The Questor Tapes

The Questor Tapes is a 1974 television movie about an android portrayed by Robert Foxworth with incomplete memory tapes who is searching for his creator and his purpose. Conceived by and executive produced by Gene Roddenberry, the script is credited to Roddenberry and fellow Star Trek alumnus Gene L. Coon.

Project Questor is the brainchild of the genius Dr. Emil Vaslovik, a Nobel laureate. Vaslovik had developed plans to build a superhuman android. A team of the worlds foremost experts is able to build the android even though they do not understand the components with which they are working they are only able to follow the instructions and install the parts left by Vaslovik, who has disappeared. Attempts to decode the programming tape were worse than merely unsuccessfulthey also erased approximately half of the tapes contents. They decide to substitute their own programming, over the objections of Jerome Jerry Robinson Mike Farrell, the only team member who had actually worked with Dr. Vaslovik. He is overruled by the head of the project, Geoffrey Darrow John Vernon. When the androids body has been finished, the new tape is loaded, but with no apparent results. In desperation, Robinson persuades Darrow to allow Vasloviks tape what remains of it to be loaded. Again, the team is disappointed, as there appears to be no response.However, once left alone, the android comes to life. It adds the various cosmetic touches to a previously featureless outer skin, transforming itself from an it to a him, and he then leaves the laboratory to visit Vasloviks office and archives it is there that he first identifies himself as Questor. The android forces Robinson to accompany him in a search for Vaslovik, with Darrow in pursuit of both, following a minuscule datum in his original programming. Questor who becomes more human as the story progresses only knows that it has something to do with an aquatic vehicle a boat and that if he does not find Vaslovik before the end of a countdown, the nuclear generator in his abdomen will overload and explode. Vaslovik had programmed this into him to prevent his creation from being misused, and time is running out. Just as Questor deciphers the clues and tells Robinson that he knows where Vaslovik is, he is shot by British soldiers, and returned t

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