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Character name from Star Trek: Original Series

I'm trying to remember the name of a minor character from the original Star Trek series: His identifying characteristic was that he was kind of built into a computer. I don't think he spoke. He was in a sitting position all the time, something like that. Surely this is enough to ring a bell in a Trek fan? I appreciate any help here. Wolfgangus (talk) 09:55, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Christopher Pike? image 8I.24.07.715 ^talk 10:04, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

That's him, thank you so much!Wolfgangus (talk) 10:20, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

He's also in the new Star Trek movie... Dismas|^(talk) 12:57, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Marylin Monroe - what reasons for feeling depressed enough for suicide?

Assuming here that she did commit suicide, what reasons did she have to do so? Her article suggests that she had good news about future film roles shortly before she died. What made her sufficiently depressed? 78.146.17.231 (talk) 18:31, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Clinical depression is an internal process, and is not caused by external stimuli. A person can live through positively awful stuff and not even consider suicide, and a different person can have a perfectly priviledged life and be suicidal. There is no way to judge that one person's life circumstances "caused" them to be depressed enough for suicide, because depression is not caused by what happens to you. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

It also doesn't help that she was a heavy drug user, which can affect one's state of mind quite a bit (not to mention the whole question of whether it was really an accidental overdose anyway). --98.217.14.211 (talk) 02:48, 17 May 2009 (UTC)