Command processor

The command processor was a computer component found aboard starships and space stations that was necessary to carry out orders from the crew. Its construct consisted of several subprocessors. ()
After Julian Bashir was attacked and made unconscious by the Lethean Altovar in 2371, he awoke to find that the Deep Space 9 had seemingly suffered a massive systems failure, which included to deactivation of the station's central computer network. Working alone, he figured he could possibly reroute the primary command processor to bypass the computer's disabled systems to get it operational once again. ()
The secondary command processors aboard starships were located on deck 12, on the starboard ventral. They were responsible for operating the ship's self-destruct sequence. In 2372, Seska arranged for a series of seemingly random Kazon raider attacks on the , doing minor damage each time to the secondary command processors. The repeated attacks complicated repair efforts, ultimately resulting in the complete destruction of the processors, which Ensign Harry Kim estimated would take at least two days to rebuild from scratch, assuming Voyager wasn't attacked again. She was thus ultimately able to prevent Captain Kathryn Janeway from initiating the auto-destruct when the Kazon-Nistrim overwhelmed Voyagers defenses, though nobody onboard was able to guess her goal beforehand, as the secondary command processors were considered a "nonessential area." ()
The command processors aboard the Intrepid-class were maintained through a series of gel pack relays. When it was discovered by Seven of Nine and the Doctor that one out of the three gel packs making up sequence 6-theta-9, Seven rerouted the command processors to bypass that particular series. Later, when Seven attempted to adjust Voyagers heading, the computer was unable to comply with her request, leaving Seven to issue a manual override of the computer, and request it to initiate a level 4 diagnostic of its command processors. Once the diagnostic was complete, the computer indicated that there were quantum failures in one third of the ship's gel pack relays, which Seven corrected by rerouting all functional gel pack relays through subprocessor chi-1-4." ()
Category:Computer technology