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TOS episode #10 - What Are Little Girls Made Of?

 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:11 pm    Post subject: TOS episode #10 - What Are Little Girls Made Of? Reply with quote

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______ Star Trek-Trailer TOS-season 1 episode 9


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What Are Little Girls Made Of? - episode #10

Kirk Android: "Mind your own business, Mister Spock! I'm sick of your half-breed interference - do you hear?!"

Two Kirks for the Price of One! Supply the caption...?





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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We seem to have had a plethora of Kirks in the first season don't we! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Hey, I never thought of that before. How many episodes gave us more than one Kirk? Off hand, I can only think of this one and Mirror, Mirror. Are there more?

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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2019 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Enemy Within, What Are Little Girls Made of?, Operation: Annihilate (sort of with Shatner playing his own deceased brother), Mirror Mirror, and Whom Gods Destroy in the third season, Bud!
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" October 20, 1966.

Fun Facts } Writer Robert Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which won the prestigious Edgar Allen Poe Award.

Alfred Hitchcock would direct the film adaptation of Bloch's novel.

Robert Bloch was a big fan of author H.P. Lovecraft and the horror genre that Bloch would greatly contribute to with his writings.

In the original script a woman named Margo is a wealthy and a great admirer of the missing Dr.Roger Korby.
She hires the Enterprise to go in search of the acclaimed scientist.

The character of Margo would be altered several times in succeeding drafts. She would be changed to Mrs.Korby; then Korby's fiancee and finally to the Enterprise's Nurse Chapel.
Robert Bloch was an acclaimed writer & Gene Roddenberry felt that it was a coup to have such a talented writer do a script for ST:TOS. However, when Bloch submitted his script both GR & Producer Robert Justman were disappointed with it.

The script was considered to be so lacking that GR was rewriting it while the episode was being filmed.

Robert Justman had never been a fan of the Nurse Chapel character in the first place. He blamed actress Majel Barrett at the time but later realized that she was really a fine actress.

It was that the role of Nurse Chapel was poorly written and came of as a weak and wimpy character.

Majel Barrett agreed and stated that she was never a fan of her character on the series.

This is the only episode to prominently feature Nurse Chapel.

Budget considerations forced DeForest Kelly, James Doohan and George Takei not to appear in this episode.

Imposing guest star Ted Cassidy who was 6'9'' tall would portray the android Ruk.
While shooting this episode, Ted would record the voice of Balok for "The Corbomite Maneuver."

Ted would also supply the alien voice for the Gorn commander in "Arena."

As with this episode, Dr. McCoy would not also not appear in "The Menagerie, Part 2" and "Errand Of Mercy."

Stage 10 was the stage utilized for featuring different planets.

The construction of sets and the placement of soil and dragging it out and putting down floors was a huge task to do each time.

Set Designer Matt Jefferies found that building the caverns for the ice planet Exo III was one of his toughest challenges.
In part due to how large the set needed to be.

When Ruk hurls the Enterprise crewman down a crevasse to his death it became the very first of a long line of deaths of a "Red Shirt" that would become famous on Star Trek.

Androids Brown & Andrea both use the laser pistols originally seen in "The Cage" & "Where No Man Has Gone Before" pilots for Star Trek.

The pistol would resurface again on "The Man Trap" episode used by exo-anthropologist Professor Crater.

The Phaser design that was created for ST:TOS is superb looking and second to none.
However, over the years as I seen more and more detailed photos of the Laser Pistol I have come to admire its design too.

"That was the equation!" "Existence!" "Survival must cancel out programming!" ...Ruk.

It is wonderful to see Ted Cassidy have such a prominent role. Ted was a very fine actor but too often was stereotyped playing villains or decent but simple minded lugs due to his height.

He really had the acting chops to do more but rarely got cast in roles that were richer and more challenging for him.

I believe that might have changed had the network picked up the Gene Roddenberry sf pilots "Genesis II"/"Planet Earth."
Ted would have been a regular cast member had either pilot gone to series. I believe the show would have given him a real opportunity to show audiences that he was truly an actor with range and not just a tall gent.

As a fan I wish he had gotten that chance. Ted passed away far too young.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production. Very Happy
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~ Sherry Jackson's revealing costume never failed to get an enthusiastically appreciative response whether it be stunning a noisy commissary into silence when the actress showed it off there, or when it was displayed at a SF convention and the model for it found herself being approached by a large number of men, including Harlan Ellison, trying to secure a date from her.

Note from me: Here's a nice shot of the scene in which Andrea makes out with Nurse Chapel. (Wait . . . when did that happen?
Shocked)


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~ Robert H. Justman personally assembled the episode previews for the series, some of which had specially-recorded narration by William Shatner, as this episode does.

The previews have great value to Star Trek scholars as they are the only filmed source remaining (other than the blooper reels and cutting room film clips in the hands of fans) for alternate takes, cut scenes and other lost deta


Note from me: I like the previews. They make me want to drop everything and watch the episode!


_ TOS 1x07 'What Are Little Girls Made Of?' Trailer


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~ At approximately 35:04, Kirk breaks off a stalactite from the ceiling of the cavern to defend himself against Ruk just before the scene cutaway. (Probably for a commercial break.) When the scene begins again, Kirk is grasping a completely different stalactite with a decidedly phallic appearance. Somehow it made it past the censors.





Note from me: Kirk planned to use the strange rock formation to battle Ruk with a martial arts form called Kock Fu. Wink

~ This is the episode from which the famous blooper reel clip originates featuring Leonard Nimoy and his son Adam Nimoy (who later went on to direct Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (1992) and Star Trek: The Next Generation: Timescape (1993)) with Vulcan ears on.
Note from me: I'm glad that Adam Nimoy is a filmmaker.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the Nitpicker's Guide

Dr. Korby attempts to allay Nurse Chapel's fears (his fiancee) when she meets the stunning android Andrea.

Korby assures Christine that androids are incapable of love.

Well...isn't he an android? Doesn't he think that he can love?

My thought on this was that while Korby was an android; there once existed a human being Korby. In order to survive the brutal conditions on the planet Exo III and lack of supplies, the human being Korby used the incredible machinery created by the 'Old Ones' in order to construct an android body that looked exactly like the human Roger Korby. He then transferred his memories and personality into the duplicate android body.

Andrea, as far as we know, was only an android construct. She was not ever a living being who then had her personality transferred into the android Andrea.

So Korby would see himself as a human being inhabiting a machine body; he would view Andrea as totally a mechanical object.

Apparently the United Federation of Planets did not think much of the 'Old Ones' technology discovered by Korby. There is no indication in later episodes of the feature films that the Federation ever made it back to Exo III and integrated this android making tech into the UFOP.

Note from me. Ah yes, an age old problem with many sci~fi television series. The plot of some episode reveals some astonishing technological or biological development...and then we never hear or see it again in later episodes.

What were its ramifications?

The other issue at hand is that the discovery of some form of tech would be the solution for the plot of a future episode. Problem with that of course is that then it could solve that later episode's dilemma so fast that you end up not having any episode at all.

Kirk successfully attacks Korby in one scene by wrapping a binding from a chair around Korby's neck.

Korby coughs & sputters as Kirk then flees from the room.

How come? According to this episode, these androids don't have to breathe. And they are powerful machines. Why would a cord around Korby's neck cause him so much difficulty?

Note from me. Wouldn't Korby and his assistant Brown have built their respective android selves to be faster, more agile, and more powerful than their former human selves?

Me: Interesting that androids cannot detect other androids at all. Andrea uses her phaser on the android Kirk who she thinks is the human Kirk and vaporizes him.

Wouldn't you think that such highly sophisticated machines would contain sensors and scanners that could tell the difference between a living being and an automaton?

Me: Aren't these scientific expeditions ridiculously small?
Just Korby and Brown comprised the scientists investigating this entire world? Were there others but they died due to the harsh conditions and lack of supplies?

On "The Man Trap" we see the researchers for the dead world M-113 are Robert and Nancy Crater. That's it. Two scientists for an entire world.

We have much larger groups doing archaeological investigations and at the poles here on Earth.

Why can the Federation of Planets which is comprised of many worlds only manage to send out a few folks on missions such as these to explore an entire planet?

Why exactly did this expedition run out of supplies?

Would they not come with full provisions; even more than enough?

Once they arrived at a planet, the star ship transporting 'em there could carry tons of provisions and easily beam it all down.

Come to think of it; why wouldn't an expedition have their very own star ship? It could be parked in orbit around the planet. It could beam people and equipment back and forth from the ship to the planet as needed.

The ship could do extensive and deep scans of the planet to accumulate data for the mission assignment.

The ship could carry a medical bay if anyone is injured or becomes ill.

The ship could safely evacuate the scientists from the planet if some emergency arose.

Depending how far away the planet is from any Federation Star Base, the expedition could file daily reports to be transmitted to a star base.

I realize that having all this would complicate the plot for this episode. There would be far too many safety valves so that Roger Korby & Brown wouldn't have needed help from the Enterprise.

However, it also is highly illogical that the story unfolding as it did for Korby & Brown could come to pass.

But clever writers could come up with a solution as Bruce says. It could a fun challenge to do so.
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