Years before Data was even a twinkle in Gene Roddenberry’s eye, Star Trek: The Original Series explored just how dangerous artificial intelligence could be. In “The Ultimate Computer,” the Enterprise is outfitted with the M-5 Multitronic System to automate all ship functions and generally remove the need for humans (or Vulcans, for that matter) to keep the ship running.
Any sci-fi fan can guess what happens next: the AI goes rogue, takes over the ship, and uses the Enterprise to kill more than an entire ship’s worth of Starfleet personnel in other vessels before Kirk manages to talk the M-5 into shutting itself down.
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