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'''DARK STAR. John Carpenter, dir.''' USA: Bryanston Pictures, 1974. [[Category: Drama]]
 
'''DARK STAR. John Carpenter, dir.''' USA: Bryanston Pictures, 1974. [[Category: Drama]]
  
See for character Pinback trapped in the spaceship DARK STAR's elevator shaft, the female computer that runs the ''DARK STAR'''s, and the computer-bomb that eventually develops delusions of godhead. ''S. F. Ency.'' cites a novelization by Alan Dean Foster (1974).
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See for character Pinback trapped in the spaceship ''Dark Star'''s elevator shaft, the female computer that runs the ''Dark Star'''s, 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 "[[Star Trek: Voyager®, "Warhead"|Warhead]]."
 
Cf. and contrast dialog with warhead in ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode "[[Star Trek: Voyager®, "Warhead"|Warhead]]."

Revision as of 17:58, 19 March 2023

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]