Star Trek Movie's 40th anniversary, Superintelligence and the Singularity

Last week, I went to see the 40th anniversary re-release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (or ST:TMP for short). I had seen the movie as a kid when it first came out in 1979, after seeing many episodes of Star Trek via re-runs pretty much every-day throughout the 1970s (which were responsible for increasing the show's popularity since it had been cancelled after 3 seasons after its debut in 1966). The 40th anniversary screening had a little featurette before the movie that had some of the actors and producers talking about the onerous process of bringing this troubled movie to the screen (it was called The Longest Trek: Writing the Motion Picture,"). Seeing it again now, after all these years, I was struck by a few different things about the movie and its history that I either didn't know or hadn't thought about. For one thing, the re-issue had the same music as the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG) n, which struck me as odd.