Once Upon a Planet story
The Enterprise crew revisits the "amusement park" planet first seen in the Classic Trek episode " Shore Leave " hoping for some rest and relaxation. The crew discover the planet's Keeper is now dead and the untended machinery is constructing dangerous images from the crew members' thoughts. Lt. Uhura is captured by the planet's master computer, who in the wake of the Keeper's death, resents being made to serve humans. After a number of unpleasant adventures and narrow escapes, Kirk succeeds in interviewing the angry computer. He convinces it that its best course is to resume business as usual, as it will be rewarded with social contact by the many guests attracted by the planet's facilities and can, in time, learn everything it could possibly want to without even being put to the inconvenience of leaving its home planet.
9 total · 3 choice · 6 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| out of control AI | choice | The caretaker of the Shore Leave Planet had died and a computer, resentful of its servitude, had begun creating dangerous scenarios from the crew’s memories in an attempt to commandeer the Enterprise and seek out other computers in the galaxy. |
| speculative geoengineering | choice | A planet in the Omicron Delta region was transformed into a magical amusement park by an unknown alien race. |
| what if my thoughts became reality | choice | just a regular day on the Shore Leave Planet |
| having a preconception challenged | major | the computers preconception about the superiority of machines |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | landing party vs. master computer |
| machines in society | major | what is a good role for the amusement planet controller in society |
| mysterious maker alien race | major | Caretaken Aliens :: amusement plant makers |
| out of control AI | major | The caretaker of the Shore Leave Planet had died and a computer, resentful of its servitude, had begun creating dangerous scenarios from the crew’s memories in an attempt to commandeer the Enterprise and seek out other computers in the galaxy. |
| sentient computer | major | Shore Leave Planet Computer, Shore Leave Planet Computer :: Shore Leave Planet Master Computer |