What Are Little Girls Made Of?
- Episode aired Oct 20, 1966
- TV-PG
- 50m
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7.5/10
4.6K
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Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.
Vince Deadrick Sr.
- Mathews
- (as Vince Deadrick)
Eddie Paskey
- Lieutenant Leslie
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn Robert Bloch's original script, a wealthy socialite named Margo hired the Enterprise to look for Doctor Korby, whom she greatly admired. In his script re-writes, Gene Roddenberry felt the role would be better filled by Korby's wife or fiancée, which would play well with the doctor's alleged intimate relationship with Andrea and his emotional coldness. Finally, he wrote the part to feature Christine Chapel, who was previously featured in The Naked Time (1966) (and was played by Roddenberry's lover, Majel Barrett). In any case, money is no longer widely used, certainly not by the Federation, so it is hard to see how someone could hire the Enterprise.
- GoofsOne close-up of Kirk during his last conversation with Ruk is flipped. Notice that his hair is parted the opposite way and the colors of the costume are reversed.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: The Man Trap (1966)
- SoundtracksTheme From Star Trek
Written by and credited to Alexander Courage
Featured review
Artificial consciousness, androids and a weird stalactite...
Stretching the limits of the genre and of what was acceptable to TV audiences in 1966, this episode, as with other Star Trek episodes, explored human consciousness and helped inform the budding transhumanist movement that developed in the following decades. Gene Roddenberry apparently had a direct hand in the script for this one, making changes right on the set (which delayed the production somewhat but obviously improved the final product).
Airing just before Halloween in 1966, the episode has more of a horror tone to it than typical Star Trek fare, with Ted Cassidy -- recognizable to contemporary audiences as "Lurch" from 'The Addams Family' series -- playing a giant android monster.
This episode seemed to have a higher production value than other episodes. For example, William Shatner's stunt double was nearly indistinguishable from the lead actor in this one. (Other episodes had a double who bore no resemblance to Shatner even when using wide shots.) In fact, Shatner performed many of the stunts himself in this episode.
I'm not sure if the budget was bigger for this episode, but in any case I think a huge portion of that budget apparently went toward double-sided tape for Sherry Jackson's costume, which was risque for the late 60's. This episode also included a nude scene by Shatner. They actually had a censorship person on set to make sure Jackson's costume (designed by Bill Theiss) didn't reveal any side cleavage.
But somehow those censors missed the stalactite in the shape of a giant male reproductive organ that Kirk used in an attempt to bludgeon the Lurch monster android. I'm not kidding. About 35 minutes into the episode, Kirk breaks off a stalactite from the ceiling of the cave which is in the exact shape of a male reproductive organ. It's unmistakably deliberate and it's totally unnecessary to the plot and I wonder if they put that in there just to mess with the network censors, who were obviously a big pain for the producers, cast and crew.
The episode continued the tradition of killing off "redshirts" from the Enterprise's landing crews, with Kirk making a special call to the Enterprise just to ask them to beam down some guys for that purpose in the beginning of the story. (Actually, this is the first episode where the redshirts actually wore red shirts.)
There weren't a lot of black folks in this episode, which was typical of television at the time. In fact, Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series was the first black woman to hold such a prominent role in a TV series. So, given contemporary standards, the show was progressive on race.
Overall, this is one of the better regular episodes from the original series and has held up well over time. I'm giving it a rating of 8/10.
Advisory: Gun (phaser) violence; fist fights; and a stalactite in the shape of a giant male reproductive organ used as a weapon.
Airing just before Halloween in 1966, the episode has more of a horror tone to it than typical Star Trek fare, with Ted Cassidy -- recognizable to contemporary audiences as "Lurch" from 'The Addams Family' series -- playing a giant android monster.
This episode seemed to have a higher production value than other episodes. For example, William Shatner's stunt double was nearly indistinguishable from the lead actor in this one. (Other episodes had a double who bore no resemblance to Shatner even when using wide shots.) In fact, Shatner performed many of the stunts himself in this episode.
I'm not sure if the budget was bigger for this episode, but in any case I think a huge portion of that budget apparently went toward double-sided tape for Sherry Jackson's costume, which was risque for the late 60's. This episode also included a nude scene by Shatner. They actually had a censorship person on set to make sure Jackson's costume (designed by Bill Theiss) didn't reveal any side cleavage.
But somehow those censors missed the stalactite in the shape of a giant male reproductive organ that Kirk used in an attempt to bludgeon the Lurch monster android. I'm not kidding. About 35 minutes into the episode, Kirk breaks off a stalactite from the ceiling of the cave which is in the exact shape of a male reproductive organ. It's unmistakably deliberate and it's totally unnecessary to the plot and I wonder if they put that in there just to mess with the network censors, who were obviously a big pain for the producers, cast and crew.
The episode continued the tradition of killing off "redshirts" from the Enterprise's landing crews, with Kirk making a special call to the Enterprise just to ask them to beam down some guys for that purpose in the beginning of the story. (Actually, this is the first episode where the redshirts actually wore red shirts.)
There weren't a lot of black folks in this episode, which was typical of television at the time. In fact, Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series was the first black woman to hold such a prominent role in a TV series. So, given contemporary standards, the show was progressive on race.
Overall, this is one of the better regular episodes from the original series and has held up well over time. I'm giving it a rating of 8/10.
Advisory: Gun (phaser) violence; fist fights; and a stalactite in the shape of a giant male reproductive organ used as a weapon.
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