Week Seven of Star Trek.
This week’s episode What are Little Girls made of?
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The movies are a no no.
Later Star Trek series are out of bounds as well. We’ll treat this as Star Trek Year Zero.
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Synopsis:
The Enterprise goes to a dead planet to see if they can contact a famous scientist. Much to their surprise he contacts them and invites Kirk down to see what he has discovered. Both Kirk and Nurse Chapel are captured by Dr Roger Corby and his androids and Kirk is used as a pattern for a new android duplicate. Will he take over the Enterprise?
I liked this one, especially since Lurch is one of the guest stars. Man that dud is big. Boy did Kirk really get into his head to turn him against Corby. Kirk was also pretty quick thinking in putting that racist phrase into his head to alert Spock. I also liked the moment where duplicate Kirk turns to Christine and says “Androids don’t eat”
The two guards sure weren’t very aware of their surroundings to get taken out so easily, though it seemed the second guy was in shock, perhaps some grief upon hearing of the death of his partner. Perhaps that is why he turned away from the only place he could possibly be attacked from.
Nice surprise ending too, though considering it had been foreshadowed by the revelation of Dr Brown earlier.
So I guess he was nothing more than an android who believed he was Roger Corby
So we’ve now seen Dr. McCoy’s old flame and Nurse Chapel’s old flame. I wonder who’s next? A Vulcanian babe for Mr. Spock? Or maybe Sulu will run into an alien girl he used to date…
Hey… wait a minute… what about Christine’s deep, abiding love for Spock? Was that real, or just an effect of the bad oxygen molecules - or whatever it was - from “The Naked Time”?
And, again, no exploring. Just going places we’ve already been. Okay, there was a potential problem here, but if they were really worried about him, why wait until FIVE YEARS had gone by since his last communication?
That aside, I liked this one. The series so far seems to have an over-all theme of “what is the nature of humanity?” When Charlie X was given extraordinary powers, was he still human? Was Gary Mitchell a human with god-like powers, or a god who used to be human? And now, where is the line between man and machine?
Great stuff, as far as that goes. Honestly, I like the fact that these aren’t heavy, wordy debates. They’re just aspects of the story that leave you thinking.
So, uh, erm, uh, why is Captain Kirk carrying around a large petrified penis? He chases the Lurch guy with it. I’d be petrified if he came at me with that thing! Yes, at least two puns intended.
Robert Bloch has done a lot better.
Majel Barrett must be somebody’s girlfriend. She sure the hell didn’t get on this show on her acting ability!
It’s a shame that creating androids calls for ancient, lost technology orders of magnitude beyond the “present-day” ST universe, or at any rate Kirk’s outfit. I suppose that means we’ve seen the last of them. An android as a regular character would have been cool. Mind you, for emotionless, logical, superhuman powers of calculation and so on, I guess Spock’s got that slot buttonholed for good.
Spock’s girlfriend: Does he necessarily have one? My guess would be that the Vulcans(*), being superintelligent, logical (there we go again) and all that, would probably breed according to plan - they may have the bloodlines mapped out generations in advance for the best possible chromosomal match-ups. We think it’s icky to breed ourselves like livestock, but who’s to say the Vulcans follow our reasoning - or would even call it reasoning? (I doubt “icky” counts for much with Vulcans.) In that case, is there any reason to suppose that the Vulcans even have much time for erotic love?
Sure would be neat if we got a look at the Vulcan homeworld some time though! What are the odds?
(* Is it “Vulcan” or “Vulcanian”? The latter sounds odd to me, for some reason… kinda clumsy. Maybe it’s just my English ear.)
Vulcan?
It is definitly Vulcainian. All epsiode that mention his race refere to him as Vulcanian. Vulcan sounds like something to do with Volcanoes.
Sheesh.
My bad. In my defence, it’s easier to type. Sheesh. Still, it’s not like the writers’ll get as sloppy as me.
This is a great series already! And what’s the state of real space travel going to be like by the time the Five-Year Mission’s over (*)? Any bets on a permanent Moonbase and a Mars project well under way?
All the best,
Mal
(*) In a way it’s a shame to think of the show being limited to only five years. Maybe they’ll have a second show, perhaps Kirk get promoted and they get a new captain in, or something? But now I’m just being greedy. It’s just, this almost feels like being on a real star ship.
Assuming that you used “universe” catachrestically for “solar system”, though, I’ll take a stab at Spock’s homeworld not being an undiscovered planet in ours. Plainly his background is at least as hi-tech as ours, probably a good deal more (I get the impression that he’s about as smart as any computer on the Enterprise, for a start) and so if the Vulcanians lived locally, the scriptwriters would have to explain away why we’ve not heard from them in our own century. Of course, that’s not a given, and it could be a plot development for later in the series. For that matter, do we even know how many Vulcanians there are about the place? The ship seems short on alien species.
C’mon! More episodes! This show should break all ratings records.
An android as a regular character would have been cool. Mind you, for emotionless, logical, superhuman powers of calculation and so on, I guess Spock’s got that slot buttonholed for good.
:eek: :wally :smack: :rolleyes: 
lived locally, the scriptwriters would have to explain away why we’ve not heard from them in our own century. Of course, that’s not a given, and it could be a plot development for later in the series. For that matter, do we even know how many Vulcanians there are about the place? The ship seems short on alien species.