History Recap / StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf

* SexBot: Hinted at -- Chapel is clearly suspicious of Korby's motives in building a robot assistant in the shape of a half-dressed attractive young woman, and Korby doesn't help matters by rhapsodising about how life-like she is. (This is a case where broadcast standards may have made things worse, since Korby can't properly deny the implication that he's making time with the machine maid without making the implication explicit; all he's able to do is deny that he ''loves'' Andrea, which still leaves a number of unsavoury possibilities open.) Korby is driven to suicide once Andrea makes it obvious that she has feelings for him.

* {{Robosexual}}: Possibly-- Chapel is clearly suspicious of Korby's motives in building a robot assistant in the shape of a half-dressed attractive young woman, and Korby doesn't help matters by rhapsodising about how life-like she is. (This is a case where broadcast standards may have made things worse, since Korby can't properly deny the implication that he's making time with the machine maid without making the implication explicit; all he's able to do is deny that he ''loves'' Andrea, which still leaves a number of unsavoury possibilities open.) Korby is driven to suicide once Andrea makes it obvious that she has feelings for him.
-->'''Korby:''' Remarkable, isn't she? Notice the lifelike pigmentation, the variation in skin tones. The flesh has warmth. There's even a pulse, physical sensation.
-->'''Chapel:''' [[SarcasmMode How convenient.]]

* RoboticReveal: No fewer than ''five'' times, if we count both visual instances (Dr. Brown and Korby) and verbal ones (Ruk, Andrea, and the android Kirk).

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: {{Averted}}; the deaths of Andrea and Korby are presented as unequivocally tragic (admittedly, partly because Chapel hadn't even begun to work through her feelings about Korby by that point). Meanwhile, Kirk emphatically describes them as being ''killed'', rather than destroyed.

* BoomerangBigot: Part of Korby's logic bomb is that he casually killed Ruk off, dismissing him as JustAMachine. Only Korby is also an android now, and Andrea starts to show the beginning of emotions. So either the original Dr. Korby had some blind spots in his morality, [[MortonsFork or]] Robo!Korby is an imperfect android copy of the original that merely thinks its Dr.Korby.
* BrainUploading: Dr. Korby can create a robotic clone of a person where the consciousness is preserved in the robot body and in fact has uploaded himself to a robotic body.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Android Kirk wears Kirk's uniform to impersonate him, while the real Kirk is given a green and blue jumpsuit. Even then Andrea mistakes android Kirk for the real one and disintegrates him.
* CombatPragmatist: Kirk has no problem grabbing Andrea as a HumanShield; this is before the first RoboticReveal so he still thinks she's a normal woman. However he discards her the moment he's close to cover.
* CommercialBreakCliffhanger: Kirk is in a LiteralCliffhanger, and Ruk hasn't acknowledged Chapel's order that he not be killed, [[AIIsACrapshoot making it look like he's going to finish our hero off]]. However after the ad break he pulls Kirk to safety instead.

* TheFogOfAges: Ruk has been tending to the machines in the caverns for so long he has forgotten what happened to his creators. The trouble stirred up by Kirk's presence reminds him.

* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: The Korby that they encounter is an android that's been imprinted with the real Korby's memories and personality. Over the course of the episode it's made clear that the duplication wasn't perfect (certain personality traits have been warped and twisted), so we don't have a complete picture of what the real one was like.

** First, he arranges for the EvilKnockoff Korby creates to make a racist insult to Mr. Spock, causing an OutOfCharacterAlert.

* MsFanservice: Andrea. Quite beautiful, and wearing a "top" that just looks like it's going to fall off if she so much as breathes wrong (though being an android, it's questionable if she has to worry about that).

* {{Precursors}}: The "Old ones," an ancient civilization left Ruk and other technologies in the underground caverns.
* ProperlyParanoid: Kirk is told to ComeAlone, so he has Chapel verify it's Korby's voice before beaming down with her. When Korby isn't there to greet him, he calls for two redshirts and after one of them is killed orders a security team put on standby. Unfortunately the second redshirt is {{Neck Snap}}ped before he can relay the order.

* ReluctantMadScientist: Dr. Korby would cure humanity of all its problems if only he could change all humans to robots. Multiple times he tries to convince a non-cooperative Kirk of his vision.
* {{Robosexual}}: Possibly--Chapel is clearly suspicious of Korby's motives in building a robot assistant in the shape of a half-dressed attractive young woman, and Korby doesn't help matters by rhapsodising about how life-like she is. (This is a case where broadcast standards may have made things worse, since Korby can't properly deny the implication that he's making time with the machine maid without making the implication explicit; all he's able to do is deny that he ''loves'' Andrea, which still leaves a number of unsavoury possibilities open.) Korby is driven to suicide once Andrea makes it obvious that she has feelings for him.

* SlapSlapKiss: To demonstrate that Andrea is JustAMachine, he has her kiss then slap Kirk to show she's an EmotionlessGirl either way. Kirk later kisses Andrea again, blocks her slap then gives her a BigDamnKiss.

* {{Transhuman}}: Dr. Korby insists humans would be improved as androids that can be programmed without jealousy, greed and hate, [[{{Immortality}} no deaths]], deformities and even fear replaced with joy.
* TuringTest: Korby is horrified when he realizes that he can't prove he still has a human mind, and indeed when he tries to think of ways to prove it he can only think of things a computer would do.

* TheWorldIsNotReady: Cited by Korby as the reason Kirk should ComeAlone. However it isn't in the usual sense of a scientist deciding not to share this world-changing technology, but him secretly forcing it on humanity whether they want it or not.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Korby, [[TomatoInTheMirror forced to face his lack of humanity and artificial nature, distintegrates both himself and Andrea in the episode's climax.]]

* [[StuntDouble Insert Double]]: The closeup insert shot of Korby's hand reaching for his phaser and pulling the trigger, killing both him and Andrea, was filmed in post-production. Frank da Vinci served as Korby's hand double, while Jeannie Malone stood in for Andrea.

* InsertDouble: The closeup insert shot of Korby's hand reaching for his phaser and pulling the trigger, killing both him and Andrea, was filmed in post-production. Frank da Vinci served as Korby's hand double, while Jeannie Malone stood in for Andrea.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DistractedByTheSexy: ''Inside Franchise/StarTrek: The Real Story'' tells of how during filming, Creator/WilliamShatner took guest star Sherry Jackson to lunch at the commissary while she's wearing a bathrobe, which she took off in the commissary to reveal she was in her costume. [[http://www.eonline.com/resize/600/600/eol_images/Entire_Site/2012717/1024.eo.SherryJackson.AndreaAndroid.StrTrk.081712.jpg It did NOT go unnoticed.]]

* SecondLawMyAss: Ruk is made to remember why his kind killed the Old Ones in apparent violation of the implied Robotic laws in that [[LargeHam inimitable]] Creator/TedCassidy]] [[LargeHam voice]].

* AbsenteeActor: [=McCoy=], Scotty and Sulu don't appear in this episode.

* SecondLawMyAss: Ruk is made to remember why his kind killed the Old Ones in apparent violation of the implied Robotic laws in that [[LargeHam inimitable Ted Cassidy voice]].

-->'''Ruk:''' The Old Ones. The ones who made us. They grew fearful of us. They began to turn us off.... It became necessary to destroy them.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See Robosexual below, but also, Dr. Chapel calls Andrea a "mechanical geisha", as close as BS&P would let them get to saying "SexBot" on 60s TV.
** Either Bob Justman or NBC's Stan Robertson objected to the use of the word "geisha" in this context since it plays into a damaging and misleading stereotype about [[https://people.howstuffworks.com/geisha1.htm a very specific profession]] which is often MistakenForProstitute. They made other suggestions; even "companion" would work with the right emphasis. However, it ended up "geisha" in the final script and Majel [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarks]] the line beautifully.

-->'''Korby:''' Remarkable, isn't she? Notice the lifelike pigmentation, the variation in skin tones. The flesh has warmth. There's even a pulse, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar physical sensation]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Chapel.

* INeverToldYouMyName: Inverted. The first clue that there's something off with Dr. Brown is that he's very slow to recognize Christine and introduces himself as "Dr. Brown" ''after'' she had already referred to him by his name.

* JustAMachine: Korby argues this regarding Andrea to his clearly suspicious wife. He suffers a VillainousBreakdown (or in his case, a [[LogicBomb robotic breakdown]]) on discovering that Andrea does have feelings for him.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The android Kirk is sent to test Chapel's loyalty to her fiancée versus Kirk. When she begs the captain [[ConflictingLoyalty not to make her chose between them]], the 'captain' then reveals that he's an android. Korby then enters with the real Kirk.

* CommercialBreakCliffhanger: Kirk is in a LiteralCliffhanger, and Ruk hasn't acknowledged Chapel's order that he not be killed, [[AIIsACrapshoot making it look like he's going to finish our hero off]]. However after the add break he pulls Kirk to safety instead.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Ruk apparently kills the two redshirts on his own initiative, and is clearly reluctant to obey some of the orders he's given. Kirk picks up on this and incites him into remembering that his kind TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. The androids resented how illogical and inefficient the Old Ones were, and destroyed them to protect themselves when the Old Ones tried to deactivate them.