Quote:Not just there - there were plenty of AIs in TOS episodes. "I, Mudd" was crawling with them, and one was installed on the Enterprise itself during "The Ultimate Computer", just to name two examples. Granted, Kirk was usually destroying the AIs instead of working with them, but the've been there for a long time... and it's a sure bet that some Trekkie Fen will remember this.
AIs are not generally a Trek thing up until then, but there was one in the TOS novels
(Edit: And it's because of the "Kirk the Computer Killer" mentality that Noah won't let the girls anywhere near Trekkie-controlled installations...)
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