Captain’s log: stardate 4729.4 The Ultimate Computer. D.C Fontana writes the script from a story by Laurence N. Wolfe, and this episode first aired on 8 March, 1968. The U.S.S. Enterprise is stripped down a skeleton crew to test the new M5 supercomputer. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is a little anxious about the idea, because…
Tag: life and death
Dance of Death (2005) – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
It’s been a while since I checked in with FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast, Preston and Child’s modern, American answer to Doyle’s Holmes. Last time we checked in with him, he was left in a bit of dire straits as his friend Vincent D’Agosta fled for his life. The story picks up a couple of short…
The Mind Reels 