Stardate: 2712.4

Original airdate: 10/20/1966

Writer: Robert Bloch

Director: James Goldstone

Guest stars:

Michael Strong          Dr. Roger Korby, believed to be dead.(Known as the'Pasteur' of Archeological medicine. translated medical records from the Orion ruins that revolutionized our immunizaton tecniques. Required reading at the academy. It has been 5 years since any one heard from him. Two expeditions sent to try to find him failed.)

Sherry Jackson          Andrea (android geisha girl)
Ted Cassidy             Ruk (Android native who was found by Korby when first arrived on Exo 3 tending the machinery. Together they built Brown and Andrea)
Harry Basch             Dr.Brown (nickname, Brownie, Korby's assistant, now an android)
Vince Deadrick          Matthews (security guard, killed by Ruk when pushed off a cliff into a bottomless pit.)
Budd Albright           Rayburn (Killed by Ruk)
 

Crew appearances:
Kirk, Spock, Uhura, no McCoy

Nurse Christine Chapel-gave up a career in bio research to sign on board a starship in search of Roger Korby, her fiancee.

The Old Ones:  original human inhabitants of Exo 3,now gone. they became fearful of their well built android machines so they began turning them off. The Android's destroyed the Old Ones to survive.

Exo 3: blue, cloudy planet from space, gravity 1.1 of earth, surface temp -100 deg. the sun is fading fast for the past 1/2 million years or so. Looks icy cold, so why arent they wearing parkas?

Story:
Nurse Christine Chapel is to be reunited with her fiancé, Dr. Roger Korby, who is on the planet Exo III. When she and Kirk beam down to the planet's surface, they learn that Korby has discovered an ancient technology to make an android of Kirk, with the intention of using the Enterprise to spread this new race throughout the galaxy. (copied from the net)

Factoids:

Freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit

George Samuel Kirk, brother of Capt. Kirk, saw Kirk off on this current mission, with his wife and three sons. Wants to be transferred to Earth colony 2 research station. Only Capt. Kirk calls him Sam.

List of despots who were known to want programming over freedom in trade for paradise: Gingus Khan, Julius Ceaser, Hitler, Ferrus, Maltuvus.

Quotes:
"Androids don't eat, Ms. Chapel"
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"Mind your own business, Mr. Spock. I'm sick of your half breed interference."
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"THAT was the equation. Existance, survival, must cancel out programming."

Reader's Digested Version:
Kirk gets entangled  with a hot machine.