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So, I watched an episode of the original Star Trek series entitled "What are little girls made of?". I think once again Star Trek attempts to tackle a major social issue. This is a very bold and, at the time, very cutting edge. Basically, what happens is the Enterprise is dispatched to save Roger Korby, a really well known exobiologist, whom appears to have been stranded on the planet Exo III for 3 years. Chapel, the ships nurse, was Korby's fiance. They go there only to find a bunch of androids that seem to be kind of pointless, and they find Korby. Korby doesn't seem right. Korby himself than ends up being an Android. So basically, there was no one to save at all.Korby ends up getting destroyed, so that no more Androids can be made. I guess you just get a sense of the meaninglessness. They came so far only to realize that everyone is just a machine. This episode aired in 1966, so there could be a possible connection to the Vietnam War. Potentially how the soldiers felt at the end of the war, having gained or won really nothing. The United States spent billions of dollars and lost many American lives and have nothing to show for it. It was a meaningless war basically. I thought the episode was kind of interesting. It was a little bit haunting which made the episode have a pretty cool tone. Overall, I thought the episode was pretty good but the low quality of the show is still somewhat detracting from the show.