"Spirit Rover" lasted YEARS Longer than anyone dared to believe was possible. Were Star Trek TNG's 3 little doggylike computer's called" exocomps?" That episode about a 'dead computer,' broke my heart. It still does, whenever I think about it. It's a TNG masterpiece. A tearjerker about a hunk of metal. TNG was one of the top five TV series, ever. America's two REAL little exocomp hounds on Mars, outlasted their warrantees. WAY outlasted them! The TNG episode was called, "the Quality of Life."... Sign in to see full entry.