The episode confirms that Control , Section 31’s threat-assessment AI, has gone rogue. It has murdered the admiralty and is using sophisticated holographic projections to manipulate Starfleet and frame Spock.
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The use of malicious holograms in this episode provides a lore reason for why Starfleet might have grown to mistrust the technology by the 23rd and 24th centuries. The episode confirms that Control , Section 31’s
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