...The Star Trek ship's computer had Majel Barrett's voice, but was usually not playing up its femaleness. But there was one original-series episode (I forget which) with a horrible comic B-plot in which some sort of software upgrade had caused it to behave in an exaggeratedly female, flirty manner, portrayed with the usual subtlety of such things on classic Star Trek. It would constantly call Kirk "dear". Eventually he orders the change undone.
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