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"The Ultimate Computer" is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D.C. Fontana (based on a story by Laurence N. Wolfe) and directed by John Meredyth Lucas, it was first broadcast on March 8, 1968.
Close-up of a PADD, as seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The LCARS interface is often seen used on a PADD (Personal Access Display Device), a hand-held computer. [3]At seven-inch (180 mm), similarly sized modern tablet computers such as the Nexus 7, Amazon Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook, and iPad Mini have been compared with the PADD.
Star Trek is the code name that was given to a secret prototype project, running a port of Macintosh System 7 and its applications on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers. The project, starting in February 1992, [ 1 ] was conceived in collaboration between Apple Computer , who provided the majority of engineers, and Novell , who at the time ...
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...
Noonien Soong (Star Trek: The Next Generation) – inventor of the positronic brain, which makes intelligent androids possible; Dr. Tolian Soran (Star Trek Generations) – El-Aurian scientist desperate to return to the Nexus; Mr. Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series) – science officer and second-in-command of the Enterprise
All told — including his work on “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Picard” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” — Frakes has worked on 221 episodes of ...
Walter Matthew Jefferies [1] (August 12, 1921 – July 21, 2003) [2] [3] was an American aviation and mechanical artist, set designer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the original Star Trek television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original Starship Enterprise, and the bridge and sick bay.
The foundation honoring "Star Trek's" creator hopes to encourage development of AI that benefits humanity. (CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images) To boldly go where no man has gone before.