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"What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

This theme of scientific zealots deliberately creating images of themselves and of other humans -- in the form of clones, humanoids, androids -- recurs again and again and again in the Star Trek television series, and in science fiction.

It must be the normal development of any electro-mechanical civilization that scientific Prometheans come to believe they can isolate the fire of heaven in themselves and do a better job of creation than God. Inevitably they are destroyed in the process because they see creation "in a glass darkly", only from the cold, mental point of view.

Every planet containing a human life wave must have a forgotten Sumerian civilization, several of them, in which the perfect servant, the perfect factory or mine worker was deliberately created by advanced biologists; and because they are not really human -- that is, they do not possess a soul -- they are considered expendable. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the robots encountered around landed Flying Saucers. The advanced intelligences guiding the Space vehicles do not care to subject themselves to the hazards of mixing with emotionally unstable human beings.

But the creation of humanoids or androids is hazardous also! And the Teachers of our race inspired Robert Bloch to dramatically illustrate these hazards in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". Mrs. Crabb and I enjoyed watching a rerun of it on Channel 8 TV, San Diego recently. This is 200 years in the future and one of our best exobiologists has become lost in space, Dr. Roger Korby. The Earth has long since joined the Interplanetary Confederation. Membership includes responsibility for maintaining law and order in space. The star ship Enterprise with its all-earthian crew is one of our contributions to that responsibility. Captain Kirk has been ordered to look for Dr. Korby and the search takes the Enterprise to the supposedly lifeless planet, Exo III. Aboard is Korby's fiancee, Christine Chapel.

An electronic scan of the surface of Exo III indicates life below. A landing party is beamed down. The search leads them into an inhabitable cavern world built by the "Sumerians" of Exo III to escape the ravages of surface warfare which killed them [12] off thousands of years before. One of their soulless Android guards survived in the caverns, however, because his durable body was made of electronic components covered with human-like flesh and skin.

MAKE YOURSELF A NEW, PERMANENT BODY

It was this huge Android, Ruk, who found the badly burned and injured Dr. Korby on the surface, the sole survivor of a crashed space ship, brought him into the caves, and helped him construct a better, permanent form. They used the advanced equipment abandoned there by the Old Ones to form a perfect duplicate of Korby and the good doctor succeeded in transferring his consciousness into the mechanical-android form. Ruk also helped Korby to create a female companion, Andrea; but of course she was soulless, like Ruk. Souls are of a different order of magnitude, of which love is one of the major components.

Korby was overjoyed to be found and to be reunited with his fiancee again, and thrilled with the prospect of utilizing this advanced bio-science of cloning to place androids of his own manufacture in key positions of the Federation -- all under his control, of course!

He persuades the sceptical Kirk to allow himself to be cloned, duplicated, then gets the android Kirk beamed aboard the Enterprise. There the soulless mockup of a human deceives everyone except First Officer Spock, who is alerted to the deception by the cold, emotionless behavior of the android Captain Kirk. Meanwhile, in the Cavern World the real Kirk is kept prisoner; but he plays the part of Satan to upset Korby's Garden of Eden, by deliberately igniting the spark of human passion in Korby's devoted android partner, Andrea. He embraces her warmly, something the cold scientist had never done. Kirk also uses another human ploy to upset the orderly, computer-programmed androids: he asks illogical questions about behavior and ethics which cannot be answered with cold logic, by Ruk, for instance, who turns on Dr. Korby to destroy him. In self-defense Korby dematerializes Ruk with a ray gun -- while Andrea, ray gun, in hand, heads for the cavern entrance to stop any other invaders.

Meanwhile, the android Kirk beams back down from the Enterprise, [13] only to be met by Andrea, determined to protect Korby and their Eden. She zaps the android Kirk into oblivion and heads back for the central labs where the real Captain Kirk is confronting Dr. Korby with his moral degradation, the deadening of his human feelings, the logical result of conducting scientific research devoid of the Light of human love in the heart.

Korby's fiancee is confused by the changes in the man she loved. So is Andrea, when she arrives to find another Kirk. In the succeeding conflict between Kirk and Korby, the skin on one of Korby's hands is scraped off to reveal -- not flesh and blood -- but electronic circuitry! To the horror of Miss Chapel, his fiancee. Kirk is shocked, too, to realise he has been dealing with an android. Dr. Korby, on the other hand, is proud that he has made the transfer from a mortal, human body to an immortal mechanical duplicate, so perfect these people couldn't tell the difference.

"BEHOLD, MAN HAS BECOME AS ONE OF US"

To paraphrase Genesis 3:22, Dr. Korby had "reached forth his hand and plucked the fruit of the tree of life and eaten -- thus knowing good and evil" and had become as one of the gods. A strange, new force was at work in Andrea, too. It was human love for her creator, Dr. Korby, and the denouement revealed it most dramatically. Ray gun still in her hand, she stepped forward, embraced him, and pulled the trigger. The two androids dissolved quickly into thin air. In this act of self-sacrifice Andrea would have acquired a soul -- if I understand the Law correctly -- and would have prevented Korby from losing his completely in a long career of political crime.

So, by the time Spock arrives at the central labs in the Caverns with a landing party, it's all over and there's nothing to do but beam back up to the Enterprise and philosophise about their latest adventure in their space patrol work of 2200 A.D.

This Star Trek episode suggests answers to the big unanswered question in Jochman's article on the Clones of Enki: Do these slave workers for the mines of Apsu have souls or don't they? The strong possibility is there because they had human-type bodies presumably with a heart and a warm-blood circulating system, the basis for human love and passion. Presumably they also had reproductive organs and thus the capability of creating after their own kind.

The opposite appears to be true of the androids described by Dr. Hurtak as being found in the crashed Flying Saucers. Such robots appear to be totally expendable, animated only for the duration of the mission to planet Earth, and "ensouled" by the will of the advanced being who created them. Responding instantly on command, they make ideal servants and assistants.