DARK STAR

DARK STAR. John Carpenter, dir. USA: Bryanston Pictures, 1974.

See for character Pinback trapped in the spaceship Dark Stars elevator shaft, the female computer that runs the Dark Stars, 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."

Discussed by John Thonen in "John Carpenter: Cinema of Isolation," Cinefantastique 30.7/8 (Oct. 1998): 64-73, most directly on p. 65.[1]