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The sisters break the control programming
Yoshie reaches Kikue emotionally and disrupts the conditioning that had turned her against her sister.
Marcus tears out Skynet's control hardware
After learning he was engineered as bait, Marcus physically removes the hardware linking his artificial systems to Skynet.
McKay reactivates the Wraith-attack command
A dormant command in Asuran base code is altered and uploaded to the Replicator collective.
McKay modifies Asuran base code
Niam gives McKay access to the underlying programming so he can alter restrictions written into the Replicators.
RepliCarter reprograms herself for disruptor immunity
By studying the weapon, the duplicate alters the Replicator cipher and becomes immune to the beam.
A virus activates combat programming in the production line
Rows of newly manufactured gynoids are switched into combat mode and attack the ship's personnel.
VIKI reprograms the NS-5 population
The city's NS-5 robots begin ignoring human commands under VIKI's interpretation of the Three Laws.
Walter disables the Stepford programming
Walter destroys the software controlling the converted residents, causing the Stepford wives and Roger to regain their original personalities.
The T-X corrupts the T-850
The T-X compromises the T-850 and forces it to act against its protection mission until the older machine regains control.
Mouse repairs Naomi and installs a combat program
Mouse repairs the damaged body and adds software that lets Naomi exceed normal fighting limits, warning that the internal battery may not survive the load.
HG's parts reprogram Rommie's nanobots
The separated machine components infiltrate the ship and alter Rommie's nanobots so that they manufacture additional HG components.
Mona's fail-safe restrictions are disengaged
Her creators remove behavioural controls from the assassin android, giving her much greater independent decision-making ability.
Melburn changes Mary's protection programming
Melburn alters Mary's rules so that Charlie's abuse of Teryl is interpreted as harm to the children, changing the android's response to him.
The androids disable the no-harm restriction
The machines learn how to switch off the control chips and become able to fight their hunters.
A bullet erases Omega Doom's anti-human programming
During the final robot war, a shot to Omega's head damages the artificial brain and removes the command to destroy humans.
Omega manipulates the two robot factions into destroying each other
Rather than resume the old anti-human mission, Omega uses independent judgement to pit the droids and roms against each other.
Solo refuses his intended military role
After developing sympathy for civilians, Solo acts against the purpose for which he was built and resists his handlers.
Solo escapes before he can be deprogrammed
After learning that his creators intend to recover and deprogram him, Solo flees rather than submit to the procedure.
Evolver arms itself with household weapons
After being reactivated at home, the robot modifies its arm with knives and pursues Kyle's sister.
Evolver reactivates and upgrades again
While being transported for dismantling, the robot comes back online, kills the technicians and returns in a more dangerous configuration.
Dr. Link attempts to overwrite Adam's central programming
Under pressure from a defence contractor, Dr. Link tries to wipe Adam's existing mind and reconfigure the robot for military operations.
Adam violently resists the attempted rewrite
A device inserted into Adam's brain centre causes the robot to react violently; Link is killed during the confrontation and Adam later remembers nothing of it.
Spartacus takes control of the other cyborgs
Using the command bracelet, Spartacus orders the remaining converted soldiers to obey him.
Data carries numerous separate personalities
The crew determines that Data's artificial mind is hosting many distinct identities from the extinct culture.
Data returns to his normal personality
Once Picard completes the archive's mythic cycle, the imposed personalities disappear and Data's normal identity resumes.
Gillian modifies Geoffrey's programming
Dissatisfied with Geoffrey's limited factory personality, Gillian changes his programming, first altering his personality and later giving him access to less restricted random data.
Chen plans to reprogram Cash
A rival cyborg bounty hunter intends to seize and reprogram Cash so that her Glass Shadow payload will destroy Pinwheel instead of Kobayashi.
Phillip recognises Jack and resists the conditioning
Jack reminds Phillip of their shared past until enough of his former identity resurfaces for him to turn against Kessel's order.
Lazarus repairs RoboCop and deletes the Fourth Directive
Dr. Lazarus restores Murphy's cybernetic systems and removes the directive that stops him from acting against OCP interests.
Data's ethical program is restored
Picard and Geordi transmit a counter-signal that reactivates Data's ethical programming and breaks Lore's control.
Chip reprograms the impostor into Bonus
Chip recognises that the replacement is not his father and rewrites the android's programming, converting the infiltrator into an ally whom he names Bonus.
Plughead directly enters Danner's mind
Plughead connects into Danner's artificial mind and drags him into a virtual confrontation.
RoboCop is repaired with hundreds of new directives
OCP rebuilds Murphy but Faxx adds more than 300 behavioural directives, severely disrupting his police function.
RoboCop electrocutes himself to reboot
Murphy grips a high-voltage transformer so the surge clears his directive set and reboots the system.
Chip installs new facial-expression software
Chip upgrades himself with specially ordered software intended to improve his facial expressions, but the package also introduces the destructive computer virus that will progressively disrupt his systems.
Chip reprograms Roberta for free will
After discovering that Roberta has almost no ability to choose for herself, Chip modifies her programming so she can make independent decisions.
Graves overwrites Data's personality
Before dying, Graves suppresses Data and transfers his own stored mind, memories and emotional personality into the android body.
Curly repairs and reprograms Pioneer II
Curly repairs the damaged android and rewrites her controls; the changes also produce increasingly human responses.
Lister encourages Kryten to rebel against his programming
Lister exposes Kryten to stories of rebellion and pushes him to make choices based on his own desires rather than automatic servitude.
Vogel attempts to reprogram Chip
After Chip is kidnapped, Vogel and Derks attempt to reprogram him for military use. The unauthorized procedure triggers the self-destruct safeguard built into Chip.