What Are Little Girls Made Of? (TOS)

Season 1 Episode 9

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and then also just the Android thing and and how we’re so afraid of machines but yet we we’re the ones creating them and we’re always we’re always creating them to be like humans and then they then they what do they do they act like humans and they kill us perhaps I could use this as an excuse to
go to those far-off planets with little polka dotted people if necessary and be able to talk about love war and nature of God sex all those things that go to make up the excitement of The Human Condition I’m Captain James Kirk the spot your move Captain Jim Kirk of the Enterprise
what’s going on I’m James these people are my friends and my shipmacity leave my crew alone out of the question James General I’m Captain James Kirk get out of my chair dude get out of it now my greetings and felicitations yet so good of you and your offices to uh drop in absolutely smashing
hey everybody Welcome to humanist Trek it’s a Star Trek podcast about the humanism in Star Trek I’m Sarah Ray and I’m Ali ashmead our kids school is doing stupid fundraisers do you have to do this when I was little yeah yeah I did I did I felt it was terrible at it terribly
shy and that’s that’s hard we did those two I can remember like being at the neighbor’s house that my parents knew these people and I didn’t yeah and then like we’re sitting in the living room going through a little catalog of junk [  ] that nobody wants yeah I hated that that was awful and the school that my kids were in Florida didn’t do that it like one fundraiser A year that’s good and that’s were they selling um it wasn’t even any of that oh it was a uh they called it Rock a walk and it like you sponsor your kid and then that you know the day of that event uh the kids all walk the track oh and every lap they get a ice pop oh cool this is like win win win win yeah essentially you’re donating money to your kids classroom right but then they make it this fun event for the kids to get out and get some exercise and you know I would like that better than selling some candy bars because we’d go to our grandma’s house and guess what my cousins are selling the same [  ] too so like there’s a lot of competition number one and plus I just didn’t like the pressure of having to sell yeah and plus I got to bring home a bunch of chocolate I mean uh you think I’m not gonna eat that
because I I’m gonna eat it as you know I have been unemployed for a while now and when I was looking at jobs I see jobs like that and I’m like nope what like walking to sales yeah like hard coal sailing I’m gonna go knock on people’s doors and try to sell them a solar system uh I can’t do that
no I can’t please don’t work because I don’t like to talk to the people I know and that’s why we have the sign we have out in front of our house yeah but what else is going on with the um fundraisers so my kids are both doing fundraisers for their different schools we’ve gotten like three I think so far
three different like types of whatever ways to get your kid to sell [  ] to make money for the school mm-hmm and is [  ] tax me more and pay for Education right there because there is a
there’s a you know there there is a difference between like the upper and lower class right so like as a kid I’m gonna sell more [  ] if my parents are well off yeah because they’re gonna know other people that are rich and then the poor kid like can’t even buy one damn candy bar to get something I hate them yeah I just I hate these stupid things ask me to fund my kids classroom I will be happy to do it put it on my taxes and I’ve done like done and done yeah can’t they distribute that money to the classrooms um I and my kids not your employee you are you are employing my child to sell candy bars to make you money right they’re pimping out these kids yeah and I feel like you’re not paying them any kind of wages right not providing any kind of safe work space maybe they’re trying I’m not sure what the lesson is if they are trying to teach them A Life Lesson but sometimes you have to do [  ]
for for money that you don’t want to like go to work every day at a shitty job that you hate is that what you’re trying to teach me because but are they just are they not able to opt out at all oh we’ve opted out okay good yeah we don’t do those and good one of the one one of them the course because they come
with you know little prizes and stuff a different once you reach different levels again and colorful and shiny and that makes kids want them the kids who are well off will get all of them and the poor kids will get none of them which is horseshit the only one that we’ve supported and will probably
continue is the book fair right because you get something about you you really get something of value yeah a book yeah right so like those ones we will support those all day long um and I always love the book fair too sorry I had my head stuck in a book but also I recognize that like book fair is
fun for so in Florida we volunteered and by we I mean mostly Becca to do the book fair at our kids school and it’s a K-8 school book fair is great again if you’re well off you know they’re kids that come through and they can’t afford a single book right
and they’re kids that come through and they have Mama gave them the last four dollars they have and the book they want is five right and you have to see like this when you’re volunteering these you people commanding these kids and it just breaks your heart
so most book fair people have like some you know um I’ll buy you a book pick one like what do you want I’ll take care of you yeah um there’s a compassion and empathy that we haven’t had I feel like it’s going getting worse here in this country yeah as the haves
have more and the have-nots have less yeah for sure so I don’t know like the perfect way to fund education right like because even if you do it on my property taxes again the the difference in socioeconomic yeah it’s still the difference is still there yeah
so you know are we basing that funding on are are wealthier districts benefiting more than poor districts and what you know what what do we have in place to balance that Equity out yeah because so
if property taxes are based on the value of your house and then lower values obviously they’re going to be less money going into that school district as opposed to someone like a few percentage of a million dollars that’s a lot of money and they’re getting all of that um so yeah that’s I don’t know how to how
do you even begin to balance that yeah but take my money I guess is the bottom line like don’t don’t make my kids do this [  ] take my money all right well let’s get to the episode that we came to discuss today then it is Star Trek the Original Series season one episode eight what are little girls made of Sir contact with an object it’s moving toward us no visual contact yet reflector is full intensity Collision Course visual contact dominated by ionization effects orange is full stop [Music] we’re on approach to Planet xo3 nurse Chapel is on the bridge and she and Kirk are discussing Roger Corby her old fiancee uh he hasn’t checked in in like five years and may or may not be alive on the planet his last communication said something about underground Caverns but they sent a couple of search parties and they were unable to find him right Spock gives us some stats about the planet pretty much Earth-like except that the temperatures are 100 below zero here we go another freezer another prison pale in it and the sun in this system is dying too and the planet just keeps getting colder and colder maybe those planets are in the same system and then uhurus suddenly gets an unexpected reply on the radio it’s Dr Corby he’s alive and well Corby and part of his party are still alive having discovered underground ruins Kirk’s about to tell him that his old flame is a board and they’re all ready to beam down but Corby asks Kirk to come alone because they’ve made discoveries he said they’ve made discoveries that may require an extraordinary decision by Kirk so he really thinks a lot of himself yeah now I know the history for Corby was that he was like a legend at Starfleet Academy and that he his research and finding whatever findings he did revolutionize their immunization Technologies so like Kirk wants to meet the guy because he’s like yeah it’s up to him yeah Chapel gets a chance to say hello Here and Now Roger’s really pleased to hear her voice and so he agrees to let Kirk and Chapel come down together right but only those two I don’t know if you caught this or not but as they leave the bridge Uhura and Chapel share this I did girl I’m so excited for you I did like kiss on the cheeks I thought it was really sweet it was like I’m so glad I caught it because it’s in the background yeah you you got to be well and it’s just a quick Panda I was like women supporting women and I thought that I love that right there’s also I don’t know if you caught this something else I noticed on the bridge but there’s um when they’re getting news or they’re talking to Corby um there’s a a man looks like he’s in like a dressing gown or about pajamas or something oh the jumpsuit guy yeah the jumpsuit guy and he’s standing next to another black female officer I was like and they’re just standing there looking happy for um nurse Chapel I just thought that was interesting but like I don’t know who the [  ] these people and you never see him again just some extras yeah yeah when they when they kissed on the cheek on the way
by I got to thinking like we all know that Star Trek made history with the first interracial kiss on TV why wasn’t it this one is it because it was two women is it because it was platonic yeah is it because it wasn’t on the lips I don’t know that is weird it’s got to
be a man and a woman to count wow apparently well it’s probably because it wasn’t sexual yeah that’s probably what it was because it was platonic yeah yeah but I don’t know that’s a good point down on the planet the the wide shot here looked like something out of National Geographic
Channel and then they go to the close-up and it’s like oh it’s the foam Rock so they painted them white yes yes it’s totally but this set was actually really cool because there was like more of it and I was like I’m digging this I’m taking the set because they’re like underground so it made to look like
caves and [  ] right and we won’t even talk about the Stalag types yes we will it’s in my notes just just for the listeners like Sarah and I do not watch this together we watch it separately but we both have like these we think alike yeah so I know what you’re thinking things are the same yep so they beam in next to this window looking outside but corby’s nowhere to be found Kirk radio Spock and asks for a couple of red shirts just in case and Kirk’s reassuring Chapel like everything’s probably fine it may have just taken him longer to get here than he thought it would you know maybe he caught some traffic on the interstate the red shirts be men we have Matthews and Rayburn yep so Kirk chapel and Matthews descend down into this Cavern and Chapel slips and knocks a rock down and it bangs against the wall for a really long time and good catch by Kurt like he got her like just in time so you know that this is like a really deep whatever it is yeah and so he does tell the other one he tells Rayburn to stay behind um at the entrance yeah and leaving a red shirt alone is never a good idea no we’re taking one with you isn’t even a good idea being a red shirt is not a great idea uh the score in this episode I thought was really really fantastic we get some like really tense music building throughout this entire sequence and then it ends and that bright light comes on yeah and the music swells and then this figure steps in front of the light that whole sequence of music I thought was just really really good it’s it’s definitely getting a lot better and I think the reason is like this episode is actually number 10 in in production so I think they’d work some [  ] out by then because I thought I thought this
whole episode was actually it was really good so first Chapel thinks that this shadowy figure is Corby but it turns out to be brown one of corby’s assistants and which is Nick his nickname is brownie brownie we hear some screams from above Matthews fell from a high place oh my God they’ve killed Matthews
and brown tells us that the hole is bottomless yeah okay I have at least one problem with this if the hole is bottomless it would have to come out the other side of the planet right right I guess I suppose no it would go into well it would go into the molten core
there’s like then and that’s the bottom okay okay how how can I think how can a thing be bottomless but I’m assuming we’re assuming Earth but this is a different planet so we don’t know things might work differently yeah that’s a good point I don’t know yeah so
like if it did go all the way through would Matthews just like keep falling through the hole and then come out the other side it could just be floating around then with gravity would work differently I think he would just float in the middle as we just hold him like near the floor yeah
anyway I know tangent but when he falls they show a very large menacing figure creeping away it’s lurch [Music] it is it’s Lurch I loved him Theodore Crawford Cassidy he’s the actor that played lurch for Madam’s family everybody knows
surely everyone knows that um but maybe not depending on how old our listeners are but he’s like he’s six nine and he has a deep voice and he’s just he’s he’s in a lot of stuff you know he got jobs just because of that he had a condition called acromegaly okay which is responsible for
his height and his size and his facial structure and his deep voice he also played in several other you’ll see him again in Star Trek because he really yeah he he played the Gorn what yeah he was the Gorn oh no [  ] yep well that’s cool yeah so and a couple of other roles as well yeah so we’ll see him again he’s a real that guy yeah kind of like Doug Jones is saru because he’s so tall and he’s got a very unique physique that you know who else can play that role so Lurch is creeping up around the top of this shaft and we get an early indication something else isn’t quite right here Brown doesn’t seem to recognize Chapel at first so Kirk checks in with Rayburn tells him to radio the Enterprise and have a security detail ready to come down if they lose communication but Lurch is sneaking up behind Rayburn and takes him out oh my God you bastards he puts his his whole hand there’s a whole hand over his head his face so yeah poor Rayburn I mean that was quick though too those red shirts didn’t even last like 15 minutes into the episode Brown explains to Kirk and Chapel that the inhabitants of the world moved underground Dr Corby had a theory that the freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit and this planet’s culture proved his theory when they moved from the light of the Overworld into the darkness of the underworld they replaced Freedom he says with a mechanistic culture which means robots robots robots so they go into a room in a beautiful hot brunette babe here Andrea comes in I would cosplay her too if not for mine that outfit was fantastic for my body image issue oh well me too I got rolls I got rolls I can’t wear that I mean I could but I don’t want to do that to people yeah can I go back in time to when I was 20 right maybe and do do it then but then it’s fear it’s weird because when I was 20 I still didn’t like my body and I wouldn’t have worn it and I wish I’d give me anything I’d give me anything to have that body now um but yeah yeah well I felt very strongly about my body 20. yeah it was definitely the wrong one nurse Chapel the way she was looking at like who who the [  ] is this [  ] like who is she and then Corby comes in a few beats later and he has this like reunion makeout session I know Chapel it was like tongue and it was a lot yeah it was it was a lot and brown mentions that they’d lost a red shirt and Corby is apologetic but when Kirk tries to radio Rayburn there’s no reply right and so the protocol would be that Kirk radio the Enterprise but Brown pulls a ray gun and Andrea moves in on Kirk but he pulls her in and grabs the taser from her hand it looked like a little TV remote control or something or one of those like tiny little flip-flops but yeah Corby ordered Andrea to to take the communicator from like what is this little girl put in that little girl but she’s tiny compared to to Kirk she’s not dressed in any type of security uniform that is not a security uniform like why would you order this woman anyway and then Kirk does this weird tuck and roll move oh my I wrote it for some reason I’m like this makes no sense they put it in here and it makes a sense so as Andrea’s trying to take the communicator from Kirk he grabs her and uses her as a shield and inches over to the door then next thing you know he pushes her that way and then he does a tuck and a roll and he’s got like a whole five to six seconds nothing nobody’s shooting at him it looks ridiculous and then he goes behind the behind a table Yeah and then tells Brown to drop it brownie doesn’t drop it oh my God mechanical Dr Brown bastards the door opens behind Kirk and a very lucky person like tell us this is Kirk like a a 12 year old child yeah like a like a seventh grade bully holding a kid up against the line I know right so then in nurse chapel and Dr Corby look back and they see brownie laying there with a hole in his stomach and all kinds of like circuits poking out and burning he Brown wasn’t really Brown after all Kirk radios the Enterprise Spock was getting worried since they hadn’t checked in and we hear Kirk telling him no everything’s fine but then the camera cuts the Kirk on the planet and he’s not speaking Lurch is holding the communicator doing a Kirk impression and let me just say he did an excellent job at the lip sync yeah I’m like excellent yeah that’s a difficult thing to especially with 1960s technology yeah that’s a difficult thing to nail the timing on he nailed to do a great job nailed it as as Kirk he’s telling Spock he’s like well we’ll be we’ll return in within 48 hours and Dr Corby specimen will require special packing but Spock just I don’t know Spock just knows everything he’s like he just feels like something’s off he’s like are you are you feeling all right you sound tired or something I don’t know um and he’s like yep I’m I’m good talk to you later bye um perk out so Lurch does some more Impressions but when he does Christine’s voice Corby gets kind of pissed off and he’s like you do not mock her you do not harm her and then Kirk throws in and you’re not to disobey her orders and he agrees he’s like yeah I feel like Kirk was so ahead of the game here in this episode because in the other previous episodes they were just bumbling through and he wasn’t wise or thinking out like a captain and here he’s coming into calculating and yeah for sure for sure so we find out here that Lurch was programmed to protect corby’s experiments and so he killed both of the red shirts against corby’s wishes he claims Lurch says that he was left there by the old ones so he’s an OG Android oh gee much more complex than brown was it’s at this point Kirk’s hurt enough enough to know that corby’s dangerous and he tries to make a run for the door but Lurch grabs him lifts him up and like like a [  ] WWF flings him across the room yeah and this dude is is he is six nine I mean that’s pretty big meanwhile Andrea comes in to chat with Chapel she doesn’t understand why Christine is unhappy Christine’s worried about Kirk
and then in comes Corby Kirk and Lurch Corby says nobody else will be harmed he just needs time to explain Andrea’s also an Android Chapel’s got some major jealousy going on here but Corby says look she’s just a computer emotionless and to demonstrate that he has Andrea kiss Kirk and then
slap him no emotion yeah but Kirk’s not convinced yet if they just respond to programming why did Brown try to shoot him and why did Lurch kill the red shirts even though he was programmed not to right and Corby says okay fine I’ll answer all your questions now just give me 24 hours
in every show like that has an Android they always say oh they don’t have any feelings right then they somehow evolve I don’t know because it’s it’s funny that people who these people in these shows that want to make an Android want to have their cake and eat it too they want a human-like person but not human
right the next scene was confusing to me because we cut from this to they go into the room where they’re making the Androids and he takes Chapel with him into that room and like in a few beats we find that Kirks on this table right but going into the scene you
didn’t know that you didn’t know that Kirk had been strapped downstairs down to the table or incapacitated or whatever right the table is divided the first thing we see is like Lurch putting this his big foam foam body shape human shaped but it’s like a blank nothing into the other side of the table this
was an interesting uh set choice because like you could have done you know Frankenstein style had the two beds next to each other with wires between them and his head like they could have done that like this was a choice then it was just a spinning table it was yeah and no no wires connected good point good point
I’m like how what does that do does it’s a centrifuge right isn’t that what they’re called yeah you spin it and it separates yeah yeah I don’t yeah what’s the ride at the um oh I love that [  ] ride I love that right oh I hate that right I love it yes and you’re stuck to the wall no and you’re I was I remember wearing earrings and my earrings are pulling like long earrings and I’m like this is awesome but like I hated that ride but put me on like um uh roller coaster now uh I mean I’ll still go but I might get sick but I love the spinning I love spinning that’s crazy Andrea twists some knobs Andrea the table starts turning and there we find out it’s Kirk lying on the table after the commercial the table starts spinning real fast like and eventually they sped up the film so fast that like even with the little strap thing they had over the that body would have been flying out of it yeah it looked like he was naked I don’t know maybe he had on it did any opportunity to get Bill out of his shirt you know because I mean I mean he had a smooth trust I don’t know if he shaved it but he was always like completely smooth yeah so Kirk on one side foam body on the other and it just spins in faster and faster and faster until the foam body turns into another Kirk curvy challenges Chapel to pick out the real Kirk and she can’t tell them apart Corby says once the mental patterns are copied over then the Android could even replace Kirk yeah Kirk’s lying on the table listening to all of this of course and he starts muttering this mind your own business Mr Spock I’m sick of your half-breed interference yeah I knew exactly what he was doing then this is him again thinking ahead of and I I love it I love it it doesn’t keep him out of trouble but at least he’s thinking because the other previous episodes they seem to just be so naive and I’m like all right I’ll see you I see you Kirk well we recently had an episode with two very different versions of Kirk right the evil and the good and then this one you have again completely perks that are essentially identical except for this moment where he hears that he’s going to have his memory transferred into the Android that he’s he’s like I’m gonna say this thing so that it transfers and print it over because this is that’s something he would never say never Chapel asked Kirk if he’s all right and he’s like yeah I’m fine whatever and then Kirby spins the table around and says now meet an Android this is how we make an Android this is how we do it this is how we do it later Andrea seats Chapel at a table where she serves some food and Kirk comes in the entire scene I kept thinking wait is this the real Kirk or is this is this the Android Kirk yep because he’s dressed in the Starfleet uniform right so I thought it was Kirk I didn’t even right think anything about it they have a conversation about Corby like is he sane and Chapel insists that he is Corby and he is sane Kirk asks if he gave her a direct order to betray him would she and she’s like please don’t put me in that situation she’d rather die she said yeah and it’s not long before my suspicions are confirmed Corby enters with the real Kirk now and I that’s when I was like ah [  ] it got they got me they got me now they’ve dressed so the Android is in the Starfleet uniform and Kirk is wearing that blue and green outfit that all of the people on this planet wear yeah we get a really fun like Kirk versus Kirk conversation yeah
that I thought was executed it’s kind of well it’s kind of petty he’s like he’s like well you’ll never know what the food tastes like it’s like because I’m I don’t need to eat I’m not I will never be hungry he’s like and then and then the real Kirk said something else and he’s like well Lisa I won’t starve like
okay Petty much Corby dismisses Android Kirk and says you haven’t guessed the rest and then he goes into an evil monologue about what he really wants to do is to start transferring people’s whole consciousnesses into Android bodies essentially giving humans immortality see the evil people always
just be talking too much just shut the [  ] up telling us your evil plan thanks okay you know now we need to kill you so he goes on like we could eliminate jealousy and greed and hate no disease no deformities and Kirk’s not buying it though and as Corby is asking for help to get to another planet that has the right resources Kirk starts discreetly like he reaches down to the side of his chair like untying something on the chair that’s holding the legs together he’s always just this scheming good for you good for you so Corby says he created Android Kirk to impress Kirk not replace him and Kirk pounces on him pulling that cord around he’s trying to choke him yeah Lurch jumps in to try to save him but Corby tells him to stand down and Kirk uses Kirby like a shield like a body Shield backing up to the door and as he exit exits he lets go of Corby and kind of pushes him back into the room yep and he races into the caverns Corby instructs Lurch to protect and Lurch goes after Kirk Chapel checks on Roger and then follows Lurch instructing him in a stop she’s like remember Corby said you have to obey what I’m saying yep so yeah they’re running through the caverns and playing the little hide and seek thing among the stalactites and stalagmites anybody that’s watched Star Trek will know what what happens next if you’re new to the series welcome Kirk reaches up and grabs a hold of this stalactite and kind of gives it a shake yeah and it breaks free it’s big and it’s big holding a giant penis yes exactly like a penis he’s hiding behind a wall gripping this penis and Lurch comes in he’s like using Chapel voice yeah throwing his voice I think Kirk still just kind of knows this not him but he says I’m over here is that you Christine or something and gets lurched to come over but Lurch easily like deflects this and he grabs a hold of the penis too and they struggle for a bit until Kirk ends up hanging from a rock like with his legs dangling down in that bottomless pit right and Lurch stands over him menacingly and we get suspense music to commercial after the commercial lurch’s face gets very confused looking yeah and like he’s trying to decide something yeah like yeah yeah very contemplative I guess and he but he reaches down and picks up Kirk and pulls him out of the pit back on the Enterprise Android Kirk walks through a door and goes past Spock and spot calls out for him but Kirk’s ignoring him and he enters his quarters and spots like hot on his heels there’s a bit of character work here that lets us as the audience know and hopefully Spock know that this isn’t Kirk right remember on the spinny table when Kirk was muttering [  ] about Spock being
annoying Half Breed here Kirk’s getting some stuff from a cabinet and when Spock’s like wait you’re you’re going back down with the command packet right and Kirk responds angrily mind your own business Mr Spock I’m sick of your half-breed interference and that was the message yeah but then
he follows that up with why do you look so angry Spock because it’s like because he didn’t understand that that was something that would make him angry he just when the the personality imprint or transfer happened it was um I guess it was a genius moved by Kirk to do that yeah to embed this
like false belief yep yeah yeah and of course Spock like you can’t fool him you cannot fool that man nope I want a dude like Spock man yeah he’s just yeah down on the planet Android Kirk has a suitable planet to relocate this operation too but he says he felt quite at home on the Enterprise
Andrea comes into real Kirk’s room and Kirk commands her to kiss him and then she tries to also slap him but he blocks her grabs her so hard you can see finger marks on her skin did you notice this no hold on I took a screenshot oh wow when he pulls his hand away there is like a hand print oh my in
this poor girl’s skin he was cold in her he said she’s really red I mean dang yeah poor girl so but he grabs her and kisses he lays one on her like like this is like classic Kirk womanizing Kirk and he lays one on her and she’s she’s shook yeah she
eventually stops him and she’s like I’m not programmed for you yeah but she was obviously you know she’s feeling something yeah she was confused yeah there was definitely emotion happening there yep as she tries to leave again Kirk grabs her arm and brushes the hair from her face
and he’s like what’s the matter are you confused he tries to follow her into the Hall but Lurch shoves him back in was that emotion we saw lurch Lurch says to maintain your existence would be illogical and Kirk counters why but Lurch can’t figure that out can’t solve that problem yep so Kirk asks what
happened to the old ones and suggests that perhaps the creation outgrew the Creator logical machines demanding order frustrated by the emotional feeling illogical Mortals and Lord Lord says yeah the old ones became fearful of them and started
turning them off so we killed them so we killed them Kirk says but right but isn’t Corby doing the very same thing to you right now so they go back and forth a little bit here and it shakes out this equation from lurch’s memory Banks survival he says survival must cancel out
programming and Kirk turns Lurch against Corby here he says it’s logic you can’t protect someone who’s trying to destroy you to puts him into kind of a logic Loop yep does not compute you know you know we know what happens when a blue screen of death
I’m so glad those don’t come nearly as frequently as they did in Windows 95 or whatever yeah Windows 95 and or yeah before that before yeah in comes Corby and Lurch is like you did this you brought these people here we’d written ourselves of this biological plague but you brought it back and he’s
he’s like moving towards Corby when Corby pulls out a phaser and obliterates Lurch is gone oh my God Kirby leads Kirk and Chapel down the hall at gunpoint and as they enter the room Kirk does that you know thing where you come in the room and you whip around and you try to get your attacker or
whatever but he gets he gets pushed away and now we see the truth Corby is an Android too he’s got a piece of his skin that’s like it’s hanging off revealing all that Tech underneath so Corby tries to convince Chapel that it’s still him inside
he had no choice he was freezing to death it was a survival thing yeah and you know he says like it’s I’m the same as before maybe even better so then then we get into that like improving on the species thing that we’ve talked about a few times in this season so far but it always
it usually involves like taking out emotion but then that’s part of being human and when you are trying to copy someone’s brain like our emotions that’s where all that comes from it’s not really in your chest although you know what like we always think oh I feel it here in your chest it’s all actually
happening in your head in your brain a panel on the wall starts beeping there’s somebody at the outer Junction Kirk assumes it’s Spock having received his message Corey orders and Andrea to get a weapon and protect and when she comes out of the room there’s Kirk
she says I will kiss you and he’s like nope that’s a lot that would be a lot logical yeah and she’s like so she’s just she blows him away oh my God an Android Captain Kirk you meanwhile Corby is still explaining that he transferred his whole Consciousness
into this Android body Andrea walks in saying that Kirk has somehow freed himself but there stands Kirk oops he’s standing there with chapel and she’s like ah [  ] I killed Android Kirk by mistake damn so Kirk tries to do another one of those little logic fights where like you killed Android Kirk just like you killed Android lurch like is this the perfect people is this the perfect world you you claim to be wanting this is this what you want Corby starts stuttering like Napster on Windows 98 trying to download a song oh those were the days and he pleads with Christine but she’s like everything you’ve done has proved this isn’t you not who you really are not who I know who you were right Kirk tells him to prove his Humanity by handing over the gun which he eventually does takes a takes a minute but he’s like shutting down now and Kirk orders Andrea to hand over the gun but she’s like no protect and she moves towards Corby talking about protecting him loving him kissing him but she’s an Android and she’s not even supposed to have all that emotion but she was in love with him yeah she was in love with Corby he’s like no you can’t love you’re not human and as she kisses him he pulls the trigger on the gun and they fry them both yep gone like suicide oh my God they’ve killed Andrea and Dr Corby you bastards Chapel is hit with some hard grief here too oh she’s she’s like someone like literally punched her in the stomach she was that was some good acting I felt that I [  ] felt bad she was punched right it wasn’t Dr Corby but it was Dr Corby but she still had all those feelings for him yeah but you know she he disappeared so when someone
disappears you never really grieve right until and this was just the death finally fine closure yeah so Spock ends up coming in with the security force and [  ] everyone’s gone except I mean because everyone’s gone except um Kirk and nurse chapel and when Spock asks about Dr corby’s whereabouts Kirk does that look up past the camera and he’s like Dr Corby was never here in the button on the episode we’re on the bridge Kirk and Chapel are chatting Chapel says thank you for letting me make the decision I’m certain I’m doing the right thing and as she walks away Kirk tells Spock she’s staying with the ship yay so I guess there was a moment there where that was in question yeah we didn’t get to see that that would have been that would have been fun to see yeah Spock tells Kirk he was dismayed by the use of the term Half Breed finally somebody in this show is saying it yeah it’s it was he said it was a primitive I forget what he said and this unsophisticated expression yeah yeah nice see they’re learning you know just like we’re doing this podcast and evolving right like Star Trek it they had to start somewhere and then they’re evolving and learning as they go and I’m I’m loving it so I pulled out a couple of things here freedom of movement and choice produced to the human Spirit was a quote in this episode that I thought was really trying to like they started out trying to make that the point of the episode that you would kind of carry that thought with you throughout yep that was the whole reason or the downfall of That civilization and the rise of the machine rise of the Machines survival must cancel out programming and to me this I started thinking like is it enough to Simply exist yeah your program do you exist or even to survive like what about thriving yeah we’re programmed from the youngest of Ages to comply with instructions ultimately in this capitalist hellscape to enter the workforce and be productive yeah spend our entire lives being prepared to become worse in the machine isn’t there more to living than that yeah there is yeah and I think we’re seeing now that people are wanting more um than just a nine-to-five job and working for the man and they want fulfillment they want mental health awareness because like that [  ] matters and I do love the way that Jane brings the stuff to the Forefront yeah
and then also just the Android thing and and how we’re so afraid of machines but yet we we’re the ones creating them and we’re always we’re always creating them to be like humans and then they then they what do they do they act like humans and they kill us yeah so it’s it’s it’s actually pretty genius we we
love since you know the earliest of technology I I guess we’ve started this fascination with like the idea of building robots that you know take us over rise up against us so it’s like that comes back in sci-fi a lot that’s a it’s a thing that over the years we have thought about and
questioned and played what if with some topic we’ve seen so many iterations of this and I’m like I think I’ve seen it all I don’t know how they can do oh it’s another Android movie or another Android show I can’t be impressed but then they find a way to like do another spin on it yeah yeah this one was a different very
different spin yeah and I enjoyed that yeah it was good well then now it’s time to honor the dead dead [Music] everything we are assembled here today final respects to our honored day
oh goodness we had a pretty high body count this one but yes let’s let’s talk about the dead may they all rest in peace Rayburn and Matthews may they rest in peace beaming down to the planet with a red uniform fleece Rayburn was tossed into a bottomless
chasm and Matthews was choked by the Android Rook until he spasmed but then we have Dr Brown corby’s faithful assistant Kirk blasted a hole in him and although he was an Android he wasn’t phaser resistant
Kirk plays the Mind Games with rook and helped him to see that Corby is not all he’s cracked up to be Rook turns on Corby and Corby fearing for his life shoots Rook with a phaser and puts out his light Andrea iced Port Android Kirk with a phaser and he was only a few hours old
if only he’d kissed her he’d still be alive truth be told love this so I’m so sad about Andrea the pretty Android who took Christine’s man she died in a passionate embrace with Corby with a phaser in her hand but Dr Corby was the one who pulled the trigger as if having the last say but
that’s okay he was an Android anyway may they all rest in peace I love that that’s wonderful I love the little rhyme sing-song honoring of the Dead I thought I would add a little keep it up a notch yeah yeah I assume you’re loitering around here to learn what efficiency rating I plan to give your
Cadets praise to the briefing room is that all you gotta say what about my performance aren’t you dead I don’t believe this was a fair test of my command abilities there was no way to win there’s no correct resolution it’s a test of character now what is that supposed to mean I am understandably
may I ask you a question who’s been holding up the damn elevator all right so let’s bring Becca back in for the exciting answer to last week’s Starfleet Academy Cadet challenge last time on humanistrek you asked us during filming of this episode what was happening behind the scenes that should
have been completed well before filming started I don’t even remember what I guess I don’t either I I’m sure it was wrong but I don’t remember I don’t have anything for you I don’t think you had again is it maybe like a Union contract or something or can some kind of construction I didn’t I didn’t type any
guesses which is weird because usually I do that is weird foreign all right well put us out of our misery what’s the answer the script for this episode was in such bad shape that Gene Roddenberry had to make revisions simultaneously while filming the episode
and for some scenes shooting had to wait until new pages arrived incorrect oh wow damn I think I’ve heard that story before I didn’t know it was this episode huh I’m trying to think where there were some there was once the part in there where Andrea comes in
and Christine says where’s Kirk and then next thing you know Kirk’s in the room it was a little bit disconnected but good one what was the answer oh my God are you that 80. if the script wasn’t done that’s right wasn’t done so like maybe they were just
making [  ] up as they went along wow okay let’s get the question then for next week’s episode Miri which I don’t remember anything about oh okay good you’re not gonna know any of these answers I’m great this is a three point what answer we got points yeah and I’m gonna tell you why because you have the opportunity to earn up to three points for this answer I know I’m gonna change things up okay okay you’ll understand why okay when I ask the question this episode has three separate connections to The Andy Griffith Show what are they oh for [  ] sake I don’t
know um I’ve I’ve seen it I’ve seen this episode yeah I haven’t seen it in a while I know there’s one actor there’s an I don’t know there’s maybe one actor there’s a bunch of kids maybe some part of the cast
that’s one of the the sets did something about that maybe one of them that’s okay that’s a connection it’s got to be one of the actors one of the sets yeah and then something else hmm [Music] hmm I guess you’ll have to wait and find
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