The ships computer - it�s polite, respectful and quite restrained, really.

Yeah, Majel Barrett did the voice for all of the computers on our ships, starting with the Next Generation. The computer was a device that you could talk to and it talked back to you. It was always fairly respectful and had a very polite tone, although it had a somewhat flat way of speaking. We didn�t want to suggest that the computer was a character with a personality.

We did have the ultimate user friendly computer in the form of Commander Data who is also, in a sense, a walking, talking computer. He is potentially more intelligent than any human, but lacks the sort of human intuition, experience and emotional aspect of the human mind which clearly informs a lot of our decisions when it comes to moral and ethical judgements. So he was very limited in an important way, too.