we discussed that bit with Forsythe, Sep. Decided they were late to the bridge, and that it only made sense to have it end at that point, so that they too could get involved. Had this been advanced, we'd have had them brought into the collab at that point instead.

The ship computer is not an AI per se. (At least that was our idea) That'd not be trusted by anyone with human-form replicator experience. But of course, the British don't have such experience, and the computer isn't a nanite composition (we think), so who knows?