The Orville: "Identity, Part 1"

The Orville: "Identity, Part 1" (sic). Fox TV. Season 2, episode 8 (21 February 2019).

The robotic/AI Isaac, a member of the crew of The Orville and an ambassador and investigator from the planet Kaylon, suddenly shuts down; to revive him and possibly get the robotic/AI people of Kaylon to join The Union, The Orville goes to the planet to make contact. The Union delegation is received, and Isaac is revived, but — it turns out that Isaac's shutdown was part of the Kaylon agenda after he had gathered sufficient information on humans and other intelligent life-forms of the Union: precisely to get The Orville to the planet for the machine-intelligences' nefarious purposes (apparently involving genocide on an interplanetary scale).

The robot "apocalypse" threat is sufficiently a cliché that we have the term, and the idea has been mocked to good effect by, e.g., the robot Bender's "Kill All the Humans" shtick on Futurama.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 22Feb19