Star Trek Thoughts: The Ultimate Computer

As I got to the end of my Blu-Ray set of the second season of Star Trek, I stepped away from watching what episodes I wanted to watch as they were ordered on the discs (which was how they'd been broadcast in 1967 and 1968, not the order they'd been produced in) to save just one episode for last. "The Ultimate Computer," in which Starfleet installs a supercomputer to run an almost unmanned Enterprise and it goes just about as well as should be expected, doesn't seem high on many lists of most notable and quickly thought of episodes. That sense of it being available as a personal favourite, though, may just add a bit to the interest I've had in its themes and story since I first read James Blish's short-story adaptation of it.
( 'Did you see the love light in Spock's eyes? The right computer finally came along.' )