"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is just dull.
Not just dull, it's also underwhelming.
Chapel is just fawning over a long lost love, who's called "the Pasteur of archaeological medicine", which could have led to a more interesting discussion of how such archaeologists focus on what people of the distant past did to heal themselves, which involves more than a pail of fresh leeches, for which I was going to segue into the TNG clip using leeches as a comedy bit ("Q-Pid" as that's also oddly fitting).
Of course, he's an android now. And because electronics, positronics, or bstronics or whatever don't succumb to the effects of entropy ever, they can go on lasting forever, or at least 500,000 years if we tie in "I, Mudd" recognizing the issue.
Apparently, Kirk has a brother named George, who has a wife and three kids. That wouldn't be related to a tv show called "My Three Sons", now would it? Well, no...
To duplicate a person into a robot body, you put them on a gigantic turntable, leftover from that
Batman production to save on costs, have it spin around, like a record, and then film it at 12fps - so when played back at normal speed, it looks like it's going zippity-quck. In real life, the person strapped in would have their innards sloshed and brain jellified.
Kirk, having read the script, knows he's going to become his own double, so he gambles that the duplicating machine will scan his brain at the wrong moment, hence strongly mentally reciting a specific key phrase. It's not PC, but it's so wild and atypical for Kirk that Spock would be the only one to notice and think it through logically. Even then, if the equipment is oh-so-perfect, then the Captain's mannerisms would have been duplicated and the ruse wouldn't have worked. I mean, most people at that point, if converted not of their own free will, then their duplicate would be as imperfect. And maybe that's the point, since Chapel does question if he's "the real Korby" or not - if that's the "show vs tell" moment that audiences have to put together.
Aww man, free play-doh! Guess what I'll sculpt mine into? And speaking of, sheesh, how many more stalagmites have to look so naughty?! Also, there's only one Rayburn who's memorable:
(Not Gene splicing, Gene cloning, Gane sample, etc? Oh well, no nerds allowed in this week!)
One other item, I'm sure this is the story that spawned the trope of "Kirk nags computer to self-destruct".
Ted Cassity is pretty great in this one, though.
Oh yeah, I forgot that other digressive referencial tangent:
