967]

Why would they put an eyelash commercial on a star trek episode????????????

[nazarethwoodshop]

What other show than Star Trek can allow 65 people dead and still warp out of the system with a laugh???

[EmperorJapan]

Death isn't sad...the sad thing is nobody really lives. But the point is death isn't sad.

[finnboy1967]

Very true!!!

[theurge14]

@nazarethwoodshop

I suppose in 1960s era television you had to have a happy ending no matter what.

[christimacc]

LOL, nowadays, McCoys protestation from 24:52 - 25:17 would be considered racist by some.

[EyeOnTheTV]

huh? that's harmless. pls explain

[christimacc]

McCoy is a white man lambasting a black man. Some people are so faux sensitive that they consider that racist.

[EyeOnTheTV]

..... like yourself for pointing it out?

[christimacc]

Way to miss the point! My point is that the PC movement has gotten so out of control that some people would find McCoy's tirade offensive. *sigh* Shame that I have to spell that out to someone as intelligent as you.

[EyeOnTheTV]

Yeah I understood that, and pointed out that you are one of those people. Are you unfamiliar with sarcasm?

[christimacc]

Only well-used and well-timed sarcasm. Keep using it though, and one day you, too, can achieve greatness in this area.

[shaochiavang]

hahaha, how chu catch that..hahaha

[christimacc]

22:10 - 22:40 is a beautiful moment.

[christimacc]

I'm constantly amazed at the camera work this show employed. The sweep and truck shots in this episode were done using those mammoth cameras that cost a fortune, lacked good maneuverability and were a bear to operate. Nowadays they can just plop a handheld on the shoulder and off they go.

[christimacc]

The verbal jabs McCoy and Spock threw at each other in this episode were great.

[jonnham]

does the captians name keep changing. Sometimes it's James then it's Jim

[InsideLosAngeles]

just nicknames, like bones and McCoy.

[puloman1]

Captain kirk almost got outsourced

[ktenn1]

apparently red shirts can be resurrected, the guy who got zapped, reappears as the transporter tech in "the tholian web" lol

[DoctorWhoisit]

Yeah pretty sure they gotta factory somewhere in starfleet that just pumps em out!

[Tayohni]

I really wish the Youtube people would fix that ridiculous volume of the commercial compared to the show. It's absolutely aggravating!

[esoteric714]

If you're running Firefox, DL addbock plus, it eliminates those adds.

[wulvireen]

oops.., clothes :)

[cygnustsp]

LOL the dentist's name is Fang

[wulvireen]

yeah, that's hilarious! the best thing about the commercials. besides the fact that brook is too busy exercising and trying on close to choose her own tooth paste

[BoxOmorons]

and spock rushes to his side :)

[qrs11]

With everything going on in this show, I hate seeing that colgate ad so many times

[YuyuPrincess411]

SPOILER

Geez, that's at least the third computer Kirk's talked into committing suicide! Not to mention all those others he just blasted through... he doesn't have very good experiences with computers does he? ^^'

[YuyuPrincess411]

26:46 - Well, there goes the episode's redshirt. And it wasn't even funny... D=

[sturnfield7783]

This idea has been overused from Buck Rodgers to Battlestar Galatica. Manual Controls are used for backup of the automatics.

[kalimaganeshshivan]

Don't forget that old science fiction TV show Space 1999 which was trying to gain popularity from the success of the Star Trek series. However on that show they had to keep telling the doors to open and close.

[suncityheat]

im going to break her teeth.

[1220amsoulradio]

I agree with the comment s. Star Trek was ahead of its time in terms of demonstrating all peoples of all races and creeds were cast as leaders in any endeavor. We can learn from that vision. The next step is to take the vision to the corporate world.

[prreynolds]

Maybe the next step should be to get people to play nice on this website.

[magicianspirit]

That Dunsel, the computer expert, was a real total jerk. Notice how unconcerned he was that his computer had just killed 100 people, but when it was pointed out that his precious computer would also be destroyed, only then he was concerned!

[99rei99]

haha, they all have a good laugh at the end, meanwhile there are like what, over 100 people dead as a result of what happened? Classic star trek attitude, and I love it

[Iluthra]

Watch Spock as he decides he has to have a word with the captain, @ 9:58. He purses his lips, as if he's thinking, No choice, gotta do this. I think its cute.

[commandox20]

Thank God M5 didnt have access to the Photon Torpedos. The casualities would have been a bit heavier methinks.

[MCdogma77]

wow, how very relevant....!

[spectre111]

"The trouble with computers is that they are very sophisticated idiots. They do exactly what you tell them to do in the quickest most efficient means available, nothing more and nothing less"

Tom Baker; Doctor Who(Robot)

[Iluthra]

Why would Commodor Wesley call Kirk Captain Dunsel. Didn't he realize his job would be just as replaceable? Mean, very mean.

[commandox20]

I very much doubt Wesley was taking a jab at Kirk. It seemed more like send off to all captains at that point.

[dodgerdodgerbubodger]

"'Dunsel'? Who the blazes is 'Dunsel'?"

[kdraper2007]

it was in bitterness, wesley knew that the computer would replace him as well. it was a statement of disgust.

[Iluthra]

I love Spock's little encouragement speech to Kirk, about loyalty.

[oxymomo]

I know. It brings a little tear to the eye.

[haako40]

The King of Cartoons!

[FoilFaerie]

really, i knew i recognized that dude. i used to watch pee wee's playhouse all the time.

[CinciVulcan]

Spock is such a smart ass this episode...

Dr.: Please don't say its fascinating...

Spock: No but its interesting...

CLASSIC!!

[morgan5154]

his line at the end that made Kirk laugh his head off was funny too

[CinciVulcan]

7:40 LOL

[zooky99point1]

"pursuing a wild goose"

[jdhoffman1221]

M5 beat out Shatner for the Emmy on best actor on this episode.

[DedyPhlincke]

So did Scotty's socket wrench...

[mymindsincree]

4:50 lol

[InfectedxXxFlower]

damn ads.

[BrianMChampion]

M5 was based on Windows 2000. They should have known.

[yougotmefriend]

25:34 "I'm afraid I can't let you do that Kirk"

[Fronator]

"Did you see the right computer in Spocks eyes? The right computer finally came along."

McCoy is my favorite character :)

[thepealord]

Bones: "Please, Spock, do me a favour and don't say it's fascinating."

Spock: "No... but it is interesting."

Bones: *epiceyeroll*

lol

[SteveDurnin]

Somewhat overrated episode. The ending was too light-hearted considering all the people killed.