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Consider this, of Richard Daystrom: for all his pride and hidden insecurity and instability, his goals were noble (saving lives) and his moral principles rock-solid - to the point that a machine, imprinted with those same principles and confronted with evidence of having betrayed them, chose to die. Believed that it should, that it must die for its crimes.

(And what an achievement for the time, when Roddenberry had to fight to keep one black person on the bridge, to give such a role to William Marshall.)