Tonight's episode is What Are Little Girls Made Of? My guess is that it won't be sugar and spice and everything nice. We start out in a promising fashion. Once again the Enterprise is looking for a lost scientist who has made startling discoveries but seems to have been lost for years. Spoilers, blah, blah, jump.
For the first time we have a good shot at some redshirt deaths. After being told to beam down the planet alone, Kirk notifies the missing sciencey man that his wife is along as well, and the two of them are invited to beam down and meet the missing Dr Corby. After reaching the planet's surface and finding no one to meet them, Kirk calls for back up. Two security men... in red shirts!
Of course, being the idiot that is necessary for people to get killed and heighten the tension, Kirk immediately has them split up, leaving one behind and taking one with him. Sure enough, they find a scientist and the redshirt with them falls into a bottomless pit that was lying conveniently about. We get a glimpse of a strange alien figure, the scientist is a long-time assistant of Dr Corby who strangely doesn't recognize his wife right away, and Kirk begins to brood. Not over his own idiocy, of course, but about the oddness happening. He won't figure it out until the third act, though, no matter how obvious.
Wow, that was quick. The ominous alien moved up and killed the other redshirt right away.
And now they're being told about how the aliens turned despotic when they moved underground.
Holy schnikes! I didn't think they let people wear so little on television in those days. It's also quite clear that it was... uh, cold on the set. *ahem*
So the alien is a super-powerful android that kills intruders, Corby thinks he controls it despite the fact that it has killed against his wishes and Kirk decides that he can defeat it and escape by brute force. If that's as smart as he is, then he does probably have better odds that way rather than using his intelligence. As a side note, whoever they got to play the android is a pretty big dude. (I looked it up, it was Ted Cassidy; he also played Lurch from The Addams Family.)
Corby also didn't seem to anticipate that his super-hot, scantily clad android would bother his wife. And then we set up the fact that the android will be jealous at the end of the episode.
And now, making an android duplicate of Kirk provides Shatner's excuse for stripping down to his altogether for this episode. Perhaps we'll have a Mexican stand-off with Kirk and the duplicate and his crew.
Awesome, Kirk finally uses his head. He thinks about saying really insulting things to Spock right before they copy his brain.
It's as you would think, the classic episode that argues about liberty. I do like how he lumps in a few fictional names along with Caesar, Genghis Khan and Hitler. Ferris and Maltuvus.
Kirk breaks off a piece of styrofoam rock that looks like an enormous phallus during his next escape attempt. It's kinda disturbing. Foreshadowing? He starts using his super-sexy powers on the female android; apparently no woman, robot, human or alien can resist Kirk's libido.
And the twist is that they're all robots. And the ending doesn't make any sense. No sense at all. Weak.
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