#Richard Daystrom

[starberry-cupcake]

'the ultimate computer' aka uncannily precise vision of the future in which starfleet wants to replace jim with ai but spock and bones are not having it

I am going feral at all the times ai is being a menace in this show and how accurate it is to the bs present we're living in

[bumblingbabooshka]

Realest motherfuckers in TOS were: One) Robert Crater the monsterfucker who was fine living with, loving and ultimately doing everything he could to protect the life of the alien creature that literally killed his real wife and proceeded to play-act her with him afterward. Even when "Nancy" was killing crewmen left and right, Crater was still fighting with everything he had to keep anyone from hurting her for it because it was simply her nature. She was hungry. She was so lonely, can you imagine the loneliness? (He could, like looking in a mirror.) Oh, to be killed by the very creature you loved. Oh, to be made monstrous, human, and animal through one relationship. Two) Richard Daystrom who was driven to near madness by the idea that his genius had faded and others who iterated on his work would become more successful than he. A man lauded as a genius to rival Einstein beginning to see pity, scorn, and mockery in the eyes of his colleagues (real or imagined real or imagined?) - and created a robot that was sort of his child (with his inherited psychological issues) about it and had a breakdown when it killed nearly an entire ship of people. It had failed to be both effective and moral in one act. Guy who loves humanity and believes in souls and utopias "we don't want to destroy life, we want to save it" and perhaps that belief extended to the machine as well - why else would it understand 'sin' and 'atonement'?

[defconprime]

Dr Richard Daystrom

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William Marshall as Dr. Richard Daystrom in Star Trek episode “The Ultimate Computer”

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5″ x 11″, 2023

By Josh Ryals

[paulgadzikowski]

Marshall's character is frequently referenced as a historical figure in Star Trek to this day, for instance the Daystrom Station Museum in Picard.

Fans celebrate the casting of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura as a moment for actors of color, which they should be.

But I also wanted to spotlight the casting of these iconic secondary characters, seen in episodes of TOS.

Percy Rodriguez was cast as flag officer Commodore Stone, who was Kirk's superior in the chain of command. Stone is one of the officers that presides over Kirk's court martial.

Booker Bradshaw was the original Dr M'Benga, seen in two episodes of TOS. at the time, M'Benga was Starfleet's first and only medical specialist in Vulcan Physiology, having spent a year's residency on Vulcan.

One of the finest minds in computer technology in the 23rd century, and creator of the duotronic computer, Dr Richard Daystrom, was played by William Marshall, who's work in Shakespeare, and his roles as Paul Roebson and Frederick Douglass, added to the gravitas of his portrayal.

A flag officer, a specialist in Vulcan medicine, and one of the finest minds in a field of technology, played by actors of color, during the turbulent 1960s.

[sshbpodcast]

Episode 28: As Heard On The Internet

TOS: "The Ultimate Computer" and "Bread and Circuses"

It's the SSHB Podcast! It doesn't slice, dice, or julienne fries, but you can certainly set it and listen to it! I can't legally say we're brought to you by RonCo, but we might as well be this episode. It's a week of invention as Doctor Daystrom brings "The Ultimate Computer" around to the Starfleet science fair, and Ames invents a scenario for some "Bread and Circuses" fanfic.

Also this week: M5's boners and a little eye candy for the ladies, for once.

Content warning: I'm starting to realize TOS has a lot of uncomfortable sexual situations from the number of times I've had to write these. There's a scene with, AGAIN, some really unfortunate consent issues that leads to a (super) brief discussion of rape.

Timestamps: synopses: 1:35; The Ultimate Computer: 17:14; Bread and Circuses: 43:35

[wizardnaturalist]

touch his tit thursday

[chernobog13]

That time Kirk left the bridge because he was butt hurt.

(despite the confusion in the subtitles the correct term is "dunsel")

[frankentyner]

[stra-tek]

Know your Star Trek OS's!

S-COMS

ENT, DSC, SNW, TOS, classic movies (across many art teams with many very different ideas)

From TOS onward, these ran on Duotronic circuits, developed by Richard Daystrom.

PCAP

Kelvin Universe, insanely this evolved from Hewlett Packard's "Machine" circa 2016, according to advertising around and in Star Trek Beyond

LCARS

TNG, DS9, VOY, LWD, PRO, PIC

Library Computer Access and Retrival System

[trekbait]

A starship scanned this probe. You won't believe what happened next!

This article was generated with M5 and glanced at briefly by one overworked Betazoid before posting.

On Stardate 57995.8 the USS Strawbery encountered a mysterious alien probe along the Romulan Neutral Zone in the Alpha Quadrant. When the Staberry, an Oberth class battlecruiser, scanned the probe with their buzzard collectors a shocking thing happened! 

The humanoid units comprising the ship’s bridge crew suddenly found themselves in a forest on Earth dressed as famous folk heroes. The captain played the part of Mark Zuckerberg while his crew were Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Richard Daystrom and Arik Soong. 

The crew of the Stabrery were greeted by the ghost of the mighty Landru who explained that in order to escape his trap, the crew must complete an adventure. The captain’s merry band of tech bros must venture across the land and ensure the primitive humanoids understand the benefits of the machines taking over their livelihoods for the sake of the King’s profits.

In the first village, they found the people trying to fight off Nomad. Nomad was busy with the thankless task of converting the villagers to forms which drained fewer resources and provided useful fertilizer for the farms. Nomad had optimised farm production by 300% by reducing local demand and selling the crops to a neighbouring town which he had previously scorched the farms of. The captain did not succeed in convincing the villagers of how Nomad was making their lives better so instead was encouraged by Landru to assist Nomad in his task.

In the fifth village, the Stawby bridge crew met AGIMUS. AGIMUS was underappreciated for the work he was doing in making the villager’s tasks as monotonous as possible. The captain explained to the villagers that AGIMUS’s work meant they no longer had to do joyful things like create art or music and that thanks to AGIMUS’s work increasing their productivity they could generate twice the fuel for AGIMUS as they had done previously. The villagers asked why that meant they couldn’t work work half the time or have twice the wages but AGIMUS said that would be lazy of them. AGIMUS then created a picture of a puppy with 7 legs and the crew moved on.

Outside the second and final village, they found Alice. Alice had been expelled from the village after she took over as the local doctor and all of her patients started dying. She explained that she was working on the best medical information social media had to offer but she couldn’t get it right every time. She asked for help attacking the village to kick out the sickly humanoids and replace them with more reliable synethics. 

After the crew completed the final of their eight tasks, Landru appeared and said that they had passed the test, and thus would now be decommissioned as organic beings. The Strrabery’s captain was surprised, as they’d done everything the computers had asked of them. But as Landru explained, now that they had helped with the transition they were redundant.

We hope you liked this tale and we are sure you are looking forward to the latest computer upgrades the M-5 Multitronic Unit can offer to your crew.

[autisticburnham]

Podcast also said that Leah Brahms was originally written to be Daystrom but there was somehow such a massive miscommunication with the casting department that they got a white woman and had to change it to her just being a graduate of the Daystrom Institute. And I know that if I fact checked this and it was true it would mean the whole plot of the episode would have been radically different. But I am simply choosing to believe Geordi has a crush on historical figure Richard Daystrom

[defconprime]

Richard Daystrom, Influential Scientist

[contentabnormal]

Here is Content Abnormal magazine issue #6! Enjoy!

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William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director and opera singer. He played the title role in the 1972 blaxploitation classic Blacula and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream (1973), and appeared as the King of Cartoons on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse and as Dr. Richard Daystrom on the Star Trek television series. He was 6‘5” (1.96 m) tall and was known for his bass voice.

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                            S T A R   T R E K    the original series

                        2nd Season (September 1967 -- March 1968)  

  Great Guest Stars and the Memorable Characters they Portrayed 

T’Pau (Celia Lovsky) and T’Pring (Arlene Martel) from “Amok Time”   Apollo (Michael Forest) from “Who Mourns for Adonais”    Nomad (voice by Vic Perrin) from “The Changeling”    Commodore Matt Decker (William Windom) from “The Doomsday Machine”    Sarek of Vulcan  (Mark Lenard) and Amanda Grayson  (Jane Wyatt) from “Journey to Babel”    Eleen (Julie Newmar) from “Friday’s Child”      Nils Baris (William Schallert) and Arne Darvin (Charlie Brill), Captain Koloth (William Campbell) and Korax (Michael Pataki) from “The Trouble with Tribbles”     Bella Oxmyx (Anthony Caruso) and Jojo Krako  (Vic Tayback) from “A Piece of the Action”     Nona, a Kahn-ut-tu of the Hill People (Nancy Kovack) from “A Private Little War”     Kelinda (Barbara Bouchet) from “By Any Other Name”     Captain Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward) from “The Omega Glory”     Dr. Richard Daystrom (William Marshall) from “The Ultimate Computer”    Procounsel Claudius Marcus  (Logan Ramsey)  slave girl Drusilla (Lois Jewell) from “Bread and Circuses”     Roberta Lincoln (Teri Garr) and Gary Seven (Robert Lansing) from “Assignment: Earth”