This is a spoof of a climactic moment in Star Wars: A New Hope that I always remember with a smile. It’s when the rebels in the base on Yavin’s moon realize Luke has switched off his computer and ask if he’s all right. There’s a really short cut – only a second or two long – where two technicians look at each other as if to say “we are so screwed.”
“Trust the computer, the computer is your friend” is a tagline from a roleplaying game from the ’80s called Paranoia.
