How about, Kirk saving the day by outsmarting a super computer, causing it to self-destruct in self-loathing and unreconcilable programming loops? He did that with M5 ("How will you atone for the sin of murder"..."This computer must die..."), Nomad ("Nomad, you've made three errors, you are flawed. Execute your prime directive". "Boom!") and Landru ("You are not protecting the Body!".... "Landru! Help me! Boom!") -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> During our discussion about over the top with bad plot block busters, we > started talking about over the worse saves in speculative fiction > movies. So far two were raised. They are: > > 1. "Data putting the freakin' Borg *to sleep* to save the day in Star > Trek Next Generation > > 2. How Jeff Goldblum was able to with "his Mac laptop and a few hours of > virus coding couldn't topple the computer system of a technologically > superior society of interstellar conquerors on the first try in > Independence Day" > > Got any others.... > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]