Where To Watch
Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Ultimate Computer"
In which Kirk faces obsolescence!
CBS Television Distribution
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Journey to the stars each weekday with a chronological quiz testing your knowledge of each episode in order. Let's see how long we can all keep the streak going!
It's up to you to keep track of your score, and we work on the honor system here in the United Federation of Planets. Missed a quiz? Just click here, and you'll have the chance to catch up!
This quiz is about Season 2, Episode 24: "The Ultimate Computer." See which details you recall, and which you might need a little refresher on. Good luck, have fun, and be sure to share your score (cumulative or otherwise) in the comment section below!
-
What's the name of the experimental tactical computer?
-
What's the name of the scientist keen on implementing this computer?
-
The computer excludes Kirk and McCoy from its landing party recommendation, as the pair are, apparently...
-
Spock insists the computer-controlled ship would be undesirable due to its lack of...
-
What's the midshipmen's term that Commodore Wesley calls Kirk?
-
What's the name of the automated ore freighter the Enterprise's sensors detect?
-
What's the name of the Ensign who is vaporized by the computer's power beam?
-
Which of these is NOT a starship involved in this episode's wargames?
-
An entire crew is killed aboard which ship?
-
Who says... "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis."?
Daily Star Trek Quiz: "The Ultimate Computer"
Your Result...
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque nec ante ipsum. Mauris viverra, urna et porta sagittis, lorem diam dapibus diam, et lacinia libero quam id risus.
Star Trek - Command Uniform
$19.95
Star Trek - Science Uniform
$19.95
Star Trek - Trek Crew
$19.95
Star Trek - Stunning
$19.95
Star Trek - Red Shirt Blues
$19.95
Star Trek - Space Prosper
$19.95
Star Trek - Spock Tote Bag
$24.00
Star Trek - Long Life
$19.95
Related
Nostalgia
63 Comments
Trivia. Mathematician Lawrence N. Wolfe wrote the original story for this episode. D. C. Fontana had to heavily rewrite it because Wolfe's version focused primarily upon Dr. Daydtrom & M-5 instead of the crew of the Enterprise.
The story was a social commentary on American job losses caused by increased mechanization during the 1960s. They should see it nowadays!
Barry Russo, who plays starship Commodore Wesley, also played Lt. Commander Giotto, head of security in "The Devil in the Dark."
James Doohan provided the voice for M-5.
Only episode to show Mr. Spock's library computer ejecting out a tape.
This is the second time that captain Kirk tells Dr. McCoy that he'd like to be on a long sea voyage. The first time was in "Balance of Terror."
Fourth time that Captain Kirk talks a computer to death. He also did the same thing in "The Return of the Archons" (Landru), "The Changeling" (Nomad), & the main computer in "I, Mudd."
The sensational remastered version of "The Ultimate Compute" creates some terrific new visuals. The space station is brand new instead of reused footage of Deep Space Station K-7 from "The Trouble with Tribbles." The ore freighter Woden is an original design instead of recycled footage of the Botany Bay from "Space Seed." The heavily destroyed Excalibur starship is not reused footage of the Constellation from "The Doomsday Machine."
The outer space battle between the Enterprise and the other starships is all new and vastly improved.
The story was a social commentary on American job losses caused by increased mechanization during the 1960s. They should see it nowadays!
Barry Russo, who plays starship Commodore Wesley, also played Lt. Commander Giotto, head of security in "The Devil in the Dark."
James Doohan provided the voice for M-5.
Only episode to show Mr. Spock's library computer ejecting out a tape.
This is the second time that captain Kirk tells Dr. McCoy that he'd like to be on a long sea voyage. The first time was in "Balance of Terror."
Fourth time that Captain Kirk talks a computer to death. He also did the same thing in "The Return of the Archons" (Landru), "The Changeling" (Nomad), & the main computer in "I, Mudd."
The sensational remastered version of "The Ultimate Compute" creates some terrific new visuals. The space station is brand new instead of reused footage of Deep Space Station K-7 from "The Trouble with Tribbles." The ore freighter Woden is an original design instead of recycled footage of the Botany Bay from "Space Seed." The heavily destroyed Excalibur starship is not reused footage of the Constellation from "The Doomsday Machine."
The outer space battle between the Enterprise and the other starships is all new and vastly improved.
If M5 had been programmed by Microsoft, it might have told Kirk "it looks like you're trying to start a war with the Klingons; would you like some help?"
7/10 mot great
6/10
9/10. Enterprise, Lexington, Yorktown, Hood, Potemkin all were names of World War 2 warships.
6/10. I'm embarrassed to post my score being an avid fan. I'm being dismissed from Star Fleet Academy. This was one of the best episodes.
6/10, good episode.
7/10
"Highly Illogical" 🖖🚀🪐🛸🖖
This is your big moment CaptainDunsel 🖖
"Highly Illogical" 🖖🚀🪐🛸🖖
This is your big moment CaptainDunsel 🖖
just don't call him 'Herbert'.
(L.O.L. 😅🤣😂) NEVER. 🖖🖖🖖
Missed the freighter and the poor guy that got zapped.
It's just a TV episode but all things being equal, supercomputer control not withstanding you would think that four Starships would have put up a little more of a fight once the Enterprise went berserk.
It's just a TV episode but all things being equal, supercomputer control not withstanding you would think that four Starships would have put up a little more of a fight once the Enterprise went berserk.
Well, the Enterprise did get the jump on them.
8 of 10 tonight
7/10
I also missed question #4, in addition to #10.
8/10. I keep getting the quotes wrong. Dr. Daystrom totally lost it but I did like his deep voice.
KJ, do you remember Kirk uttering that line about "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis." I don't and I've seen or listened to that episode 400 times. It may have been edited out by the time I started watching as a teenager, when the series first went into syndication.
It didn't ring a bell with me, but I don't always remember the quotes. There's someone on the internet that posts scripts from each show. I'll check it out. You could be right about it being edited out, though.
It's sounds like something Kirk may have said in the turbolift elevator scenes, or perhaps in Kirk's quarters when McCoy is consoling him after the "Captain Dunsel" comment.
I checked out the script and Kirk gives the quote when he and McCoy are discussing Daystrom's genius while they are in Kirk's quarters. This is after they have discovered that there is seemingly no way to turn the M-5 unit off.
We responded at the same time. I did find out when Kirk makes that quote. See my other response to you.
Ah yes. Then I was right. Though I still don't remember hearing it.
8/10. 508/530. I don't remember the line mentioned in question #10.
Neither do I. For some reason I don't remember half of the quotations they use.
10/10. Terrific episode. Guest star William Marshall is commanding as the brilliant but on the verge of insanity Dr. Daystrom.
The remastered version does a splendid job of replacing stock footage of the vessel Botany Bay from "Space Seed" for the Woden ore freighter with a original design. Just one of the fantastic benefits of having Trek remastered so wonderfully.
The remastered version does a splendid job of replacing stock footage of the vessel Botany Bay from "Space Seed" for the Woden ore freighter with a original design. Just one of the fantastic benefits of having Trek remastered so wonderfully.
Amen to that.
9 for 10
7/10 Guessing game.
7/10
Good episode.
Good episode.
9/10 I guessed 'underqualified' on #3. A couple of lucky guesses (#4 and #10).
8/10. Missed 6 & 8.