Re: Star Trek Teaser Trailer Now Up On The Internets

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
 > In "The Ultimate Computer," the M-5 had taken control of the ship.  But

> it wasn't a normal part of the ship's systems.
> 
> In "I, Mudd," the android Norman had taken over the Auxiliary Control 
> Room and fed the course corrections into the ship from there.  But 
> Auxiliary Control is designed for manual navigation anyway (in case the 
> bridge is damaged).

I think what these episodes and "Menagerie" tell us that in
TOS' time the technology to automate the operation of a
starship exists and is not considered anything particularly
exotic, but is regarded as undesirable except in cases of
emergency because nobody wants to live or work in an
automated environment.

GeneK