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THE STAR TREK FRANCHISE REWATCH PARTY #16 "Court Martial" (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by aeronmelon@lemmy.world to c/startrek@lemmy.world

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WARNING: This thread WILL contain unhidden spoilers for this entry. Because this re-watch is in a slightly-subjective chronological order and not in production order, please refrain from talking about the content of other episodes or movies in this thread. If you do, please put that content inside spoiler tags. Some people here may be watching Star Trek for the first time.

#16: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 20 "Court Martial"

Written by Don M. Mankiewicz and Steven W. Carabatsos, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardates 2947.3 through 2950.1 (August 2267)

"I spent my whole like training for decisions just like that one." - Captain James Kirk

The Enterprise docks at Starbase 11 for extensive repairs due to an encounter with an ion storm, and also due to the loss of a crewmember during that storm. Everything is a matter of procedure until Commodore Stone (Percy Rodriguez) notices a discrepancy between Captain Kirk's report and the computer logs. Kirk is faced with the horrible decision between being permanently grounded and losing command of the Enterprise or standing trial for the murder of the officer under his command.

Originally released: 2 February 1967

"Court Martial" on Memory Alpha

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Visual effects comparison of the original broadcast & the Remastered versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1LnO7AFd4

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do we participate? Just watch on our own time then use this post to talk about it? Sounds very fun. I'll look for this episode tomorrow.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Exactly. There’s a link in each post that shows you were you can stream or download the show legally.

“Welcome to the party, pal.”

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 0 points 5 months ago

I really loved the part where Spocks talks about how impossible it should be for him to beat a computer at Vulcan chess and it should at best be a draw. When we know how much effort it took to build Deep Blue to beat Kasparov.

In the end the perception of computer being infailible was used by a poisoned mind to try and frame Cpt. Kirk.

It's hard not to parralel this with big tech companies trying to convince everyone that their LLM based AIs are infailible when they can so easly be corrupted and mistaken.

I also want to mention a very recent movie called "Mercy" a trial of human vs machine. A poisoned man also tried to use the machine to frame a man he hated.