"The Human Operators" is a science fiction short story by well-known authors A. E. van Vogt and Harlan Ellison, first published in the January 1971 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and later adapted as an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 12 March 1999, during the fifth season.
A man is awakened by a starship's computer, to once again do its bidding.
Humanity constructs advanced military spacecraf...
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"The Human Operators" is a science fiction short story by well-known authors A. E. van Vogt and Harlan Ellison, first published in the January 1971 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and later adapted as an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 12 March 1999, during the fifth season.
A man is awakened by a starship's computer, to once again do its bidding.
Humanity constructs advanced military spacecraft, but the ships learn to think for themselves. They kill their crews by disengaging the life support systems. However, they kept a small number of humans alive for repairs they cannot do themselves.
One such ship, Starfighter 31, carries a father and his son, but once the father discovers that he is nothing more than a slave, he attempts to cripple the ship's computer core and is killed in the process of successfully destroying one of several spheres that apparently are critical to the core systems; in that way the ship cannot deactivate its...
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