DARK STAR
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Jump to navigationJump to searchDARK STAR. John Carpenter, dir. USA: Bryanston Pictures, 1974.
See for character Pinback trapped in the spaceship Dark Star's elevator shaft, the female computer (identified as "Mother" by David Gerrold) that runs the Dark Star, and the computer-bomb that eventually develops delusions of godhead. S. F. Ency. cites a novelization by Alan Dean Foster (1974).
Cf. and contrast dialog with warhead in Star Trek: Voyager episode "Warhead," and the dialog over releasing a prisoner in Star Trek: Discovery, episode 1.2, "Battle at the Binary Star."
Discussed by John Thonen in "John Carpenter: Cinema of Isolation," Cinefantastique 30.7/8 (Oct. 1998): 64-73, most directly on p. 65.[1]
