"Not programmed for you..."

[Melakon]

--Shall we start with Andrea?
--Yes, let's start with Andrea.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_Of%3F_%28episode%29

http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/10.htm

Despite Korby's claims that Andrea is not a sex doll, she obviously understands the word 'kiss' and its meaning, as she demonstrates on Kirk.

Was she created as a companion for Korby? For Brown? For Ruk?

Thanks to Kirk, she seems to begin to understand the concept of love, showing affection to Korby, to unfortunate results.

When she thinks Kirk has escaped, she offers to kiss him again, but when refused takes aggressive action. This may have been a bit more than Korby intended with the word 'protect'.

edited to add:
Christmas Skip seems to be getting an eyeful.

 

[CrazyMatt]

That's why Ruk was hunting Kirk in the caverns--Kirk had stolen Andrea's giant dildo.

 

[Lance]

^

Perhaps Andrea might be based on a real person? Like the Kirk!Replicant, Dr. Brown, and "Korby" himself? Maybe she was actually based on somebody the real Korby once knew, or another member of his team.

 

[Push The Button]

I'm guessing that Andrea is exactly like a girl that Korby knew back in his college days that wouldn't date him.

 

[Christopher]

Despite Korby's claims that Andrea is not a sex doll...

Is that what Korby actually claims, though? His actual words are:

You think I could love a machine? ...Andrea's incapable of that. She simply obeys orders. She has no meaning for me. There's no emotional bond.

He never said he didn't have sex with Andrea -- he just said he didn't love her. As I read that, he's implicitly admitting that she is his sex doll, that his interaction with her is an impersonal physical release with no emotional component. He only denies the emotional aspect, which is effectively an admission of the physical aspect. That kind of "Baby, it didn't mean anything" defense is the sort of thing a man would say to his fiancee when she found out he'd been with a hooker, say.

To me, it's always been crystal clear that Andrea's purpose was to service Korby sexually, but in his mind, that didn't constitute cheating on Christine because Andrea was just a machine rather than a person.

 

[Lance]

^ True. There's absolutely nothing in Korby's words that says he doesn't use her for sex.

I'm guessing that Andrea is exactly like a girl that Korby knew back in his college days that wouldn't date him.

All too frighteningly plausible.

 

[Melakon]

Christopher, good point. I'd just watched it before the thread and hadn't considered that interpretation.

This was the first episode I saw during first run. But I didn't come into it until Ruk's chase through the cave. The first words I heard were him imitating Chapel, but I didn't know that. The next episode was "Miri" so it took a few weeks for Star Trek to win me over.

 

[Warped9]

I'm guessing that Andrea is exactly like a girl that Korby knew back in his college days that wouldn't date him.

ZING!

 

[johnnybear]

Thing is how 'could' Korby have sex with Andrea when he was an android himself?
JB

 

[Warped9]

Thing is how 'could' Korby have sex with Andrea when he was an android himself?
JB

Seriously? Data was an android and "fully functional."

My impression was that Korby was an example of what he was trying to tell Kirk that the android could be made indistinguishable from human. Rayna from "Requiem For Methuselah" was another example.

 

[johnnybear]

I wasn't talking of a physical need but a mental one for Korby was an android who believed he was still human but later on he acted more like a machine than a man!
So I don't think that he had sex with Andrea not because his mechanical body couldn't but more that his desires had been changed!
JB

 

[Christopher]

I wasn't talking of a physical need but a mental one for Korby was an android who believed he was still human but later on he acted more like a machine than a man!
So I don't think that he had sex with Andrea not because his mechanical body couldn't but more that his desires had been changed!
JB

But had they? The androids seemed capable of emotion despite Korby's claims. Andrea apparently killed the Kirk android because he snubbed her, and hell hath no fury etc. She also seemed to express love for Korby at the end. And Ruk was capable of hatred and rage. The point of the episode, pretty much, was that the androids were ultimately just as flawed and emotional as humans, that they weren't the superior beings Korby believed they were.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I'm guessing that Andrea is exactly like a girl that Korby knew back in his college days that wouldn't date him.

Now that is so wrong!

 

[Vger23]

I always believed Andrea was there specifically as entertainment for Korby.

 

[Christopher]

I always believed Andrea was there specifically as entertainment for Korby.

There's no other way I can see to explain her wardrobe.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

I can in two words: Gene Roddenberry!

 

[Christopher]

^In-story, I meant.

 

[Duncan MacLeod]

I know but I couldn't resist.

Not after reading the story of how he and Shatner were practically fighting as they both were adjusting the poor girl's costume.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

If I were stuck alone on a planet somewhere, and I kind of am, having an Andrea or a Rayna Capek would be fembot heaven for me. I don't know what recharging her would do to my electric bill, but I'd pay it.

 

[Melakon]

I always believed Andrea was there specifically as entertainment for Korby.

There's no other way I can see to explain her wardrobe.

She's apparently the last manufactured Korby android. Possibly her clothing is to better the study of his new simulated goosebumps algorithm.