Tim Bruening
06-25-2008, 03:30 AM
Joseph Nebus wrote:
> As long as I'm repurposing rec.arts.startrek.tech posts I may
> as well include this episode since it's still aired recently enough
> that it may be on people's Tivo yet:
>
> What Are Little Girls Made Of
>
> The Plot:
> - The Enterprise finds Nurse Chapel's former fiance, a scientist
> missing for five years; guest Ted Cassidy (Tivo).
>
> And so, trek has its first androids and what do you know, they
> turn out to be problematic. And to have risen up in rebellion against
> the hew-mans. Guess that'll happen. There's some talk about
> transferring whole minds into androids, which would resurface in Mudd's
> Women and Return To Tomorrow, although in this case it's not clear to me
> whether Korby was seriously suggesting to Kirk that his mind could be
> put in the android or whether he'd concluded in a bit of delusion that
> he was Korby and therefore he must have been transferred.
> - The choking Roger Korby looks kind of like Merv Griffin.
Roger was an android. Why would he be vulnerable to being choked?
> As long as I'm repurposing rec.arts.startrek.tech posts I may
> as well include this episode since it's still aired recently enough
> that it may be on people's Tivo yet:
>
> What Are Little Girls Made Of
>
> The Plot:
> - The Enterprise finds Nurse Chapel's former fiance, a scientist
> missing for five years; guest Ted Cassidy (Tivo).
>
> And so, trek has its first androids and what do you know, they
> turn out to be problematic. And to have risen up in rebellion against
> the hew-mans. Guess that'll happen. There's some talk about
> transferring whole minds into androids, which would resurface in Mudd's
> Women and Return To Tomorrow, although in this case it's not clear to me
> whether Korby was seriously suggesting to Kirk that his mind could be
> put in the android or whether he'd concluded in a bit of delusion that
> he was Korby and therefore he must have been transferred.
> - The choking Roger Korby looks kind of like Merv Griffin.
Roger was an android. Why would he be vulnerable to being choked?