"Star Trek" What Are Little Girls Made Of? (1966)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

James Goldstone

Writers:

Robert Bloch (written by)
Gene Roddenberry (creator)

TV Series:

"Star Trek" (1966)

Original Air Date:

20 October 1966 (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.

Plot Keywords:

Federation | Space | Starship | Computer | Vulcan

Cast

William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
Michael Strong	...	Dr. Roger Korby
Sherry Jackson	...	Andrea
Ted Cassidy	...	Ruk
Majel Barrett	...	Christine Chapel
Nichelle Nichols	...	Uhura
Harry Basch	...	Brown
Vince Deadrick Sr.	...	Mathews (as Vince Deadrick)
Budd Albright	...	Rayburn

Runtime:

50 min | Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Desilu Productions

Trivia:

Crewman Mathews (Vince Deadrick Sr.) is the first actual "red shirt" to be killed in the series. He's pushed into a bottomless pit minutes after beaming down to the planet's surface.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the android Kirk boards the Enterprise and takes a "command pack" he walks out and down to the transporter, but he doesn't have the pack in his hand. (This is because they used a shot from "The Man Trap" to cut costs).

Quotes:

Brown: [showing no emotion after a man has plummeted to his death] Unfortunate. Terribly unfortunate.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bring Back... Star Trek (2009) (TV)

Great Example Of Star Trek's Moral Universe

In "What Little Girls are Made of?", the Enterprise comes in contact with a long-lost brilliant scientist (and Nurse Chapel's old flame), but Captain Kirk suspects that the man is up to no good. This is one of my favorite episodes. It has a very strange title that gives viewers a hint of what the episode is about. It was written by Robert Bloch (the man behind "Psycho"), and this program is important because it is a good example of the kind of stuff Gene Roddenberry was trying to accomplish with the series. The episode is a morality tale that questions humans' readiness for a technological advance society. It is obvious that Roddenberry loved science, but he thought it could be a double-edge sword. That ambivalence towards scientific accomplishments, is a theme that will reappear time and time again throughout the series. Anyhow, this is one of the best episodes of season # 1.