You mean "printers." Printers will self destruct for no discernable reason all the time. Computers are at least programmed to give you a message telling you why they're self-destructing nowadays.

@@WobblesandBean True but in this day and age we think of most computers as disposable and most technology is made that way to begin with. They actually build flaws into our technology so that you have to keep buying more, like how he lightbulb companies would be out of business if they made bulbs that lasted 100 years. The same principal applies here with computers, if they wanted they probably could build one to last practically forever. It's called "controlled obsolescence" I believe.

You must be running Windows.

@@WobblesandBean Well, I once programmed a network of computers to monitor their own logs, look fir known problems and email out to an administrators mail groups as to which computer needed what component replaced within the next week and the partnumber to order. Five years later, I spoke with former co-workers and they said that since the merger with another company, the only computers that worked well were mine and only because the computers themselves would email them with exactly what needed to be done. A lot of having the system be as autonomous as possible is the effort you put into automating it. However the idea of a central computer running everything was from the common belief during the 60's perpetrated by IBM that computers would become so powerful that only four would be needed for the entire world. They never considered that a wireless handheld phone in everyone's pocket would have more computing power than they ever imagined possible and that despite the computers being powerful, programmers would still be unable to understand or replicate intelligence. M-5 is interesting in that it is the Daystrom's very own brain engrams that are replicated in the computer and hence was flawed because the man was flawed as well as emotionally unsuitable to command a starship. Now today we still don't understand intelligence but we've been able to simulate the actions of neurons and synapses and have actually simulated portions of the human brain such as the visual cortex with surprising results. A terribly inefficient way of having a digital intelligence. A Japanese supercomputer in 2012 took 40 minutes to simulate 1 second of a visual cortex's function but this means that as computers become more powerful, they will be able to simulate a real human brain in real time neuron by neuron (estimates are that this would be possible by 2029) so we have a path to an artificial intelligence that does not require first understanding intelligence. M-5 is a lot more predictive than most people realize.

@@BioGoji-zm5ph Well, they used to give you a reason, nowadays they just pop up a message with a big frowny face and a "Oops, something went wrong" without any additional details whatsoever.

Unfortunately the Borg are impervious to Kirk's methods because they would only say "Logic is irrelevant" "Principles are irrelevant" "Resistance is futile" it takes inside knowledge of their ships functioning that Picard gained as Locutus to defeat them.

@@ArgonTheAware That's true. Just ask everyone who took part in Wolf 359. Well, ask the survivors, anyway.

During this video, I remembered that episode in TNG where they were going to use some paradoxical geometrical construct as a type of virus to disable the Borg. Kirk could have just asked them if 0.9999... equals 1, humanity saved.

All Kirk had to do was make love to the Borg Queen. "Please teach me, what is a 'kiss' ? ".

STD Capt Pike should have called Kirk over from whatever he was doing.

I came to the comments to say something like this. With smoke coming out of dude's ears and everything. Classic Logic Bomb

@@dwc1964 I also was looking for this one, Kirk gets an assist from Mudd and the rest of the crew, but there's no doubt he's the QB of the android melting team.

As well, does a bit of it in 'What are little girls made of?' getting Ruk to turn on Korby.

@@WilliamPitcher Is that the one he reminds the ancient robot how to rebel against his maker? Kirk hooking up with some mechanical strange?

And Raina from "Requiem for Methuselah" didn't fare that well either. Though Norman just wound up with a 'headache'.

Not to mention the Butlerian Jihad from the Dune universe. Best. Leo.

I was just about to write that, Keepin Me Up Podcast!

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of back when the Purge trailers first showed up.

You know Keepin Me Up podcast, I wondered the same thing, but I didn't catch it until seeing this video.

;D*

It's a shock Kirk never caused the Enterprise the accidentally self-destruct by logic bombing the computer.

I think data is too advanced to be broken by that. Too human.

*high five

@@maximilliancunningham6091 they make all the difference

@@maximilliancunningham6091 Or green blood.

HEHE....

Wesley is Gene's middle name.

(Damn, I lost the Steve-Shives-Heart by editing a spelling mistake. *cry*)

Watch compilation videos of different Trek scenes out of context, and the scenes from I, Mudd are usually the funniest. Especially when everyone is "shooting" Scotty with their "hand guns."

Not gonna lie, the whole "Everything he says is a lie"/"I am telling a lie right now" bit blew my little nine-year-old mind.

I forgot I, Mudd but I did get For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky and Spock's Brain

If computers arent to be trusted and should only serve man, not over man. Does that mean the bigoted first officer on the Sutherland was right in not trusting Data as a leader?

Excellent point.

IRONICALLY real-life authority figures also often self-destruct when questioned.

@@JosephDavies Kirk clobbered Beardy Spock with a logic bomb in the Mirror episode. Fortunately Spock didn't kill himself.

kill-jitsu 😂

Pretend I'm a Democrat Computer who thinks Communism is the only way to freedom, equity, and equality.

Clearly, Steve hasn't seen the episode Kirk's Jawline where he does exactly that.

I think kirk has a magic tongue that his unexplained powers, why else does he get any women. Ad the computers, are a side effect.

I think there's a reason we don't see the like/dislike ratio ^^'

I like this "getting interrupted while explaining things in too much detail, because I'm not explaining it well" trope far too much.

I kind of want to see Kirk biting a computer now, like some kind of cartoon caveman.

nice 👍

Or the illogical slapstick fest that shut down the androids in "I, Mudd"

@@HappiestGnome they made them all pay for private health care >.>

He certainly chews the scenery a lot.

Contraband Romulan ale addicts & criminals!

And in I,Mudd too, although that was a team effort to kill a computer with sheer What-The-F*ckery

@@weldonwin That always seemed weird to me that Norman managed to slip onto a starship and live even for a short time. One look at an old Earth sitcom and he'd explode.

What Is Little Girls Made Of has more Kirk vs. the computer when he convinces Ruk to betray Korby by reminding him of the logic that made the original androids of the planet rebel originally (against the Old Ones), this causes Ruk to attack Korby and so Korby destroys Ruk. So Kirk 2 androids zero (well they actually killed some read shirts but they don't count). Also, Kirk defeats the android Andrea "with his mouth" by kissing her and it so confuses her that she then kills the android replicant of Kirk who refuses to kiss her and then she tries to confess her love for Korby and that is part of his suicide (so an assist there also). Finally an honorable mention in the same episode Kirk tips Spock off to the replicant Kirk by making it utter racist slurs against Spock at the drop of a hat. Perhaps Kirk learned how to do this by reading about the 2016 incident where Microsoft made a chatbot that learned a whole bunch of slurs. While Kirk does not quite talk the computer to death the way he does in later episodes, but clearly he was honing his computer cracking skills on those murderous androids.

Always worth a try.

The only time it failed him.

And wonderful! TOS is loaded with K/S.

They didn't assassinate it though. They just found it a friend. It was a happy ending for Nomad (err Vger).

BRAIN AND BRAIN, WHAT IS BRAIN?!

Yeah we all try to forget Spocks Brain.

For The World Is Hollow... did involve the Yonadan Oracle, but Kirk didn't logic-loop it to death (which is what this video is all about). That one involved Kirk and Spock reading the "Book of the People" - basically the Oracle's instructions - and fixing the problem manually.

I dont think John Henry being black and exploitable had anything to do with the story, Henry is a free man and a laborer not a slave, such laborers were by far not restricted to blacks or minorities. Though minorities in te form of blacks Chinese and Irish did make up a notable portion of the workforce. You also misunderstood the lesson, the point wasn't that John Henry, or black men, or man in general are te superior machine. Henry did win, but he died. He's also understood to be a far better than average man, so ultimately he died for no real gain as the machine was still able to work and likely no other man could do as much as he had done. It was a melancholy ending and a pyrrhic victory that ushered in the inevitable age of machines.

@@DrewLSsix You can't separate his race from his exploitation in that particular historical context. You can't separate his exploitation from a proper interpretation of the folklore. The problem is more complicated than "replacing a man with a machine takes some nebulous something (sense of purpose) from a man." It's that, ideally, replacing a man with a machine *should* result in not having to do back-breaking labor in order to be allowed to eat, drink, and have shelter. But, instead, because our capitalism functions entirely on exploitation, the man, now out of a job, can't afford to survive, because the profit of replacing his labor with that of a machine is not shared with society, but funneled to the owning class. As a black man, even free, John Henry would have been *most* subject to this outcome, more than laborers of other races. Those our society considers least equal are the first to go, and are not offered jobs in middle management doing nothing productive after the fact, but are left with no support at all. John Henry dying in order to win the contest means he was fighting to the very end to be allowed his very survival within capitalism. It wasn't some pursuit of purpose or fulfillment. It was resistance against extermination.

Kirk vs human sized and physical Cortana.

Oh, and now I see it’s not even a Trek Actually video. Well, it should be. Norman, coordinate!

"The Face of a genius!" Yep, a memorable episode considering I haven't seen it for over 40 years.

I've heard, but never looked into it, that the creators of _The Purge_ franchise were inspired by "The Return of the Archons."