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• Breakdown can occur from many causes.
• Insufficient safeguards built in.
• That unit is a woman. A mass of conflicting impulses.
  -- Spock and Nomad, "The Changeling," stardate 3541.9...
• Man is not just a biological unit that you can patch together.
  -- McCoy, "The Changeling," stardate 3541.9....
• Many people, while they will not experience a nervous breakdown themselves, can be rather easily identified as carriers of this malady.
• As promised, she's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready.
  A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her. -- Scotty, "The Search for Spock," stardate 8210....
• Spock: "She can still outrun us. And outgun us. But there is the Mutura Nebula at 1-5-3 Mark 4.
  Kirk: "Scotty, can we make it inside?" Scott: "The energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree so don't give me too many bumps....
• Data: "I am unable to penetrate the base systems command structure, Captain.
  -- "The Best Of Both Worlds Part II", Stardate 44003.3...
• firebottle n.obs. A large, primitive, power-hungry active electrical device, similar in function to a FET but constructed out of glass, metal, and vacuum.
  Characterized by high cost, low density, low reliability, high-temperature operation, and high power dissipation....