It was an insulting name that one of the other starship captains used when addressing Captain Kirk in the Star Trek Original Series episode, "The Ultimate Computer". The M-1 computer installed on, and controlling, the Enterprise had just won a wargame against 2 or 3 other starships. "Dunsel" refers to an object or person that is no longer or not needed.
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it is a term for a captian whos services are not needed in anyway.
a showpiece.
It was an insulting name that one of the other starship captains used when addressing Captain Kirk in the Star Trek Original Series episode, "The Ultimate Computer". The M-1 computer installed on, and controlling, the Enterprise had just won a wargame against 2 or 3 other starships. "Dunsel" refers to an object or person that is no longer or not needed.
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Captain Dunsel is a term midshipman use in Annapolis Navel Academy for part that has no useful usage.
Referenced in Star Trek--
Useless, unnecessary.
he was a military officer refered to by M-1 on the old STAR TREK series.