society regulating central computer crash theme
People come to rely on a single central computer, but it crashes and everyone dies. That's a real "blue screen of death".
Examples
The Bynar's central computer was knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse in tng1x15 "11001001" and they nearly perished.
7 total · 2 choice · 2 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror3x06 | choice | The bee swarms were somehow susceptible to a centralized attack, but the details were unclear. |
| shortstory: The Machine Stops (1909) | choice | when the central machine failed, civilization collapsed |
| tng1x15 | major | Bynars relied on their planetary central computer to the extent that an outage threatened their civilization. |
| tos1x23 | major | Eminians thought their civilization would collapse after Kirk destroyed their central computer |
| tng1x17 | minor | The Aldeans were left helpless when Wesley broke their central computer. |
| tos2x09 | minor | Vaalians believed they needed Vaal to run their village Kirk destroyed their central computer |
| tos2x12 | minor | Androids all died when Number One short circuted sue to Kirk’s logical paradox |