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Top 10 Best Star Trek Female Characters, Ranked From Romulans to Illyrians

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It’s not easy coming up with the  best Star Trek female characters , because there are so many to choose from. We wish we could name every one of them since there have been amazing female characters throughout the original Star Trek series, The Next Generation, and the recent Strange New Worlds. But this bodes well for the franchise, providing an excellent balance between male and female characters that’s helped elevate Star Trek beyond the confines of any world. Without further ado, let’s check out the list.

10. Romulan Commander

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The first time the Federation’s deadliest enemy was introduced was in the original series episode The Enterprise Incident. Kirk gives in to his daring nature and takes his Enterprise ship into Romulan territory, where he encounters a squadron. What makes this character even more significant is the fact that she remains unnamed to this day and yet is such an important milestone for Star Trek canon and history.

While Kirk attempts to gather intel on the Romulans, the commander is fascinated by Spock and tries to persuade him to join her. It becomes apparent she might have a romantic inclination toward him. After inviting Spock to dinner, she explains how Romulan women are passionate when compared to logical Vulcan women. Spock is put on edge, but resists her offer and maintains his loyalty. All along, Spock was helping Kirk steal the invaluable cloaking device to help advance the Federation’s technology. At the end of the episode, the Romulan commander is captured aboard the Enterprise and held as a prisoner. In a moment of privacy, Spock admits that his romantic interest in her was not pretended.

9. Philippa Georgiou

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Georgiou is a Malaysian human who became one of the Starfleet Academy’s most decorated officers and the captain of U.S.S. Shenzou. During a routine activity, her crew encountered the hostile Klingon Empire and things quickly escalated into an event known as the Battle at the Binary Stars before becoming the catalyst to the Klingon-Federation War. Georgiou lost her life to the leader of the Klingons, T’Kuvma, as she tried to capture him on his ship in an attempt to prevent the war. She is a smart and driven commander who will go down in Star Trek history for her sacrifice.

8. Elizabeth Shelby

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Commander Elizabeth Shelby has a bit of notoriety to her name, mostly owing to her rivalry with Commander William T. Riker. After confidently believing she would replace him as Captain Picard’s first officer, Riker didn’t take too kindly to her after his promotion to commander of U.S.S. Melbourne. To Shelby’s chagrin, she ended up becoming Riker’s first officer. Elizabeth has a similar personality to Admiral James T. Kirk in that she is a risk-taker when the greater good is involved.

As such, she ended up going over Riker’s head when leading an away team to investigate a Borg attack, and went so far as to lead another team to rescue Picard when the Borg kidnapped him. She eventually moved up the ranks to be a commanding officer herself, and it would be great to find out more about her in future shows.

7. Deanna Troi

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Deanna Troi is a standout character not just due to her exoticness, but also because of her half-human, half-Betazoid hybrid race. This mixed-race is what gave her telepathic abilities (though decreased in their effectiveness), and those powers were perfect for the crew’s counselor. She brought prominence to this Starfleet position and proved the most valuable assets to have in space are communication and empathy.

On many occasions, her abilities helped smooth things out during turbulent encounters, and she survived many different scenarios including being surgically altered, impersonating Romulans, and figuring out when others were lying. Deanna eventually married Riker and did more than enough to secure her legacy in Star Trek canon and history.

6. Michael Burnham

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Michael has great importance to Star Trek canon, bringing more diversity while also being the main protagonist on the Star Trek: Discovery series despite not acting as the captain. Her story overshadows her captain Gabriel Lorca, and while she served under Captain Phillippa Georgiou, she would commit mutiny and injure Phillippa in order to force the U.S.S. Shenzhou to preemptively attack the Klingons. After being a part of the Klingon-Federation war’s inciting incident, Captain Lorca reduced her sentence since he wanted crew members dedicated to defeating the Klingons.

Her backstory is unique in that she was a human raised by Klingons, and none other than Spock’s father, Sarek, specifically. Not a typical Star Trek character, Michael is a complicated woman, most likely created under modern characterization precepts, and it will be interesting to see how her story develops.

5. Beverly Crusher

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Talk about an intimidating name. Beverly Crusher is an all-around amazing female character, and not at all an aggressive one like her last name might suggest. She served as the chief medical officer on both Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E, and was a main crew member on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a loving mother to Wesley Crusher and after her husband’s tragic passing, developed a close bond with Picard that blurred the lines between friendship and romance.

Beverly Crusher is controversial in that many wished she was further developed than what was allowed on screen in the Star Trek the Next Generation shows and movies. Her closeness to Picard also rallied fans to request her to have a main role in the Picard series, and many non-canonical books were written about the pairing, and the life they share together, along with their son.

4. Seven of Nine

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Seven of Nine’s name should state the obvious; there’s nothing quite like her. Although human, she was a former Borg drone, meaning she was part of the Borg Collective until she was liberated by Kathryn Janeway and her U.S.S. Voyager crew. As an assimilated Borg, she was taken by them and enhanced with cybernetics. In the case of Seven of Nine, or Annika Hansen, she was abducted at the age of six and dubbed Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One.

After her complex and traumatic upbringing, she becomes nuanced and complicated aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. She brings many deep, dramatic, and thematic elements to Star Trek, portraying a character that demands respect, patience, and understanding. After all, consider the fact that she was kidnapped as a child, forced to become a Borg drone, and then has difficulty assimilating with her human peers (let alone other races), while also having to suppress an urge to rejoin the Borg. For the show, she brought plenty of tense moments, as well as emotional scenes, funny moments, and butt-kicking action.

3. Nyota Uhura

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Uhura has seen different incarnations throughout the various Star Trek series and movies, and Strange New Worlds has really taken her to the next level. Her latest on-screen portrayal brings a balanced sense of vulnerability, strengths, weaknesses, and backstory. Although she begins as a communications officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, she eventually achieves the rank of commander of the U.S.S. Leondegrance for her remaining services to the Starfleet.

She can also be considered the first true standout female character or lead and deserves it completely. Uhura brings a great amount of diversity and unique themes to explore. As the expert linguist on her crew, and with her potential to grow, we’re looking forward to seeing more of her on a regular basis.

2. Number One / Una Chin-Riley

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As her designated name states, Number One is the first officer to Pike, and ranks just shy of the number one spot on this list. In the original series, she was only referred to as Number One but was later named Una Chin-Riley in several non-canon Star Trek novels. It’s great how Strange New Worlds finally solidifies her name as canon. Also in the new series, Una is given a more involved role and is attached to a key plot involving Pike’s destiny. Since she’s an Illyrian, she’s genetically modified, which is also why she looks like a human, while her kind normally does not.

From the beginning of the Strange New Worlds series, Starfleet makes it clear that they are anti-genetically modified beings. This puts her in a terrible position, and in direct defiance of Federation law. Regardless, she’s already had spotlight episodes where she’s saved the crew from a deadly virus, and has special empathy when it comes to forming bonds with fellow crew members. The fact that she risks it all to help her crewmates and perform her duties to better mankind makes her all the more compelling and one to root for.

1. Kathryn Janeway

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Kathryn Janeway is an iconic female character that hasn’t received as much attention as she should, especially in recent Star Trek lore and media. In Starfleet history, she remains one of the most highly decorated captains and is notoriously known for her obsession with coffee. On a more serious note, one of her most notable accomplishments is how she took command of the U.S.S. Voyager as it made its way through the dangerous Delta Quadrant, which is home to the Borg Collective. Thanks to her leadership, the Voyager was able to bring the crew safely back to earth through a Borg transwarp conduit.

Her time as a commander also gained her another milestone which she achieved during her space exploration. It’s been estimated in various episodes how she’s made first contact with more alien races than James T. Kirk. She eventually gets promoted to the rank of Admiral after helping prevent another technologically advanced species from the Delta Quadrant, the Vau N’Akat, from destroying the Federation. To top it off, she defeated the Borg Queen and has a diverse background full of hobbies, passions, and scientific skills. Most of all, she comes across as being a balanced leader; one who is smart, decisive, and strong, but also kind, caring, and understanding. No other female character has been involved in so many Star Trek critical events and achieved so much, which makes her deserving of this top spot.

That’s our list of the top best Star Trek female characters , but the great thing about this franchise is that it has always been a pioneer for portraying powerful women of diverse races, ages, and cultures. There are way more than 10 great female characters in the Star Trek mythos, and new prominent female characters are being introduced all the time. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you owe it to yourself to check out the video game, Resurgence .

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It turns out that USS Discovery's mysterious bridge crew member isn't actually a robot but a human unlike we've seen before on Star Trek.

WARNING: This article may contain minor spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery, airing Sundays on CBS All Access.

There's a growing list of mysteries surrounding the first season of Star Trek: Discovery , from the true nature of the title vessel and its duplicitous captain to the potentially staggering secret that Lt. Ash Tyler (and his actor) may be hiding . But few have been as persistent as what the deal is with that almost comically robot-looking member of Discovery 's bridge crew. This week we found out -- although not on the series itself.

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Co-creator Bryan Fuller, who left the series before its premiere, had teased last year that Discovery would include robots, something seemingly reinforced last month with an official peek behind the scenes of the drama's props and prosthetics , in which the "robot" crewman is identified as Airiam. However, it turns out she isn't a robot; not exactly.

On this week's episode of After Trek , the live after-show, showrunner Gretchen J. Berg and special effects makeup artists Neville Page and Glenn Hetrick clarified that Airiam is an augmented human , not a robot.

"There was a sketch," Berg said. "I remember for Episode 3, because you [Page] had done a lot of concept sketches of different creatures, of different augmented humans, and I remember at one point, like, Akiva Goldsman, who's an amazing executive producer on the show and was directing Episode 3, ran through the office at one point and was like, 'I want Plate Face, I call Plate Face!' We were like, 'I don't know what you're talking about,' but he fell in love with that sketch, and sometimes it's that -- you start from there: Who is this character? What is she about? And her name became Airiam, She's kind of a favorite in the [writers'] room; we love her. She's fantastic."

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Traditionally the Star Trek franchise has used "augmented human," or merely Augment, to refer to those genetically engineered Terrans like Khan Noonien Singh who were the products of Earth's 20th-century Eugenics Wars, and Dr. Julian Bashir (of Deep Space Nine ), who as a child underwent "accelerated critical neural pathway formation" treatments. (The Klingons too have augments, the result of a failed attempt to use DNA from augmented human embryos to bio-engineer super-warriors.) However, Airiam is clearly different, as she's been heavily augmented with robotic, cybernetic, attachments. Kind of like the Borg, come to think of it, only without the hive mind, invasive assimilation process and, presumably, driving desire for "perfection."

Played by Sara Mitich ( The Expanse , Heroes Reborn ) Airiam is characterized as potentially "modular," meaning we could see her use custom attachments for, say, away missions. "It actually was discussed, right?" Hetrick said. "We talked about seeing different of -- I mean, there's so many iterations to arrive at where she's at. You, just kind of going through the sketches, saw some of the fleshier versions and hard surfacing. Then it became this cool white silicone, so I feel like she could evolve more."

Airing Sundays at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBS All Access, Star Trek: Discovery stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Jason Isaacs, Anthony Rapp, Shazad Latif, Mary Wiseman, Wilson Cruz, Mary Chieffo and James Frain.

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Airiam is a member of the discovery's bridge crew, and she's a unique character in the 'star trek' universe..

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Like previous  Star Trek series,  Discovery includes several Starfleet officers who appear in every episode, but aren’t members of the main cast. Helmswoman Kayla Detmer (the redhaired lieutenant with the cranial implants) is already a familiar face, and while you may not know her name, you’ll definitely recognize Airiam.

Airiam is the silver-headed character who looks like a robot— although as it turns out, she’s actually an “augmented human.” In other words, a cyborg. On this week’s  After Trek , showrunner Gretchen Berg discussed Airiam’s origins with makeup artist Glenn Hetrick. Apparently Airiam began as a sketch nicknamed “plate face,” and they loved the design so much, they made her a recurring character.

Played by Sara Mitich, she’s a science officer who helps to operate the spore drive.

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She’s a new kind of character within Star Trek canon. While characters like Geordi La Forge and Kayla Detmer use electronic implants for medical purposes, fully-fledged cyborgs are rare. That’s why the Borg were such a dramatic opponent to the Federation.

Judging by her appearance, much of Airiam’s body is covered with synthetic skin, and she seems to have augmented eyes. Were these upgrades a medical necessity, or is this an extreme kind of body modification?

@SaraMitich Thanks for being such a lovely augmented human😁. You made Airiam exquisite. Image from After Trek @startrekcbs pic.twitter.com/87MUc1R413 — Neville Page (@NevillePage) October 23, 2017

Airiam is exactly the kind of background character that makes the Star Trek universe so fascinating. On the surface, she just looks like a cool robot. But as soon as we start thinking about it, her presence invites a ton of questions about  Discovery ‘s worldbuilding. As After Trek  points out, they’ve barely scratched the surface of her role.

She’s due to appear in future episodes, so maybe we’ll learn some of the backstory for her cyborg appearance—and find out if she has any special abilities.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Follow her on Twitter: @Hello_Tailor

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Catching up with 'TOS'' Android Andrea

We spoke with actress Sherry Jackson about what it was like to transition from child star into infamous Trek guest.

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This article originally ran in June of 2014.

Sherry Jackson played the android Andrea in “ What Are Little Girls Made Of ?,” in which she sported a gravity-defying outfit, kissed Captain Kirk and earned her place in Trek history. However, Star Trek was but one credit in her career. Jackson also co-starred as a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy and appeared in memorable episodes of Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, Batman, The Wild Wild West, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island and CHiPs .

Jackson is retired these days, but still makes the occasional autograph show and convention appearance. In advance of her appearance at Star Trek Las Vegas 2014, Jackson agreed to chat by telephone about her Trek experience, her career and her life today.

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Go all the way back. You’d done an episode of Gene Roddenberry’s pre- Trek series, The Lieutenant. Did that have any impact on you winning your role on Star Trek ?

JACKSON: I don’t know. I didn’t remember that Gene Roddenberry was on that show. That’s a show that, excuse my immodesty, but I liked performance in it, and I loved working with Gary Lockwood. He was very serious about the work and wasn’t just doing it by the numbers. We’d work out a scene and make it the best we could make it. But with Star Trek , my agent called and said, “I want you to go on this interview.” So I went, but I’ve never cared particularly for sci-fi. I liked 2001 , but I’m not a geeky sci-fi person, and I’ve actually not watched any of the other Star Trek episodes or movies. But to answer your question, I had to meet with Gene Roddenberry three different times before he decided he wanted me for Star Trek.

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Your costume in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” is unforgettable. What do you recall of the fittings as William Ware Theiss brought it to life on you?

JACKSON: Bill Theiss was just wonderful. Bill and Gene Roddenberry and myself… all three of us were designing that outfit. It was like some mechanical engineering job to make it work. I can tell you a couple of stories about the outfit. I invented the slit up the front of the leg on it. I’m only 5-foot-4 and I wanted to look taller. That made me look taller. The outfit just became magical. Also, hip-huggers weren’t around at that time, but apparently after that episode, hip-huggers came into fashion. I’m sure it was because of Star Trek .

Andrea, for an android, certainly expressed plenty of emotion and sensuality.

JACKSON: If you look closely, you can see the transition, which is very nuanced. I was acting that role like I would play a human, in a way, because I knew there had been androids before Andrea, but I hadn’t seen any shows or movies with androids and I had no concept of an android. So I created what I thought the android would feel or not feel. Of course, in the beginning, she doesn’t feel. She just obeys orders. And then she gets feelings and you see her slowly come around to those feelings, and that’s really a shock to her.

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You shared some nice moments with Majel Barrett, Michael Strong and William Shatner. What do you remember of working with them?

JACKSON: Well, Majel, at that time, was dating Gene Roddenberry, I think, but I didn’t know that. She was playing her role, the strong independent woman, and she was also like that on the set. She wasn’t a warm, huggy, fun, goof-off kind of person. She was very business-like. She did her scenes and knew her lines. She was a professional. Michael Strong was a theater actor, and I loved working with him. He was also doing what I was doing, because he was playing an android. When he broke down, I thought, “Wow, this is really good work here.” Ted Cassidy was just a doll, too. And Shatner… well, what can I say? He’s a nice person. Of course, he was kind of flirting with me. But overall, I enjoyed working with Shatner.

Just before we got on the phone to do this interview with you, we watched the episode again. And we replayed and replayed the scene in which the trigger is pulled on the phaser. Once and for all, who pulled the trigger?

JACKSON: You know, that’s a good question. I’m not sure myself.

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You’re one of the rare actors who successfully transitioned from child star to teen actor to adult actor. Did you realize at the time just how rare it was to accomplish that?

JACKSON: Yes, I knew it was very, very difficult, partly because of the laws of the Board of Education.  You could work when you were younger than six, but you could only work limited hours. So they’d rather hire someone who was seven but looked five. If you think about it, it’s why you saw so many short actors on screen, especially the boys who grew up to be [male adult] actors. But I kept getting work, and I was very grateful for the opportunities.  It was my goal to work. I wanted to do more mature roles. I couldn’t stand it when they called me “pigtailed moppet Sherry Jackson.” I said, “Someday, I’m going to change that.” Star Trek was really the beginning. Then, when I saw myself in Gunn , I said, “Now, that’s a grown-up woman.” I thought for a minute that, “I don’t ever have to work again,” because I’d reached my goal of making that transition, but then I kept on working.

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What are some of other credits you’re proudest of?

JACKSON: Everyone seems to like something different, which I think is great. I really enjoyed Trouble Along the Way , which was a movie I did with John Wayne. Michael Curtiz, who directed Casablanca , directed that. That picture was hard work, but I really enjoyed the experience and like my performance in it. And I loved John Wayne. He was very good to me. I watched the film not too long ago. Sometimes when you watch yourself you think, “The performance just isn’t there” or, “Ugh, that wasn’t good.” That film, I think I was very, very good in it.

Let’s end the conversation by bringing everyone up to date. How is life treating you these days?

JACKSON: I’m just enjoying retirement and yoga and studying things and learning Spanish. I’m doing all kinds of things, and it keeps me busy. I like having a busy schedule.

You still attend the occasional autograph show and you’ll be heading out to Las Vegas in August 2014 for Creation’s big Star Trek convention. It must be fun to meet the fans…

JACKSON: I love it. My fan base is from 17 years old to about 80, which is phenomenal, and a lot of them are Star Trek fans. I get letters from all over the world. And I hear from many fans on my website. At the conventions, I enjoy spending time with them, seeing what they’re like, hearing where they’re from, if they have kids. The joy of it is talking to them.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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Star trek: 10 best androids, ranked.

Star Trek has featured plenty of androids over its half-century of existence, and we're here to rank the 10 we found to be the most memorable.

Star Trek is all about human exploration, aliens, and the future. And, while fans adore all the different species and cultures they meet, one of the most fascinating people are ones born without a defined culture: androids. Often created by advanced humanoids to make their lives easier, these beings struggle with their identity, purpose, and more. After all, most of their creators don't consider them to be quite as "real" as any of the other organic beings around them.

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While Star Trek has seen many androids in its day, some are better—and more compelling—than others. For example, despite changing the course of android history forever in the galaxy, Picard 's F-8 didn't really have much going for him except his tragic hijacking and an unfortunate name. Here are the ten best Star Trek androids, ranked.

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While in the Delta Quadrant, Voyager ran into a synthetic species with no real proper name. However, they did abduct B'Elanna Torres to help them with some engineering problems.

These androids weren't the most humanoid looking folk, but they were the kind that grew intelligent beyond their programming and came to understand their existence. Unfortunately for their creators, that turned into the androids rising up against them and hunting them to extinction. Happens when you use a whole species as cannon fodder. Safe to say, B'Elanna's encounter with these androids did not end well. It was a cautionary tale of treating other sentient life with respect.

Dr. Soong's first android prototype, B-4 wasn't nearly as sophisticated as his later brothers like Lore or Data. However, he was a valuable touchstone in the future of his kind. After all, he housed the first positronic brain and became the inspiration for all future Soongien-type androids. B-4 also saved the memories and life of Data, his younger counterpart.

Where other humans had to copy other species' work to try to make androids, Soong made one all on his own. B-4 would bring in a new era for synthetics—even if he never was allowed to see it himself.

Even though fans only knew Dahj a short time, she was a fantastic android. She was the initial proof that androids had moved beyond the limitations of Data, acting and seeming as human as anyone else. Where Soji generally seemed a little more analytical and serious than those around her, Dahj acted like a very average girl, having drinks with her boyfriend and enjoying a vibrant, sensitive human life. Until the Romulans came for her, that is.

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While Dahj couldn't save herself, she proved that the galaxy was capable of having its own race of full-functional, autonomous, human-like synthetics. She deserved better than the slaughter she got.

As the first official android on Star Trek screens, Ruk was a relic of a civilization long-lost, only leaving their synthetic creations behind. While Ruk didn't have much of a personality, Dr. Korby couldn't have made his androids without Ruk's sophisticated template. Now, while everyone loves Dr. Korby's madness and watching Kirk teach robot Andrea to love, none of that was possible without Ruk.

After being one of the sole survivors or a great conflict, the dude definitely deserves better than how Korby treated him. Sure, he wasn't safe for the rest of the galaxy, but he deserved a better life than to be used and discarded, after surviving so much hardship. RIP, Ruk.

The brother of Data, Lore was the antithesis of all of Data's acceptance. He was a much more sensitive android who understandably hated being treated like an outsider, being rejected, and all of the bad things that Data was luckily capable of ignoring. Lore proved that androids can also inhabit all the darker parts of humanity, as well. Jealousy, pettiness, cruelty, lust for power, the works. He was vindictive in taking the emotion chip from Dr. Soong, and he was selfish in using the lost and confused ex-B's, as his own little minions.

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While he never was a kind android, he proved how much influence a creator/parent has, and how Soong's treatment turned him into something worse. His complexities make him an important android, albeit not a good one.

Data's first child held a special place in his positronic heart, his first attempt at creating life on his own. She was given so much more freedom to explore and grow, and, unfortunately, her brain just wasn't prepared to handle it.

However, Data did do something remarkable: he improved on his own creator's progress by making an android who could do things he couldn't, like feel emotions in a deep, complex way, or use contractions. Also, she looked so human in comparison to Data.  Lal  was the first step to the Soongien-type androids of Picard , and, though losing her hurt Data and she lived for such a short time, she changed the future of synthetic kind.

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The most life-like android that Noonien Soong ever made was of his own wife, Juliana. Unfortunately, in an accident, Juliana lost her life. Unable to bear being without her, Soon created an android with her personality that would never know it wasn't human. It acted, felt, and passed completely for a human, with pretend blood and everything.

Their son, Data, eventually found out her secret, but she was such a perfect replica that Data didn't change her life by telling her the secret. Instead, Juliana remained "human" for the rest of her life, or at least until someone else found out.

Where the TOS series could be cheesy and messy at times, the TOS movies were where Kirk and co. really shined their brightest. In one of their adventures, they faced off against V'Ger. The malignant probe ended her life and then used her body to create an android that he could use to communicate with the Enterprise crew. However, despite her similarities to the original Ilia, the android had a suppressed personality and worked for the probe.

Ilia was proof that there were many ways to create complex androids, and not all of those creators would be well-intentioned humans. Despite her transformation, though, the left-over memories meant Ilia still felt and loved to some capacity, which is how Will Decker chose to stay with her and V'Ger forever.

One of Data's many "children" created by Maddox and Alton Soong, Soji became the turning point for her people. While many of them were reclusive and afraid of people, for justified reasons, Soji became their reason to change their minds. After all, she spent her entire life among them, never knowing her true identity, unlike many of the others. She is the most human android ever to exist. She looked, felt, and presented exactly like one. The only difference was what lay deep underneath her skin.

Though her journey was a difficult one, and she even turned her back on humanity at one point, her ultimate decision to save them instead of dooming them made a brighter future for synthetics forever.

Hands down, the best android was and always will be Data. He always balanced respecting who he was and working his hardest to be something more. He made friends, experienced love, explored science, art, history, and so much more. He let his curiosity and kindness lead him, making him a heroic and ever-growing being.

While others made their synthetic nature their curse, Data fully accepted it with open arms. Since his creation, Data has been an inspiration to many people, especially those who sometimes feel like they're trapped on the outside of humanity. Because he proved, no matter how inhuman you seem, that striving to be human is all you'll ever need. After Picard 's finale, this character will be sorely missed.

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Air date: 2/14/1969 Written by Jerome Bixby Directed by Murray Golden

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While scouting a planet's surface for the necessary medicine to combat a plague, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter a social recluse named Flint (James Daly) who had long ago abandoned Earth and now lives alone with his enigmatic pupil and companion, an apparently young woman named Rayna Kapec (Louise Sorel). Flint subtly manufactures a series of situations that brings Kirk and Rayna together until a mutual attraction develops. Unfortunately for Kirk, Rayna's attraction to a third party was intended by Flint to awaken her senses beyond the intellectual patterns of thought—so that she and Flint could be united.

The implications of the episode are interesting: Flint isn't seeking merely a lover for companionship; he's searching for one who is also intellectual equal. He has literally built Rayna—an android—using the sum of his experiences. The story asks how useful a person is once he has outlived his own sense of purpose—and for Flint, a life of hundreds of years has produced everything from music apparently written by Brahms to artwork apparently created by da Vinci.

Admittedly, I couldn't quite understand how Kirk was so taken with Rayna so quickly (perhaps I should remind myself that this is Kirk we're talking about), but the triangular relationship that develops and ends in a tragedy (Rayna's inability to cope with her feelings causes a fatal shutdown) is best utilized in the show's final scene, where Spock uses a mind meld to relieve Kirk of his burden of grief. These are characters who feel for one another more than the plots often let on.

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To me, this is one of the most disappointing -- though not among the worst -- episodes of TOS. It's an amazing premise, but the love story derails it. It would have worked a little better if Kirk hadn't fallen head over heels with Rayna in like 90 minutes. At least with Edith Keeler, he spent a couple days around her. Beyond that, the TOS cliche of Spock explaining why Rayna died at the end was really annoying. How did he know she didn't die because of an unrelated mechanical problem? How did Spock figure out what happened while Flint (who built Rayna) seemed clueless? And, really, why was the explanation necessary? Also, Kirk's line to Spock about how they "were fighting over a woman" seemed really out of character for the supposed advanced sensibilities of 23rd century humans. This could have been a really great episode if it stretched out over a couple days, if the guy playing Flint was a better actor and if less time was spent on Kirk falling in love and more time spent on the idea that one man had been such an important part of human history.

I agree with Paul, above, about the "fighting over a woman" comment, and would add that Kirk seemed to run Amok way too easily.

This is disappointing. It's one of the worst episodes of Trek. It's just so utterly appalling how Kirk "fell in love" with someone, especially since she's supposed to be the companion for someone who can't die. Oh wait, Flint doesn't need a woman anymore because he's going to die. Problem solved!

I just have to point out one thing... Flint was watching them on a flatscreen TV with a soundbar. Straight out of 2013. Hell, maybe even 2014 or 2015. It was a little bit flatter than the ones around today. It never fails to amaze me how well Star Trek predicts technological advances.

Good idea but poorly executed. How many episodes are based on transporting medicine for some planetary outbreak? Kirk falling in live with an android was totally absurd as was Spock doing the mind meld at the end to make him forget.

Alternative episode title: Kirk's Got The Feevah! Who wouldn't..? Louise Sorel as Rayna, is absolutely stunning in her, snug, aluminous dress. But how out of character does Kirk seem, here? Quite clearly, and for less than noble reasons, our virile captain wants to be, ahem, in like Flint. Of the many times I saw this episode years and years ago (edited 70's era butchered airings) - though I understood she was an android I have no memory of the scene where Kirk reveals that unfortunate reality... Rayna is just one of many copies. By the way... Data (whose Lal and pre-Lal units had nothing on Rayna) wouldn't even need an emotion chip to experience some serious human envy - Flint's version is THAT impressive. The episode expects us to believe that in the short time between cold sonic showers, Kirk has fallen so deeply in love that he's willing to beat up a creepy, one thousand year old man - who once could have been Hercules. Did not Kirk witness Hercules' power to shrink a thirty foot film production Enterprise into a twelve inch AMT model?? - and freezing Scotty solid in the process? Ultimately, the landing party's visit to Holberg 917-G (weird name if you ask me) in search of an antidote results in the death of everyone on the planet (Da Vinci, Brahms, Alexander, et al) - probably a TOS "first." Not a first is James T. Kirk's innate ability of forcing a robot into suicide. Spock's use, at the end, of a sort of katra reset button was sweet... he probably thought it was only appropriate what with all the suffering Kirk went through after he murdered Edith Keeler with a Packard.

Strangely I liked this one a lot better than All our yesterdays even though it included yet another instant love story.

The episode owes a lot to the movie "Forbidden Planet," which in general TOS owes a lot to, which also means this owes a lot to "The Tempest." By having Rayna literally be both Flint's creation and the woman he loves, the creepy possessiveness of Prospero/Morpheus over his daughter is explored a little more directly. There is definitely something poignant about this story: Flint has lived so many lifetimes that his only equal is someone he can program himself, but his ability to create her as life basically means that it's impossible for a romantic relationship to blossom. Whether or not the weird father/daughter stuff surrounding Flint and Rayna was intended (I think so), it's still difficult for Rayna to shift from Flint-as-creator/mentor to Flint-as-lover. And so Kirk is brought in as a ringer. Flint starts off absolutely denying contact of Kirk etc. to his planet, before suddenly insisting that Kirk and Rayna spend time together in the hopes that this dashing captain will find the right combination to let her tumblers fall and her lock open. I'm not sure whether Flint changes his mind because he is mercurial (or the episode is poorly plotted), or if something Kirk does demonstrates his superior studliness, or if Flint had been faking his reticence all along and had always been planning to bring Kirk in. Kirk has a certain vitality that Flint has lost over the years (a common theme in depictions of extreme longevity) and maybe he can awaken something in Rayna, after which Flint can have that awakened, vital Rayna be his "life line" to give his own life meaning again. The tragedy around Rayna is that Flint and Kirk both want something from her, and while they do both care for her to an extent, neither sees her fully. Kirk wants to "free" her to "love," and Flint wants to give her everything he has to offer, which is quite a bit, on his terms. It's appropriate that one of Flint's past identities is Solomon, because I'm reminded a little of the story of Solomon suggesting splitting a baby in two to give to warring mothers, and the "true" mother being the one willing to let the baby survive with the other. Neither Kirk nor Flint pay enough attention to how badly this situation is tearing Rayna apart to stop their warring, and she dies. It's a decently effective strategy. I think that too much time was spent on the "mystery" of Flint's ancient origins, of his being Leonardo and Brahms, but given that Flint doesn't come across very well in the episode it's worth establishing why Rayna might think well of him -- his genius stretches back human centuries. The big weak link in this episode is the Kirk/Rayna "romance," which is unconvincing. It might have worked had Kirk just gotten passionate about Rayna's need for freedom, but he's in love with her as a person, which given Kirk's character needs a fair bit more setup than is given here. Contrasting this with, say, Edith Keeler, that episode spent a great deal of time setting up the nature of Kirk's feelings for her and why she was special to him; and it also came at a point in the series in which Kirk's womanizing had not gone into overdrive. It's hard to say what Kirk likes about Rayna; Spock admires her intellect, but does Kirk? Does he think she's a good dancer? Is hot? The last scene is interesting in its implications. McCoy suggests Spock is incapable of love, and then Spock administers the "forget" to Kirk, which is framed by the episode as an act of love. It is also nonconsensual, and even if it had been consensual it is an odd choice, one that goes counter to a lot of Kirk's usual gusto. I hate to bring up Star Trek V, but "I need my pain!" seems to define Kirk much more than an overwhelming desire to forget; for an in-series example, see "This Side of Paradise" for a quick demonstration of Kirk's absolute preference of messy reality over fantasy. Spock is somewhat defying Kirk's moral stance and violating his will because he doesn't want to see his friend in pain, which is also (possibly) a purely logical decision that whether Kirk would ascribe meaning to his suffering or not in the long term (he certainly doesn't seem to at this very moment), it probably is not worth the pain that he is going through right now. That the episode ends with something of a criticism of Kirk -- for throwing himself into "save the girl" to the point where the woman in question gets killed, and his bravado leading to heartbreak he couldn't recover from himself -- and Spock having to violate personal boundaries to save him suggests something a bit like the direction the movies will go in, in examining these characters' flaws and questioning the assumptions of their virtues. The episode's very slow first half and the extent to which Kirk/Rayna was unconvincing means I can't really recommend this episode, but it has its moments. 2.5 stars, I suppose.

Durandal_1707

The thing that gets me about this episode is that the Enterprise crew are supposed to be dying of plague from which only Flint's antidote can save them. You'd think that saving the lives of his entire crew would be a higher priority to Kirk than getting to shtoink Flint's android girlfriend. But apparently not. I didn't get the impression that Flint died due to the landing party's actions, though. IIRC, the dialog stated that the reason he was dying was because the unique conditions that kept him immortal were only found on Earth, and he had left it.

I found this episode interesting because in retrospect it functions very much as a precursor to themes that TNG would explore with Data. The most directly related TNG episode is "The Offspring", but there are also links to "The Measure of a Man" (Kirk showing that Rayna can be human and should be allowed to make her own decisions), as well as "The Most Toys" (an android dealing with being considered property). Having watched most of TOS now, I can say it's surprising how much material was borrowed from it for later use in the feature films and episodes of TNG.

After viewing this episode for only the second time in 20 years, I can only assume that Kirk's judgement was impaired by early symptoms of the onslaught of Rigelian fever. That's the only way to explain his totally out of character actions in this episode, since it had already been well established on multiple occasions that his first love is his ship. Perhaps Flint was even aware of this early symptom of the disease and decided to exploit it in his effort to unlock his android's emotions. If that was, indeed, the rationale driving this story, I sure would have appreciated a few lines of exposition by McCoy or Spock confirming it.

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I think this episode is hysterically awful. The episode's premise is "we must stop the virus before it kills all the crew" and yet the story turns into a totally non-credible love story. Kirk acts like some possessed school boy having his first crush on a girl. The pace is slow, no sense of urgency. The Enterprise turned into a model was Irwin Allen type gimmickry. KIrk is more concerned with loving a robot woman than saving his crew. Totally out-of-character. It was fun to watch, all episodes of Star Trek have fun moments but I'd have to rate this episode zero out of four. Meh.

In this rare instance, I must disagree with one portion of what William B. posted about Spock in his last paragraph. The fact is both Kirk, then confirmed by McCoy, say out loud (perhaps as musing, but in a way that conveys a deep wish on both their parts), the need for Kirk to forget Rayna. Kirk says it, then McCoy, after his habit-driven and equally flawed excoriation of Spock's emotional character. My take on the scene is that Spock, and yes, in an "act of love," then grants what both patient and doctor could not do. For that reason, I think the ending was outstanding.

I noticed that toward the end of TOS there was a lot of characters somehow knowing why things happened and just explaining it to each other and, really, to the audience. Very lazy stuff.

It was rather one of these dreams where someone tries to leave or go somewhere but sits in a jam an cannot leave. For havens sake McCoy, why did you not bream up as soon as you had the medicine!!! But the story was not about saving Enterprise again, and I liked it. The two alfa men fighting over a female. Both actually just wants to posses, even if Kirk says something else. This fight though is the catalyst for Raynas development to become a human being as well as it crushes her realising its consequence. Spock realises how senseless this is, tries to warn bit his boss does not want to listen. An excellent example on both modern and old management. Yes this episode had potential to be something more, but I still enjoyed it as it was.

A couple things I didn't like...McCoy insulting Spick at the end for not being human seems out of character, and Spock mind raping Kirk also seems out of character. Maybe Spock could do that to me and I'd forget the last two movies.

I would like to point out the writer of this episode, Jerome Bixby further explored the concept of a immortal caveman who survived into modern times in the film: 'The Man from Earth'. It is basically a play and filmed in 2007 starring none other then Tony Todd and John Billingsley.

This episode starts out telling us that the Enterprise is infected with the plague and everyone will die if they aren't treated within four hours. Okay, but where did they pick up this plague, and how? Surely there are decontamination and quarantine procedures which would essentially eliminate plagues, and certainly prevent them from happening on a starship, but the crew are frequently careless, so I'll buy this. Kirk demands the cure from the guy who owns the planet, after trespassing, and then later claims he didn't "demand", just "ask". His behavior throughout this whole episode is kind of off. Everyone of the ground team is acting odd, in fact. It's probably bad writing, but I'm going to say it could be that they were all suffering from early stages of the plague. I wish that had been established as the case, it would have made this episode easier to swallow. The hostile planet owner changes his mind and invites them in, offering them a drink. Because the most appropriate time to have a drink and chill is when your crew is dying of plague. Even Spock has a drink. Wtf. There's some joking around about him not wanting his brainwaves messed with by alcohol and drunk Vulcans which doesn't make any sense. A previous episode established Spock saying that alcohol has no effects on Vulcans. So one of these episodes is lying. Or it's a retcon, or Spock was lying, or McCoy and Kirk were mistaken or joking. I'm not deep enough in this to know what's right, but I still had to point that out. Spock says he's never felt envy before. I'd have assumed that since the pure Vulcans were cruel to him about his mixed race when he was a child and still seem to hold prejudices against him, he'd have at some point felt envious of them and their inclusion in society. I guess I can sort of hand wave that, he could be unaware of his own feelings, or lying about them, or maybe actually telling the truth. It just doesn't seem to go with what we've been told about the character so far. Again, the crew are dying and Kirk and Co. are happy to goof off and let this guy bring the vital McGuffin instead of insisting on getting it themselves. Why did they even have the subplot about everyone dying if they were going to treat it like it wasn't a big deal? Kirk plays pool and dances with some chick, Spock wanders around saying contradictory things about how things are authentic but brand new despite the fact that age is the test for authenticity for all the things he's saying that about. Also, playing the piano seems like too unnecessary a skill for a logical being who values useful things and hates emotions to have bothered cultivating, especially when he already has that harp-thing, but that's just a nitpick. It's all pretty out of character. Kirk values his crew and duties above all else, and Spock his duties and captain, and while I would buy Kirk et al playing along to keep on their host's good side, that's obviously not the case here. It's played as them actually just screwing around. The medicine comes back tainted and Kirk and Spock are content to let McCoy go alone with the robot that almost killed them earlier to acquisition more? These three men are always jumping all over each other to be the first to make a heroic sacrifice for the team, but they don't care enough about their dying crew to make sure nothing goes wrong this time? They're content to sit there and do nothing of value and just let McCoy do it? Really? Even if Kirk was distracted, surely Spock would say something and snap him out of it, remind him of his duties, or find out his real plan? Or McCoy would? Where are the checks and balances these three are supposed to impose on each other? The woman acts like she's still a child emotionally, but Kirk finds her so irresistible that he just walks up and starts smooching on her with no provocation? Their only interaction was dancing and her showing him some pool moves. Those must have been some damn good moves. Kirk has romanced plenty of women, but his ship always comes first. Now he's forgetting about his dying crew to make out with his grouchy host's daughter? And Spock just watches? Really? Even though this could piss off their host, and screw them all over? And then the robot conveniently doesn't see Spock standing in the doorway watching when it comes in to kill Kirk. Mmmmmkay. Kirk's known this girl for less than four hours, and doesn't even know anything about her other than she's magically good at everything but stupidly naive. And now he's forgetting about his duties and loyalties and risking everyone's lives to try to win her, even though he knows his host could easily kill them all. Wtf. Kirk's number one trait has always been loyalty to his ship, his crew. Even when he truly loves a woman, he'll leave her, because the Enterprise is his #1, it's even been explicitly stated that he's pretty much married to the Enterprise. But now this girl who's good at pool is making him throw it all away? No way I'd buy that. The host is a lonely immortal, and the girl is just a robot he made for himself as a companion, and Kirk still keeps stupidly fighting to have her? People are dying upstairs and he's fighting for possession of a glorified sexbot? Against a being who could easily overpower him if it so chose? Really? When would he ever, ever do that? He insists she's real, and that she come with him? She's not a person, she's this man's property. Wtf Kirk. The robot breaks and Spock somehow is the one who knows why, and not the 6,000 year old genius who made her? No. And he makes a big speech about love and how it killed her? No. Sorry, no. Spock being moved by the fate of a robot is stupid and out of character. Him making a speech about love is stupid and out of character. And the speech was contrived and boring, to top it off. Back on ship, of course they got there just in time to cure everyone, even though so must time was wasted planetside. Instead of talking about what a horrible captain Kirk was this episode, Bones and Spock talk about how they feel sorry for him because the feelings he had for a robot he knew for three hours tops must have caused irreparable heartache to our womanizing hoebag captain who sleeps with a different girl every week. And for some reason Kirk is sadder here than he was for longer, more fulfilling romances (Edith, Miramanee) he had with real women that ended worse. (I guess I could hand wave this by saying it's the combined forces of all these heartaches weighing on him, but that's a bit of a stretch.) Then Bones goes to town on Spock for being incapable of love? Wtf? Again, that's totally out of character. Bones explicitly stated in a previous episode that he sees right through Spock's facade. Spock engages in some non-consensual mind melding and memory erasing after Bones leaves. Again, this is pretty out of character. Kirk always says people need struggle and adversity to truly live, and always refused any other way. Now Spock is going against the captain's own wishes because he feels bad for him? It's his fault in the first place for hiding the fact that the captain's weekly conquest was a robot until the last minute. Then he makes it worse by screwing with Kirk's memories and feelings without permission or even Kirk's knowledge of the fact. Maybe it's a Vulcan lullaby. Maybe it's mindrape. Maybe this episode is really stupid.

RandomThoughts

@Outsider65 Nice thoughts on this episode. The more I read your commentary, the more I thought of some of the earlier TOS novels, where the author had just the basic idea of what Star Trek was about, and wrote a novel that was totally out of character. And Roddenberry wasn't there during the third season, if I recall correctly, to keep things from running off the rails... Have a great day... RT

I've followed Jammer's reviews for YEARS, and I mean years - since he first started reviewing Trek. And on the whole I agree with a lot of his opinions. But man..... I think some of his TOS reviews are wildly off the mark - especially with Season 3. Many of his low scoring episodes I've really enjoyed and several of his higher scored episodes I've thought were awful..... including this one. The premise of Flint was a fascinating concept, this lonely man who had been so many pivotal figures in human history..... but it was totally undone by the incredibly out-of-character behaviour of Kirk. I do not buy for one second that our heroic captain, with the lives of all his crew on the line, would suddenly risk everything because he's decided he's in love with a woman he's met for an hour..... It is so wildly out of character it completely ruins the episode. Spock is chastising him throughout the entire episode - I expected him at one point to yell "Jim, you are acting incredibly unprofessionally - unbecoming of a starship captain". And the less said about "Stay out of it Spock, we're fighting over a woman" the better. Can you imagine any military, political or civil leader uttering those words ever. And then at the end, Spock removes Kirk's memories without permission!!!!!!! That is a serious violation or assualt, and again completely out of character for Spock. What had the potential to be a 3 or 4 star episode is reduced down to a 1 star for the awful, awful characterisation.

JJ not Abrams 8-)

If nobody else has pointed out ... the obvious source of the infection is Kirk fooling around on some lovely planet LOL

I think "Requiem for Methuselah" is a good but not great TOS episode. Of the four solid TOS shows (the others are "Mirror Mirror," "By Any Other Name," and "Day of the Dove") written by the great Sci-Fi author Jerome Bixby, it's undoubtedly the weakest and most cerebral, but there's some intriguing and moving stuff here. Jammer's 3-star rating and review seem like a fair assessment to me, even though I agree that he underrates some other very entertaining episodes compared to this one. This show did remind me of the Lal episode from TNG, but I think the notion of an android shorting out when it achieves human emotion is done better here. In particular, I like how Rayna's character is treated with intelligence and dignity here rather than some of the slapstick humor that Lal provides, and I'm sorry that some viewers seemed to miss that the "two men fighting over a woman" thing at the end is actually presented in a self-critical light as the woman in question firmly declares her freedom to make her own choices in life -- a scenario quite different from most shows of the 1960s where the woman would have declared herself the prize of the victor. If one watches this episode and genuinely thinks it's misogynistic, one is missing the point that the episode presents the misogynist attitude of Kirk and Flint simply to discredit it: In the end, Rayna belongs to neither of them, and her choice not to choose one of them defies the programming of her "owner." I likewise appreciate that "Requiem" foreshadows Data's striving to be more human on TNG and recalls "Measure of a Man" in some of the polemics at the end. And I love Spock's quiet expression of care for Kirk with the mind meld at the end, which didn't feel out of character at all to me, as we don't even know what "forget" meant exactly. I interpreted it as Spock alleviating Kirk's pain more than removing it entirely or wiping his memory. It's a sweet and gentle moment that Nimoy wisely underplays as a quiet rebuttal of McCoy's condescending harangue. Of course, the show drags in the middle, and some of the romance sequences do feel perfunctory. But the mystery of the reclusive man who simultaneously sets up Kirk with his female companion and feels jealous about it is generally enough to hold one's attention until the big revelations at the end. For what is essentially a high-concept story ("immortal man builds the perfect woman and strives to make her love him") that recalls Brannan Braga's work from later Trek series, Bixby brings a remarkable sensitivity and balance to the character dilemmas in this story, and his dialogue makes you think in places where it could have been so much more superficial. This one is a bit of an underrated gem for me. By the way, check out the little callback to this episode by Captain Janeway in Voyager's "Concerning Flight," where she says James T. Kirk claimed to have met Leonardo Da Vinci, whom Janeway has befriended on the holodeck. Apparently, Kirk's memory of these events remained intact after Spock's mind meld, or else he wouldn't have been claiming such things in his official report.

ChristineNotChapel

Good catch Trek Fan. I like to think that Spock removed only Kirk's love for Rayna, not the entire experience of meeting Flint. Maybe since she was an android and he may have felt embarrassed at not having detected her non-humanity, Spock though it prudent to remove his unrequited love so he wouldn't angst over it needlessly.

This is a weird episode -- a very interesting premise of a near-immortal man who has been all these great historical figures trying to create a woman of his equal manipulating Kirk to get her to have emotions. But there are some things I didn't like -- how Kirk quickly falls in love with Reyna. That was very unnatural and then he's willing to fight over her. Another thing I didn't like is how Spock somehow knows what "kills" her -- that she can't tolerate the emotions of her love for Kirk or whatever she felt for Flint. How does he surmise all this?? This can only be speculation -- which is out of character for Spock. The episode meanders a fair bit but the concept of a man like Flint is an pretty amazing. He certainly pulls off some remarkable tricks like immobilizing the Enterprise. He was Brahms and da Vinci but yet he throws the first punch at Kirk. Kirk's acting in this episode is really out of character - at the end being so lost because of losing Reyna, knowing full well she was an android. And then Spock cures it with a mind-meld... Bit of a reset button here, which I'm never a fan of, but also out of character for him. "Requiem for Methusalah" was definitely not done on the cheap, seems to me with the elaborate sets and backdrops. It is inspiring given how so many episodes come across as low budget. I'd give this episode 2.5 stars -- interesting premise and plot but again, poorly executed with Kirk and Spock really acting out of character to varying extents. A missed opportunity here.

A pretty daring feminist message, and a lot of good ideas, get wasted in this episode. Did Kirk have to be that unhinged? Did the villain have to be that powerful? Did the Enterprise have to be shrunk yet again? In hindsight, Season 3 of TOS had the most highbrow, SF ideas, but motched most of them.

These are the voyages of captain Kirk. His five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life ... and pork it, wheter it's human or alien, organic, robot or android.

This episode also reminded me of TNG's The Survivors", as Flint has a very Kevin Uxbroge vibe about him, both in his crankiness and his immense power, what with the planet consisting of just his house. Heck, there's even a scene where they dance a waltz! I almost wish Flint had revealed himself to be a Douwd...though he's not immortal and clearly can't perish a civilization with a thought...

I found this to be a tragic love story, Shakespearean in scope, about two men---one an immortal who had lived thousands of lives and the other a very human 23rd-century man, both in love with a woman whose one flaw, a major one, was that she was not human. Following this tale I was sharply reminded of Offenbach's opera "Tales of Hoffman", in which Act One finds the poor goof falling for a woman who turns out to be a robot. I sensed that Flint had bitten off more than he could chew, and he made a costly error in throwing Captain Kirk and Rayna together, because she (it?) not only learned human emotions but also human desires such as freedom of choice, and it was her inability to choose that ultimately destroyed her: her last words were "I...love..." Of course, Kirk was really hit hard by the whole thing and when he returned to the Enterprise he disconsolately shut himself up in his room. The ending is one in which I had to choke up because it was so beautiful; Spock and Dr. McCoy had been discussing the situation, and just before Bones left the room he said sadly "I do wish he could forget her"---and I caught an undertone in his voice which told me that he was giving Spock the green light to do what he could to help. And Spock did; he performed not only an act of compassion but also a powerful psychological save---a quiet mind-meld, a whispered suggestion, and a telepathic block to give Kirk the time he needed to recover his emotional equilibrium. And I thought, "If that isn't love, what is?"---I witnessed a demonstration of just how deeply Spock cared for his commanding officer.

I regret my earlier comments; watching this a second time, about a year after first seeing it, I now find it a powerful and affecting episode. It also has one of Trek's great villains in Flint, and a nicely tragic ending (the death of the android, and Spock's gesture of compassion/love). I think most TOS episodes benefit from rewatches. You need to get an initial feel for what the episode is attempting, you need time to get over your assumptions, and you need time to assimilate some of the hokiness. In "Requiem for Methuselah", this entails accepting that Kirk's going to fall madly in love within the space of ten minutes, a floating robot and a shrunk Enterprise. You accept these minor "problems", and this plays like an excellent, soulful tragedy in the vein of season 1's underrated "Conscience of the King". What I also like is how subtly hilarious this episode is. You have a guy, Flint, who basically literally was Da Vinci, Moses, Brahms, maybe even Beethoeven, Ghandi, Jesus and Mother Teresa. He's an immortal creature trying to live the best possible life and so teach humans how not to be giant jerks. But of course he gives up - you stupid humans! - and exiles himself on another planet, where he lives in a mansion and bitterly fumes about the stupidity of man whilst building himself a hot robot chick to live with. A hundred years later Kirk comes along and steals his robot babe. Even a hundred years in the future, humans are ruining poor Flint's day!

@Trent, I think you missed the point of the episode. Flint is not a villain. Yes, he uses Kirk and causes him to have his heart broken, but he's not evil and deliberately trying to inflict harm or achieve some other nefarious goal. I think @Philadlj's comment re. the similarities between Flint and Kevin Uxbridge from "The Survivors" is helpful, although the 2 had different purposes. Uxbridge wanted to be left alone and Flint did too, until Kirk fell into his lap and so he tried to use him to give Rayna the ability to love like a real human. Also I don't see how you can characterize an episode can be "subtly hilarious" but predominantly a "soulful tragedy". This episode is meant to be, as @ZITO CARNO says, "a tragic love story".

It seems to me this is basically the typical Pygmalion story, where the newly created person exceeds what the creator wanted and surpasses him. In this case she doesn't surpass him intellectually but rather emotionally, needing something other than him to love. In that sense I'd say it's definitely not a comedy, since Pygmalion is in its essence not funny at all (and actually I don't think the play is funny despite Shaw's attemps to make it so). And while I wouldn't call Flint a villain, exactly, he does have the trait Pygmalion does of esteeming himself so highly that other people are like gnats before him. This results in his concept that only "his equal" could satisfy him, and that he must create that equal. They gave Flint the 'superior case' of that, being absolutely speaking a superior individual to Pygmalion, who only had his vanity to brag about. Flint has something real to brag about, if we want to put it that way, but I think the point is that these accomplishments are nothing at all to brag about when it makes you belittle all life besides yourself. He's 'missed the point', if you will, and if anything his intellectual powers made it harder for him than for anyone else to recognize his own weakness. From that perspective it's more the story of a fool than a villain, although we might call him a villain insofar as he's an example of what attitude not to have. And I suppose I agree with Rahul that Kirk stealing 'his babe' isn't funny or meant to be funny, but is a reflection of how sad a person Flint is. I also don't even think it needs explaining why Kirk falls for her so quickly; she's described as being the height of intellectual powers, equal to Flint, and is lovely and wanting to learn how to love. We don't even have to see Kirk as a horndog to explain this attraction; there is ample reason to actually admire her and also feel for her difficulties. She's literally the perfect, yet lonely, woman, looking for someone who loves life and loves women. Well hello, I don't know how Kirk could even resist this. I'd have to watch this one again to see if I can detect some subtle humor in it such as Trent describes, but offhand I don't recollect anything like that.

I have to disagree with most of the comments, and say this is one of my favorite episodes, James Daly is perfect as flint.My only nitpick is the piece that spock plays would never be written by brahms,who was a classical composer,the piece that spock plays is a simple baroque dance number,something a court composer would have thrown together for some get together the king was throwing.

Other Chris

I know it was impossible as I hoped for it, but I still really wish Rayna would have rejected both men, hopped on a starship and took off to do her own thing. Instead they killed her. Oh well. Let's get back to lovesick Kirk, before he's off to his next lady conquest of the week.

Awful. The concept was great, but again, the execution was an utter failure. So much stupid it's impossible to list it all, though the worst part was the "romance." Ugh. Well below average.

The overall premise was great, but certain story elements were off. I really liked the Flint character, who is revealed to have been Brahms, DaVinci, Alexander, Lazarus, and others. The Lazarus reference was particularly interesting from a theological perspective: that would the best friend of a young (pre-ministry) Jesus who died and was resurrected didn’t actually benefit from a miracle, but from his own power of regeneration. I guess most of the audience back then missed the implications, or it certainly would have created some controversy back then. The fascinating concept of a super-long-lived genius plagued by loneliness and needing to manipulate Kirk and company into staying a bit longer to spur the emotions of his android creation was so inventive—yet Kirk’s character was so off that it marred the episode. Sure, he’s always been one to fawn over any new young woman with an elaborate hairdo and shimmering outfit, but he also is always first and foremost cognizant of his duty to his ship and crew. How many times have we seen him deliberately lead a woman on to save his ship? In one notable episode, he completely played on the emotions of a Romulan captain to steal her cloaking device technology. Kirk is a ladies man, yes, but he also always puts duty first. In this episode, we have Spock continually reminding him that there is a plague raging and the entire crew will die, and at best this distracts him only momentarily? I don’t buy it. It’s poor writing. Equally poor writing was seen in McCoy’s cruel digs at Spock near the end. Usually, the banter is good natured and only highlights the respective strengths of these two. This time, however, McCoy’s pity that Spock can never love, nor even understand the term, when even an android can, was unnecessary and completely unwarranted. I was expecting Spock to point out that at least not being foolishly blinded by such an emotion meant saving the crew from death, but he made no response. It’s especially odd given the obvious refined sensibilities and appreciation for art that Spock had just shown. Here is a person who knows the work of Brahms intimately (even down is to the composer’s handwriting) and who knows the brush stroke style of DaVinci, but is still emotionally stunted according to McCoy? Where did the doctor get that idea?

Neo the Beagle

As I write this (8/6/20) today is the 80th birthday of Louise Sorel, who played Rayna. Since Shatner is still alive (89yrs old), it's not too late for Kirk and Rayna to get together after all!

Thanks @Outsider65 for pointing out all the bullshit in this episode. @Jammer really dropped the ball on this review. As lots of folks (@SteveRage, @Rahul, @Paul, @SPOCKED, @Joseph B, @Sean) have pointed out, our heroes were acting ridiculously out of character in this episode. Not sure why @Jammer didn’t catch that - very, um, out of character ;) @Peter G. has a good point, this episode could have been a good take on Pygmalion. But sadly the execution fell apart, not the least because of Spock's ridiculous explanatory exposition (she died of love) and Spock's decision to mind-rape Kirk (wtf!). I hate to say this, but ENT actually did a much better job in “Exile,” https://www.jammersreviews.com/st-ent/s3/exile.php Since, there were many copies of Rayna, maybe they could have just given each person their own copy? https://media.tenor.com/images/cb189c4f9e5cec51a1400b1454053fb2/tenor.gif Unless, that is, Flint had something like this in mind, https://fastly.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1292xauto/public/2017/09/gettyimages-138405820.jpg @Paul, I couldn’t agree with you more: "this is one of the most disappointing -- though not among the worst -- episodes of TOS. It's an amazing premise.” 2 stars. Barely.

@ Mal, I think this was actually a superior *premise* to that of Pygmalion, insofar as we get a sci-fi setting with the potential for life-forms to become superior in a technical sense. In the Shaw play (and My Fair Lady) what we're really dealing with is bourgeois or upper class values and gloating about having them while the masses are 'uneducated', valuing fine diction as some sort of moral virtue, and parading it around like a fancy cloak. To the extent that Pygmalion succeeds, I'm not even certain what to say about it being a material improvement in a timeless sense; certainly within that society she has been moved upwards. But in Requiem we are given the idea that an actually superior person with heightened intelligence and artistic sense tries to create an equal. And this is not even pygheaded like in the Shaw play and the musical, because I can completely understand someone with an IQ of 300 feeling like he has nothing in common with normal people. As an analogy, I remember some depictions of Quicksilver in Marvel material (cartoons/comics, not the films) where he describes how SLOW everyone else is and how aggravating it is to interact with them in any way. When put in a situation like that I could imagine Quicksilver wanting to meet someone as quick as him so they could play tennis at real speed, and likewise for Flint wanting someone he could actually spend time with and not keep thinking about what a moron they are. So this premise is quite nice, even sad. How could such a man, immortal and brilliant, ever find a way out of feeling totally alone? As you say, the execution is not great, but I don't think it's as bad as you say, either. The ending is really clunky and this harms our feeling of the episode coming out of it. It's like in music - mess up the beginning and the end and people will have a tough time remembering that the middle was good. And I think the middle of this one was good. I especially like the quiet tone and simple conversational scenes where they meet Flint and are being shown around. Sure, there is some 'action' just for the sake of action, with a deadline just for the sake of a deadline. It would have probably worked better if there was no ulterior motive for being here and we got to spend all the time meeting Flint and Rayna. So I'd say I like half of the episode quite a bit, and the other half is Frankenstein's monstered onto it which drags it down.

Oh @Peter G., I see what you’re saying. I was actually going off a much older version of Pygmalion (maybe two thousand years older!). As depicted in one of my favorite paintings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerome_pygmalion-galatee.jpg There, Pygmalion is a sculptor, and it is the sculpture he creates that comes to life, and he falls in love with that sculpture. For obvious reasons, this ancient greek myth fits the robot Rayna a little better than Shaw’s play. By the way, Shaw’s twisted (and equally famous) version is also a very old arch-type, which you see in other classics, like The Tale of Genji (only a thousand years older than Shaw’s play ;) In any case, yes, to the extent that I love Ovid’s version of the story as depicted in the painting, I agree, “Requiem” is an even better set up than the Shaw play. Shaw’s play (and Genji, for that matter) strike me as very creepy (just my personal opinion). Whereas “Requiem” and Ovid’s version is a little like Pinocchio; the sculpture turns into a real woman. With the twist that then the creator falls for his own creation. Not at all “pygheaded”. And of course the theme of a robot turning into a real person with feelings takes us straight to Data. I am harsh on this episode not at all because of the set up. And I agree with you 100% that the measured tone is a pleasure to watch. I love your analogy to Quicksilver. It reminds me of one of my favorite DS9 episodes, Statistical Probabilities. There, Julian is so excited the first time he gets to interact with people who are his intellectual equals, BASHIR: They really are quite brilliant, though. I mean, once we actually started working, it was incredible. We were all on the same wavelength, talking in shorthand, finishing each other's sentences. I've never had that with anyone else. O'BRIEN: After being with them, I can see how the rest of us must seem a little uncomplicated. BASHIR: I wouldn't say that, exactly. More like slow. O'BRIEN: Ha, ha. Must very be frustrating for you. BASHIR: I don't mind. Makes me feel superior. O'BRIEN: Glad to be of service. BASHIR: I appreciate it. It's not always easy walking amongst the common people. I can appreciate how Julian and Flint felt, which is why "Statistical Probabilities” is so dear to me. Perhaps that is yet another reason why I’m so harsh on “Requiem”. Instead of actually exploring what Kirk, Bones and Spock would be like around someone as incredible as Flint, they each act so out of character, that it defeats the entire purpose of the episode. Depicting Kirk and Spock the way they did would be as if Data were plonked in front of his own intellectual peers, only to get drunk and babble on about his ex-girlfriend from In Theory. It would have been a ridiculous waste. https://youtu.be/mg8_cKxJZJY

Interesting to see how Enterprise handles Space-Covid. Kirk doesn’t give a rats about social distancing and gets right up in Flint’s grill. I guess that what you get for sicking a vicious spaghetti colander laser blaster bot on a feller with no warning. Kirk always negotiates from a position of strength. Gun boat diplomacy. He going to take Methuselah’s hydroxyl chloroquine no matter what. So human. Watching TOS and wondering what kind of weapons and technology will exist on the Starships of the nations in the future after all of us here are gone, is very worrisome. Obviously this exact scenario in a deadly future pandemic is going to happen. I don’t think our germ fears and future super-dooper weapons are going to mix well... Did Rayna own a flat screen TV? And man is she hot. And of course, Kirk totally violates her bubble. And snoop dawgs her house. Manners Kirk. Manners. Should have guessed that Spock is an art and classical music snob...Fascinating. A Highlander, Androids, shrink rays, sentient A.I., a love triangle, Spock showing tenderness and best of all, old guy whoops Kirk’s ass. This episode was awesome.

Wow this was bad. Falling hopelessly in love with a robot in the space of two hours. Iknow Kirk is a hound dog but his behavior here was just wrong. He says tha Flint used him but he was a willing patsy. And then Spock just mind wipes him while he's sleeping. Lol I guess you can make this stuff up.

While watching this episode I was suffering ADHD quite badly. I needed a dose of Ritalin but selfishly Kirk had taken all the supplies to use it on a contagion that it couldn’t possibly have any effect on. Sigh. I agree with all the comments that said this was an episode with great potential but sadly wasted. I half remembered that Rayna was an android (long time no see!) and I thought she acted the part very well- non-comprehending reactions to Kirk’s first kiss, for example. The idea that she would self-destruct when faced with an impossible choice was more convincing than Data’s absurd artificial consciousness and “needs” in TNG. But the notion that a few-thousand-year-old genius who had created many of humanity’s greatest achievements would stoop to a fist fight over a woman (who wasn’t) is plainly ridiculous. And McCoy’s cruelty to Spock at the end was too much. The biggest laugh out loud moment? When Kirk stared through the view screen of the miniaturised Enterprise and saw the crew in suspension.. it’s not a window for heaven’s sake! Jammer was way too generous. 2 stars at best.

One more criticism - Kirk more head over heels in love than at any time in TOS , WITH AN ANDROID??? So he really is that superficial then, putting looks over personality every time?

This seemed like “Highlander”, where a character was going through time and loving as different men and pretending to die. You’d think if he wanted to remain secluded that he would not have had his works as DaVinci and Brahms in plain sight for travelers to see. They’d then want to make the place a tourist attraction. Yet another lovely lady to grace the show. It had potential but seemed slow. The show appeared on it’s last legs, I can see why there was no season 4. The miniature Enterprise was really cool, no doubt they used it in filming. I give it a C.

Jeffery's Tube

This only makes any sense if Kirk is suffering from the fever. Jeez. So many good ideas in this episode. Such a poor execution. If this had been done in the first or second season, with more production time, budget, and better story editors, I can only imagine what it might have been.

My favorite personal episode. Only for the concept of a being like Flint who has lived through so much history. Being immortal is the human dream and nightmare. James Daly was great casting.

Captain Kirk’s opening line last week in Lights of Zetar: “When a man of Scotty’s years falls in love, the loneliness of his life is suddenly revealed to him.” Captain Kirk’s closing line the next week in Methuselah: “A lonely old man, and a lonely young man. We put on a pretty poor show, didn’t we?” The common theme is striking. Going where no man has gone before, and serving in a mission where “risk, gentlemen, is our business!”, despite the thrills is not adequate compensation for giving up love and the permanence of family. Our beloved crew of the Enterprise are living lonely lives. The humility and genuineness of this admission, at this late stage of the series, is astounding and shows once again why TOS is distinguished from all the other Trek series.

@Lmo "The common theme is striking. Going where no man has gone before, and serving in a mission where “risk, gentlemen, is our business!”, despite the thrills is not adequate compensation for giving up love and the permanence of family. Our beloved crew of the Enterprise are living lonely lives." Sure but would they be happier with family and a desk job? For those guys it would probably be a very boring life. Furthermore, only because you choose "permanent family" doesn't mean that it will be a happy family. So what is better, an exiting but lonely life or a permanent but also boring family life?

@Booming: I do not disagree with you. All of life choices involve trade offs. I was just noting that these two successive episodes of TOS reveals that one of the trade offs for our main characters is loneliness. Or at least yearning for romantic attachment. That revelation might explain why Captain Kirk was acting so ridiculously in Methuselah. He was clearly embarrassed by his own behavior at the end of the episode. I wondered if what he wanted to forget was not Rayna, but the memory of his own desperation in the way he had behaved. It was touching that his suffering was ultimately relieved by his close friend Spock, who truly cares for him. In fact, Spock tried several times throughout the story to spare Kirk the emotional pain he saw developing.

Entertaining but too many leaps of logic for me to buy. A guy is just born immortal? He has been several historical figures? He just shows up as da Vinci one day and starts painting without anyone questioning his background, and then becomes Brahms? And Kirk needs to visit one of Quark's holosuites or take a cold sonic shower before away missions. Getting emotionally attached to every piece of tail that crosses his path does not befit a starship captain.

The last scene is interesting in its implications. McCoy suggests Spock is incapable of love, and then Spock administers the "forget" to Kirk, which is framed by the episode as an act of love. It is also nonconsensual, and even if it had been consensual it is an odd choice, one that goes counter to a lot of Kirk's usual gusto. I hate to bring up Star Trek V, but "I need my pain!" seems to define Kirk much more than an overwhelming desire to forget; for an in-series example, see "This Side of Paradise" for a quick demonstration of Kirk's absolute preference of messy reality over fantasy. This exactly.

This was my favorite episode, maybe because the idea of such intellect acquired over Melenia overshadowed the aforementioned flaws in the script, and the cherry on the top clearly was Spock's act of compassion at the end, "Forget" I will never forget this splendid episode. God Bless Gene Roddenberry, and He did. Ken

Always have to laugh when the doctor gets down to feel for the robots pulse HAHA

@William B, why and how do you mean TOS owes a lot to one movie Forbidden Planet?? It's not derivative of it I hope?

Heather Winter

I was looking for a comment about the very beginning of this episode but no one has pointed this out so I will. Out of all the uncharacteristic behavior of Kirk, the part I find most jarring is him demanding the Ritalen or be destroyed. That sounds like a mirror universe Kirk. He never displayed this demanding arrogance before or later. It’s just such a jarring beginning.

I have been reading excerpts from this and it's a great forum. I do want to bring up something because my biggest issue with this episode is Captain Kirk. The series makes a big production out of the Prime Directive, how important it is, almost to the point of being sacred. What I wonder, is why then, is the Prime Directive not important when it comes to dealing with people whose intelligence rivals or even exceeds that of the Federation? Shouldn't Flint and Rayna be protected by the same Prime Directive that protects beings who are not so advanced? The episode really raises the question of just how far Kirk would have gone had Flint not given him ryetalyn from the planet.

As mentioned above, watch Jerome Bixby's remake film of this "The Man From Earth". It's far superior and has several Trek regulars and guests. But this was ridiculous. Only McCoy is bothering to try to get the urgently needed antidote while Spock spends the whole episode looking at Flint's artworks and Kirk just tries to get in bed with robo girl. At least Kirk was in character-- until he later suffers crippling sadness over the girl he knew for two hours.

"I would like to point out the writer of this episode, Jerome Bixby further explored the concept of a immortal caveman who survived into modern times in the film: 'The Man from Earth'. It is basically a play and filmed in 2007 starring none other then Tony Todd and John Billingsley." Don't forget Ethan Phillips! I had no idea the writer was the same as this episode, neat. Funny enough I never even connected the two until just now even though I of course knew the subject matter of Requiem for Methusalah. Somehow the TOS episode just to convey its central concept (of an immortal human existing through the ages). I think the issue is: 1) The immortal is living on some alien world and not Earth; and 2) The focus on the android woman. The problem is you just forget who and what Flint is because he comes across as another weird alien like Apollo or something. There is scarcely anything human about him. Apart from the initial setup the implications of his existence scarcely matter. I think part of the problem is that Star Trek is just a terrible vehicle to convey the awe and wonder inherent in such an idea. Meanwhile the central concept (an immortal human living through the ages of man) is sidelined by the android plot. Anyway I loved The Man from Earth and am glad Bixby was able to explore this very cool scifi concept in a far more appropriate venue.

SOme parallels with the Companion (title forgotten) episode: a- a self exiled historic human leaves earth , disappears from history, and ends up on an isolated planet with an inhuman female with whom he has an ambiguous relationship ("I am Johannes Brahms. . . and da VInci . . . and Zefrem Cochrane...." "NIce try, we just met him a few planets ago")) b-- a disease's progress is pressuring their time c -- the first guy's immortality comes after leaving earth; hte second guy's comes from being on Earth d-- The female dies to become fully human

I've always had problems with this episode. The instalove of Kirk for Rayna - unlike his feelings for Edith Keeler (the implication is that he and Spock are there for a couple of weeks before McCoy arrives, she is a visionary and inspirational person, she has a warm, humorous manner) it doesn't seem credible that he goes head over heels with someone he knows for a few hours. She is so gauche and childlike it isn't a proper relationship even on his side. Despite the idea that the robot can produce the cure much more quickly than they could do it on the ship, they seem far too casual when they hang around waiting. And the episode veers off into pure fantasy with the idea of Flint being reborn and being able to shrink the Enterprise. Also, if he was a simple Mesopotamian soldier - a bully he says - how does he later develop the genius to become Leonardo Da Vinci? That I find totally incredible. I like the idea that Spock's action is an 'act of love' which repudiates McCoy's lecturing him just beforehand, although it does come across also as dodgy and non consensual. I always thought though that it wasn't a total mindwipe as it would cause practical problems if Kirk has amnesia about the whole time period. It's just the 'love' and I assume his guilt for her death that Spock is able to alleviate. But the three characters are quite out of character in this episode and it is also a bit odd that Spock suddenly turns out to be an accomplished pianist and also able to recognise the brush strokes of famous painters. So I find too many flaws in this to be able to really enjoy it. One odd thing near the end is when Kirk refers to Rayna being human down to her red blood cells... so is she really what was called in Blade Runner a replicant? Because of course Philip K Dick's novel, on which that film was based, is called 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' - for the film they were changed to artificially created humans with enhancements but radically reduced lifespans. If Rayna were like this (only immortal of course) some of the story would make a bit more sense because she would be physically human, albeit very improved, but because she has been created as an adult (as seen from the failed earlier versions) hasn't had the experience of growing up and maturing and has inadequate emotional and social development. In which case the conflict of getting those emotions perhaps gave her a brain aneuryism. Just a thought!

I rather liked this particular episode. I found the Flint characters history to be fascinating. I also liked how Spock wiped the captain in the end. Now as for Rayna, I can't believe that there wasn't a Jetsons cartoon show where Kirk was caught making out with Rosie the robot. Limitless power!! Limitless!!

I'm rather with those who think that this episode has many problems. Usually I like episodes like this one which are driven by interaction and dialogue rather than action, but this doesn’t work well here. In addition to the logical leaps (I was quite impressed by the long list made by Outsider65 years ago), there’s too much out-of-character acting, and the love story is a particularly uninspired one. So, in the absence of simple and plain action (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing), there’s nothing that could carry the plot, and it quickly falls apart. However, there’s one saving grace, and that’s the writing style of the dialogue which in some moments has an almost lyrical quality. It starts with a description of the plague that sounds more like poetry than facts: “Constantinople, summer 1334. It marched through the streets, the sewers. It left the city by ox cart, by sea, to kill half of Europe. The rats, rustling and squealing in the night as they, too, died. The rats.” I can’t remember having heard anything like it in any other episode, so this kind of sets this one apart. To be fair, it even backs Flint’s motives to have Rayna’s emotions stirred up by Kirk. When she asks Flint what loneliness is, he says: “It is thirst. It is a flower dying in the desert.” – and it clearly shows that her android mind can’t understand the metaphor. The world of poetry which means so much to Flint will never be accessible to her; while intellectually she clearly is his equal, spiritually they are living in different worlds, and this is the one thing Flint desperately wants to change. And speaking of poetry, I also like McCoy’s description of “the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories.” Sounds like he knows what he’s talking about…

I've always liked this one, but apparently my wife loves it. I'm happy to hear that, because it's a more thoughtful one than I think people give it credit for. There is honestly far too much good material crammed into here to fit in the time allotted, so it can be forgiven for skipping over certain details. For instance we could complain that Kirk falls in love too easily and without any explanation. But we are meant to understand that Flint has created a delay precisely in order to give Kirk time to develop feelings for Rayna, and vice versa, so this complaint is actually asserted as a premise: they *do* have enough time. If this had been a feature-length film it could have been drawn out into weeks instead of hours, so I think this complaint is really just a result of them not having any other way to do it in a TV episode. Another complain is how little interest Kirk and McCoy seem to have that they are literally talking to Da Vinci, Brahms, Alexander the Great, etc. Only Spock is afforded the chance to marvel at it, but again, if this was given its proper treatment we'd have scene after scene of them grilling him, explaining how it's hard to believe, and if they believed him, asking to know about his life. All of that is realistic, but wouldn't fit into a TV episode, especially since the episode is really about Rayna rather than Flint. That fact is itself a marvel: can you imagine writing in a character like this and *not* having it be about how amazing it is that this guy exists? But no, it's about how even someone like that can no more control someone else's feelings than we can. For a story that really is about the immortal man, there's a film called The Man from Earth, which is basically this story but feature-length and all about the immortality of the man. Incidentally, that film somewhat lacks imagination. We might also connect Methuselah with Pygmalion, which I have to expect they were deliberately channeling: great man wants to create a woman equal to himself, but she surpasses him and leaves him behind. In this case, Rayna does surpass Flint in 'humanity', but since it focuses on her weakness rather than her strength it doesn't go the route that Pygmalion does in its final moral. Also, I don't think that Spock's remark about how the pains of love were too much for her connects with any theme Pygmalion is about, so if there's a similarity between these stories it's mostly to be found in the megalomaia of Flint. More than those stories, though, I was reminded of TNG's the Offspring when watching this. They are both about immortal beings creating an android, yes, but the crux of each is the same: the sheer brilliance of the new being is overshadowed by her lack of feeling the fulness of being alive, and at the critical juncture the overwhelming flood of emotion was too much for their neural nets. In Methuselah they frame as the pains of love being too great, and in Lal's case it's the tech side, but in both cases we are primarily see that situation through the eyes of those who love them: Kirk and Data, each in their own way. The grief of Kirk is highlighted through his pain, and Data's through his lack of pain. I'll mention one observation I have about the final scene, that has been cast so often as Spock violating Kirk's mind without his permission. Right before that Kirk says he wishes he could forget. McCoy then berates Spock for not knowing love and not understanding its positive and negative aspects. McCoy leaves, satisfied that Spock is left out of the matter, unable to understand what love is and what the Captain is going through. He then also remarks that he wishes Kirk could forget. Spock's next action is to go help Kirk forget. That this immediately follows having been told that he knows nothing of love cannot be an accident: it's a mercy, and one born of the same kindness that caused him to risk his career to offer Captain Pike a respite from his suffering. One can argue that it's not actually a kindness to forget something painful, but that's really a separate argument. Assuming that Kirk truly did wish he could forget, Spock was granting that wish. Doing so without asking permission is one way to frame it; doing so without being asked to do the good deed is another. I think the writing expects us to understand it in the latter way, that a good deed done without solicitation or recognition is the purist kind. That you may disagree that this is a good deed at all is understandable, but essentially rejects a premise the episode is asserting as a given. I will also note that the grief Kirk is being relieved of is the same as that which killed Rayna just beforehand, so the episode is likewise inviting us to this as not only being a kindness, but perhaps something that could save the Captain from destroying himself mentally.

The world of poetry which means so much to Flint will never be accessible to her; while intellectually she clearly is his equal, spiritually they are living in different worlds, and this is the one thing Flint desperately wants to change. Despite what Flint wants, even what Kirk wants out of this android, the fact remains. She will always be an android to both of them, and eventually both men will come to the conclusion that she cannot be their equal.

In the final scene, Spock steals the one thing from Kirk that might have let him learn from the experience and grow as a person. What a letdown.

Far better than reviews above would have you believe. I have always liked this one.

I think this is a 4 star episode. Yes, it has some problems, as people pointed above. But, can we really complaint about things like the "instant love" plots? C'mom, we are at episode 19 of season 3; if a hot girl appears, kirk will try to bang it — this is not "problems" this is just what trek IS, in it's core hahaha, and by now no one can be expecting anything diferent. And I think this episode has a interesting theme in his intro: can a man claim property of an entire planet, and refuses others to access ressources to save their lives? There is a really interesting debate in there — and I liked a lot the way Kirk just bypassed that with mutual destruction terms haha

@F ""And I think this episode has a interesting theme in his intro: can a man claim property of an entire planet, and refuses others to access ressources to save their lives? """ There is also another interesting theme in this episode. Can a man make a claim on property that is clearly owned by another? This is not the Next Generation, where an android is legally declared an entity with rights. This is an android constructed by Methuselah, and clearly she belongs to Methusaleh. Kirk's feelings are no matter in this episode.

@ Winnie, "There is also another interesting theme in this episode. Can a man make a claim on property that is clearly owned by another?" In context of it being an android like Data or Lore I think you'd need a strong case for their sentience to tell Dr. Soong he isn't allowed to keep them at his compound but has to let them do as they please. Then again another case could be made that a 'new' android is like a child and is under the guardianship of the creator/parent until they're passed a certain maturity level. In context of this episode I don't believe Rayna is an android in the sense of being filled nothing but processors and microchips. From the details given she is artificial but human, with human parts. Flint essentially constructed a human from scratch: MCCOY: Physically human but not human. These are earlier versions of Rayna, Jim. She's an android. And later: KIRK: She's human. Down to the last blood cell, she's human. Down to the last thought, hope, aspiration, emotion, she's human. The human spirit is free. You have no power of ownership. She's free to do as she wishes. Maybe Kirk is just speaking poetically, but it seems to me Kirk wouldn't have kept on fighting for her if she was literally just a robot. The situation seems to be that she may have been built by Flint but she's for all purposes a human now and therefore cannot be his property.

@Peter G ""In context of this episode I don't believe Rayna is an android in the sense of being filled nothing but processors and microchips. From the details given she is artificial but human, with human parts. Flint essentially constructed a human from scratch: MCCOY: Physically human but not human. These are earlier versions of Rayna, Jim. She's an android. And later: KIRK: She's human. Down to the last blood cell, she's human. Down to the last thought, hope, aspiration, emotion, she's human. The human spirit is free. You have no power of ownership. She's free to do as she wishes. Maybe Kirk is just speaking poetically, but it seems to me Kirk wouldn't have kept on fighting for her if she was literally just a robot. The situation seems to be that she may have been built by Flint but she's for all purposes a human now and therefore cannot be his property."" Flint could not have created a human from scratch because any human parts would have decayed on the models that didn't make the cut. As we saw, they were in the room on gurneys, much like mannequins. I see Rayna as an android with a human like exterior. Even Star Fleet in TNG took the view that Data was property and not a sentient being. In reality, if Star Fleet was going to take Data on as a crew member, that should have been well documented before he ever stepped aboard a starship. Kirk was speaking poetically, and one has to wonder: Just what would he have done if Rayna had agreed to come with him? First and foremost, she belonged to Flint. It's his planet and his android. Would Kirk have murdered Flint if he refused to let Rayna go? I do believe he would have murdered Flint to get the ryetalin.

@ Winnie, "Flint could not have created a human from scratch because any human parts would have decayed on the models that didn't make the cut. As we saw, they were in the room on gurneys, much like mannequins. I see Rayna as an android with a human like exterior." I can see that interpretation. What I was saying is that there's a decent reason to believe it's not a given but has been left open. In other words I'm not so much arguing that Rayna is definitely a flesh and blood human as there is some evidence to suggest it. I would argue that the existence of the other prototypes on the table (a) doesn't necessarily imply that the current Rayne is just like them, and (b) should maybe not be taken that literally. I doubt the writers were interested in inspecting what would happen to biotech that sits on a table for a while, would it rot, etc. That's just not the point the episode is trying to make. Since I take this to be a Pygmalion-inspired story, I think the main thrust of the plot is that that which is created may reject the creator, and that just because you 'made' someone doesn't mean you own them. That fact that he literally made Rayna in this case is a sci-fi element, but thematically I think it's less relevant than the fact that she's the way Flint wanted her and therefore she is made for him. Flint seems certain she should be with him not because he was the owner of the parts used to assemble her, but because they are both immortal and she has been designed to be a match for him. In other words he sees her as the ideal wife according to his desire, and that is why she should rightfully be with him. Any force he's willing to exert to defend that desire could be justified as 'ownership' but really I think it's about him believing his desires are the ultimate artiber of what should happen. It's a power thing. He wasn't Alexander the Great for no reason, after all.

@ Peter G. ""I would argue that the existence of the other prototypes on the table (a) doesn't necessarily imply that the current Rayne is just like them, and (b) should maybe not be taken that literally. I doubt the writers were interested in inspecting what would happen to biotech that sits on a table for a while, would it rot, etc. That's just not the point the episode is trying to make."" I don't think the creators were trying to show the merits of a plastic Rayna versus one made of organic materials either. In my opinion, the scene of the various Raynas in the mysterious room was a shock value scene: Rayna's an android who's come from a rather long line of androids. ""Since I take this to be a Pygmalion-inspired story, I think the main thrust of the plot is that that which is created may reject the creator, and that just because you 'made' someone doesn't mean you own them. That fact that he literally made Rayna in this case is a sci-fi element, but thematically I think it's less relevant than the fact that she's the way Flint wanted her and therefore she is made for him.""" You know, I truly wish this had been a Pygmalion based story, without the Flint-Kirk hormones thrown in for good measure. That would have raised it as among the best of the Star Trek episodes in my opinion. ""Flint seems certain she should be with him not because he was the owner of the parts used to assemble her, but because they are both immortal and she has been designed to be a match for him. In other words he sees her as the ideal wife according to his desire, and that is why she should rightfully be with him.""" Very well put. TOS has dealt with the android issue, and in my opinion, handled it rather poorly. Androids, if they're female, are put in TOS realm as mechanisms of servitude. They're also beautiful and sexy, and they're on some dark and dreary planet that no one else cares to populate. They're also easy to replace, which makes them dispensable. While we don't know if the previous "Raynas" were organic or not, there is something else we don't know about them. Any one of them may have been strolling around Flint's mansion, just like the current model.

I believe Rayna is supposed to be organic, and human, but "soulless", or "emotionless" — and that's why Flint took the crew arrival to try to "wake" her by contact with them. (Yes, there is some "preservation issue" with organic copies, as winnie pointed out, but I think that is wanting a little too much for a 70's show with serious budget constraints. We can just picture Rayna being in some cryopreservation capsules and that would not have being a stretch). Now, she being organic or not, we indeed have a interesting debate, because Flint, either way, made (or "produced") her. Is that enough to claim property? I don't think so, and to think about that would take us on what makes beings have rights, self ownership and all of that. And that's why I like Star Trek: even if the episode doesn't go deep into these questions, they are always there as food for thought.

F wrote: ""Now, she being organic or not, we indeed have a interesting debate, because Flint, either way, made (or "produced") her. Is that enough to claim property? I don't think so, and to think about that would take us on what makes beings have rights, self ownership and all of that."" Interesting thoughts which raise a question in my mind. Did Rayna "die" or did she "malfunction"?

Wednesday night is TOS night. And it's starting to be a real chore. I'm going to put off the rest of the episodes for a while. I agree entirely with the first comment above, by Paul, from ten years ago. This wasn't so much a bad episode so much as a disappointing one. Downright frustrating and tiresome in the final act. 2/4

I have two basic problems with this episode: 1)Kirk falling in actual love. Not “I’m pretending to be in love in order to escape” kind of love, but actual cuckoo for cocoa puffs “let’s run away together” love. 2)Flint being all these famous dudes from history. Both these elements of the story are distracting and, more importantly, unnecessary. For the first point, the time scale is far too short for Kirk to tumble head over heels for Rayna. Particularly when the ship is in imminent danger and racing against the clock. This whole scenario defies everything we know about Kirk’s character. It would be perfectly fine for Rayna to become enamored with Kirk, he’s an extreme novelty for her, and her interest in him would still drive the drama, making Flint jealous and creating conflict. But to have Kirk turn into such a weirdo in the course of 2 hours is ridiculous and makes it tough to take the larger ideas in play seriously. The second point is one of those quirky ideas that, in my opinion, is too big to simply sit in the background. Flint as a sort of “highlander meets forest gump” persona, guiding humanity throughout its history would immediately become the main focus of attention in the room, easily surpassing some child-like hot lady wanting to talk about astrophysics or whatever. By having flint actually having been all these famous people and then not focusing more attention on it kind of buried the lead in my view. And once again, it’s not necessary. He could have simply been Methuselah of old, and maybe Lazarus(just for the sacrilegious implications), after which he might have sought anonymity but still witnessed all these great minds and even interacted with them. An unseen influence, imparting wisdom and ideas, but remaining in the shadows. I’d find that far more interesting and less distracting. Outside of those scripting missteps, there’s some cool ideas here. The true impact that immortality would have on a person, how lonely and cynical it could make someone. Definitely some food for thought. Then there’s the ending. What to make of Spock “forgetting” Kirk’s mind? On the one hand I’ve always taken that moment to be a quiet and unseen act of love for his friend, a repudiation of McCoy’s rather mean insistence that Spock can’t feel the more profound emotions of life. I was left with the impression that Spock basically wiped Rayna from Kirk’s mind. However, I think it’s fair to ask what exactly it was that Spock was causing Kirk to forget. And I think that it might be more specific than the memory of Rayna, but rather it might be targeted at Kirk’s shame and guilt over how he acted. Kirk’s guilt is his real suffering, he tried to possess rayna when he should have protected her. She was after all essentially a child in need of guidance and care, not a fully mature woman to chase after. I think that’s what he meant with his line “we put on a pretty poor show”. Overall, a bit clunky. However I do appreciate some of the more cerebral elements at work. 2/4 love induced android brain aneurysms.

Question: Do you think Flint was sterile? He talks about this long life and apparently was married or involved. However, he never talks about any children.

Neither Leonardo da Vinci nor Johannes Brahms had children, though Solomon is supposed to have several. I suppose this would be easy enough to fake, however.

The Flint character is very intriguing, but his rapid name dropping of his past selves feels a bit off. I can imagine him at the side of all those people (like Asimov's R Daneel Olivaw in the later Foundation books) but I find it hard to take that he's personally Alexander the Great, da Vinci and Brahms and many others... that's a lot for a guy that probably has to play things low key to not get noticed, and that's very eclectic even for an immortal genius.

@ Pete, From your post in VOY's Concerning Flight: "Isn't Flint the immortal also Leonardo? (Flint is a cool idea, but IMO they went overboard with the historical figures, and Jerome Bixby wanted to go ever further and make him Jesus himself)" Funny you should mention it, he went ahead and did that story anyhow: Wiki: "The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998.[2] It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, a departing university professor, who puts forth the notion that he is more than 14,000 years old. The entire film is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and consists almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members. The screenplay mirrors similar concepts of longevity which Bixby had introduced in "Requiem for Methuselah", a Star Trek episode he wrote which originally aired in 1969. The Man from Earth gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks, which raised its profile. The film was later adapted by Schenkman into a stage play."

@Peter G Yeah, I am a big fan of TMFE but left it out of my post. Apparently it was Bixby's Magnum Opus in his own estimation, the story he absolutely had to tell (he basically finished the script on his deathbed) Gene R has also always wanted the crew to literally meet God, but the producers would never allow it, so we got Apollo, Flint, Kukulkan, Lucien, and whatever that stupid thing in ST V was.

What did Kirk need to forget? That he fell in love with a blow up doll, or what he did to the doll? Throw a bunch of old episodes into a blender, press quick liquify for one second, and edit the pieces together. We get the omnipotent alternatingly benevolent then threatening humanoid being. We get a half Nomad and half ice cream maker malevolent spying levitating robot. We get more invisible medical pathogens and the urgency with which its antidote is imperative yet inconvenient. We get the same castle interior with previously seen props chairs and decorations placed in new positions. And the Captain has to jump start the female lead with his positive probe to get her horned up to the satisfaction of the boss. And as if they thought this was bad, the next eposide has Chekhov meeting his old flame who even talks with his outrageous accent...... because the audience at 10pm friday night only watched star trek and the monkees.

@Top Hat-"Neither Leonardo da Vinci nor Johannes Brahms had children, though Solomon is supposed to have several. I suppose this would be easy enough to fake, however". Methuselah had a son, at least from what I could find. The other few names he mentions did not reveal much. However, according to Flint, he married a hundred times. He goes on to say that he stayed with these various women through age and death. It seems impossible that there wouldn't be other children during his marriages. I can't imagine many children who also wouldn't be by his side at their mother's death.

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This List of fictional gynoids and female cyborgs is sorted by media type and alphabetised by character name. Gynoids appearing in both anime and manga are listed in the animation category. Gynoids have several other names in works of fiction, particularly in Japanese media, examples being cyberdoll, marionette, sexaroid, (female) boomer, and persocon, although the latter is the word for personal computers in Japanese.

  • 1 In cinema
  • 2 In television
  • 3 In animation
  • 4 In literature/comics/theatre
  • 5 In video games
  • 6 In music/miscellaneous

In cinema [ ]

  • Alice , from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  • Alita from Alita - Battle Angel (2019)
  • The Alienator, from Alienator (1989).
  • Alsatia Zevo, from Toys (1992).
  • Androids in Westworld (1973).
  • Annalee Call, from Alien Resurrection (1997).
  • Assorted gynoids, from Robot Stories (2003).
  • Ava, from Ex Machina (2014).
  • Pris, from Blade Runner (1982).
  • Rachael Tyrell, from Blade Runner (1982).
  • Zhora, from Blade Runner (1982).
  • Carl Petersen's Fembot Army in Some Girls Do (1969).
  • Cassandra, from Android (1982).
  • Chalmers, from Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983).
  • Cherry 2000, from Cherry 2000 (1987).
  • Clare Wren, from Steel & Lace (1991).
  • Conjugal visit fembots, from Escape from DS-3 (1981)
  • Dr. Goldfoot's girls in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966).
  • Dot Matrix, from Spaceballs (1987)..
  • Eve VIII, from Eve of Destruction (1991).
  • Fembots, from Austin Powers (1997, 1999, 2002).
  • Galatea, from Bicentennial Man (1999).
  • Galaxina, from Galaxina (1980).
  • Mia, from Humans (2015-2018).
  • Jessica, from Screamers (1995).
  • KAY-Em 14 , from Jason X (2001).
  • Kyoko, from Ex Machina (2014).
  • Lana and Greta, from Grid Runners (aka Virtual Combat ) (1994).
  • Lenore , from Serenity (2005).
  • Lisa, from Weird Science (1985).
  • Maria (aka Futura, Hel, or the Robotrix), perhaps the original film gynoid in Metropolis (1927).
  • Niya, from Humanoid Woman (aka Cherez ternii k zvyozdam ) (1981).
  • Olga, from The Perfect Woman (1949).
  • Pleasure droids in Cyberzone (1995).
  • Ilia, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture , after being converted into a nano-machine being by Vger (1979).
  • Bobbie Markowe in The Stepford Wives (1975).
  • Carol Van Sant in The Stepford Wives (1975).
  • Joanna Eberhart in The Stepford Wives (1975).
  • Replacement women in The Stepford Wives 2004 remake.
  • Syns, synthetic females from Future Syn (2004).
  • T-X (Terminatrix), from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
  • Cash Reese from Cyborg 2 (1993).

In television [ ]

  • Gynoid version of Calliope Jones on Days of our Lives (1985).
  • Andromeda, from A for Andromeda (1961) and The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962).
  • Doyle, from Andromeda (2004)
  • Lt. Jill Pearce, from the episode "The Mathematics of Tears" (2001).
  • Rommie, from Andromeda (2000 - 2004).
  • A.N.I. (Android Nurse Interface), from Mercy Point (1998 - 1999).
  • April and Buffybot , from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2004).
  • Ashley, from Cybergirl (2001 - 2002).
  • Number Three alias "D'Anna Biers".
  • Number Six alias "Shelley Godfrey", "Gina Inviere", "Natalie", or "Lida".
  • Number Eight alias "Sharon Valerii".
  • Tory Foster .
  • Ellen Tigh .
  • Betty, in "Directly from My Heart to You", an episode of Twisted Tales (1996).
  • Jaime Sommers from the original and the re-imagined series (1976 - 1978, 2007).
  • Sarah Corvus from the re-imagined series (2007).
  • Fembots, from the original TV series and The Six Million Dollar Man (1976, 1978).
  • Cameron , a Terminator programmed to protect the teenage John Connor, from The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008).
  • Chrome, the innuendo-spouting host of the short-lived HBO anthology series Perversions of Science .
  • Dina fembot, from the Wicked Science episode "Double Date" (2003).
  • Elly, from Ultraman Max (2005).
  • Eve Edison, from Mann & Machine (1992).
  • Mary 25, in " Mary 25 " an episode from The Outer Limits (1998).
  • Mona Lisa, in "Mona Lisa" an episode from The Outer Limits (2003).
  • Valerie 23, in " Valerie 23 " an episode from The Outer Limits (1995).
  • Rayna Armitraj, from Earth: Final Conflict (1997-2002).
  • Rhoda (aka AF709), from My Living Doll (1964 - 1965).
  • Maya robot replica, in the episode "The Taybor" (1976).
  • The Servant of the Guardian, in the episode "Guardian of Piri" (1975).
  • Zamara and other female Vegans, in the episode "One Moment of Humanity" (1976).
  • Andrea, in " What Are Little Girls Made Of? " an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).
  • Andromedan gynoids, in " I, Mudd " an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series (1967).
  • Dr. Juliana Tainer, a replica of Data's 'mother' in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Inheritance " (1993).
  • Lal, a 'daughter' built by Data , in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Offspring " (1990).
  • Losira replicants, in " That Which Survives " an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series (1969).
  • Rayna Kapec, in " Requiem for Methuselah " an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series (1969).
  • Ruth, in " Shore Leave " an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).
  • 7 of 9 Tertiery adjunct Unimatrix 01. Female Borg Drone, aka Annika Hansen. Star Trek: Voyager .
  • Borg Queen - Star Trek: Voyager - Star Trek: First Contact .
  • Samantha Carter Android and " RepliCarter ", from various episodes (1998, 2002, 2004).
  • Reese , in the episode " Menace " (2002).
  • Second, Fourth, and Sixth, in the episode " Unnatural Selection " (2003).
  • THELMA, from Space Cases (1996-1997).
  • Alicia, in " The Lonely ", an episode from The Twilight Zone (1959).
  • the Grandma robot in " I Sing the Body Electric ", an episode from The Twilight Zone (1959).
  • Verda, in "The Android Machine" and "Revolt of the Androids" episodes from Lost in Space (1966).
  • VICI and Vanessa from Small Wonder (1985-1989).
  • Sari Sumdac from Transformers Animated .

In animation [ ]

  • Nono from Aim for the Top 2! is a gynoid, later revealed to be Buster Machine no. 7 (2004-2006).
  • Rosie, from The Jetsons
  • Arale from Doctor Slump
  • Android 18 from Dragonball Z
  • Alpha, main character from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (1998).
  • 33-S 'Sexaroids' Sylvie, Anri, Lou, Meg and Nam from the original Bubblegum Crisis OVA (1987).
  • Additional female boomers (33-C and 55-C types) appearing throughout the series. (1987).
  • Chachamaru from anime/manga Mahou Sensei Negima!
  • Chii (Elda), from Chobits (2002).
  • Female-like persocoms, from Chobits (2002).
  • Freya, from Chobits (2002).
  • Dot Matrix, from ReBoot (1994-2001). -While an artificial female intelligence, Dot Matrix's gynoid status is debatable as she is simply the virtual representation of a computer mainframe's command.com program.
  • Elsa, from Demonbane (2004-2006).
  • Miscellaneous fembots, from Futurama (1999-2003).
  • Gally (aka Alita) , from Battle Angel Alita ( Manga 1991-1995, OVA 1993, Manga 2001 - ).
  • AnRyu, from GaoGaiGar Final (2000-2003).
  • KoRyu, from GaoGaiGar Final (2000-2003).
  • TenRyuJin (the combined form of AnRyu and KoRyu) , from GaoGaiGar Final (2000-2003).
  • Dolls, from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004).
  • Geisha robots, from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (first episode) (2002).
  • Operators from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (2002,2004).
  • Project 2501 host shell, from Ghost in the Shell (1995).
  • Harumi, gynoid and Raalgon spy placed aboard the Soyokaze , from Irresponsible Captain Tylor
  • Honey, the female main character of Go Nagai 's Cutie Honey media franchise , is a gynoid (often called a "Super Android") in most incarnations.
  • "Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman , other xj robots , and Melody from My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003-2009).
  • Jinmay from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
  • Kiku No. 8, from Wandaba Style (2003).
  • Kurumi, Saki, Karinka, and others from Steel Angel Kurumi (year?).
  • Lady Armaroid, from Space Adventure Cobra (Film, OVA 1982-1983, Manga 1990-1991).
  • Lesliebots, from The Venture Bros. episode "Past Tense" (2004).
  • Mahoro, from Mahoromatic 1-2 (2000-2003).
  • May, from Hand Maid May (2000).
  • Mecha Rinrin, from the bishōjo manga Sister Princess (2002?).
  • Melfina, from Outlaw Star ( Manga 1997-present, OVA 1998).
  • Naomi Armitage, from Armitage III (1997) .
  • Nuku Nuku and Eimi Yoshikawa from All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (1998).
  • Pixie, from Buttobi CPU (1997).
  • R. Dorothy Wayneright , from The Big O (1999 - ).
  • Robotica, from DuckTales episode Metal Attraction (1990).
  • Rya Botkins, from the animated web series Bonus Stage (2004-2005).
  • Bloodberry, from Saber Marionette R/J/J Again/J To X (1995-1999).
  • Cherry, from Saber Marionette R/J/J Again/J To X (1995-1999).
  • Lime, from Saber Marionette R/J/J Again/J To X (1995-1999).
  • Marine, from Saber Marionette J Again (1997).
  • Several additional 'marionettes' from Saber Marionette R/J/J Again/J To X (1995-1999).
  • Shinku, from Rozen Maiden (2004-2006).
  • Six of One, from Tripping the Rift (2004 - ).
  • Solty, from Solty Rei (2005-2006).
  • Tima, the mysterious girl in Metropolis (2001).
  • Transformers , such as Nightbird, Arcee , Elita One and Thunderblast (1984-1987).
  • Viral from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward

In literature/comics/theatre [ ]

  • Alkhema , the second bride of Ultron from Marvel Comics (1993).
  • Bathyscaphe and Haruna, intelligent spaceships capable of appearing in human shape in The World of Narue
  • Chachamaru Karakuri , a humoid female robot that passes off as a student at an all girls academy (where the main character teaches) in Mahou Sensei Negima! .
  • Cho, from Divine Endurance (1984).
  • Chworktap, an android modeled after Botticelli's The Birth of Venus , from Philip José Farmer 's novel Venus on the Half-Shell (1975).
  • Cinder (Linh Cinder), from The Lunar Chronicles
  • Cyanure, from Spirou et Fantasio
  • Danger , from Marvel Comics , formerly the X-Men 's Danger Room (2005).
  • Dee Model, from Ken MacLeod 's The Stone Canal (2001).
  • Disposable women, from an early issue of Mad Magazine (1950s).
  • Eve, Apple based robot girl from Applegeeks.com
  • Freya Nakamichi-47, a courtesan and courier, in Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (2008).
  • Hadaly, from Viller's de L'Isle Adam's novel L'Eve future (1879).
  • Helen O'Loy, from Lester del Rey 's novel Helen O'Loy (1938).
  • Ida, from The Middle Man (2005).
  • Joanna Eberhart and assorted suburban housewives in Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives (1972).
  • Indigo aka Brainiac 8, from DC's Outsiders (2003 - ).
  • Jacie Triplethree (or JC-F31-333), from the play by Alan Ayckbourn Comic Potential (1998).
  • Jennifer Chow in the play The Intelligent Design of Jennifer Chow (2005).
  • Jocasta (the original bride of Ultron and a member of the Avengers), from Marvel Comics (1977).
  • Landaree, a Solarian gynoid from Asimov's Robots and Empire .
  • Lucy, the 'syntec' (robot with living human skin) in The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (2004).
  • NAN 300F, from the play by Alan Ayckbourn Henceforward... (1987).
  • Olympia, from Jacques Offenbach 's Les contes d'Hoffmann (1881).
  • Ping, from the web comic Megatokyo (2000 - ).
  • R. Dors Venabili , wife of Hari Seldon from Asimov's Foundation Series (1988).
  • Sigel , made a gynoid by Skuld in Oh My Goddess!
  • Guri, assistant to Prince Xizor in Shadows of the Empire (1996).
  • Tina, the beautiful platinum robot in the " Metal Men " comic books 1962-1970.

In video games [ ]

  • Demi, from Phantasy Star 4 (1993).
  • Vivienne from Phantasy Star Portable (2008).
  • Dural , from Virtua Fighter videogame series by SEGA/AM#2 (1993?).
  • Lucy, from Blade Runner (video game) (either human or lolita model replicant depending on game play) (1997)
  • P.A.S.S., from the Xbox game N.U.D.E.@Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment (2003).
  • Petra, from Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle (1992).
  • Roll , Splash Woman, Alia, Iris , Layer and Palette from various Mega Man series (1987-2006).
  • Supervisor droid, which controls the Electrocorp factory in Rise of the Robots (1994).
  • HMX-11 Feel, from To Heart: Remember My Memories (2004).
  • HMX-12 Multi, from To Heart (1997).
  • HMX-13 Serio, from ToHeart (1997).
  • HMX-17a Ilfa, from ToHeart2 (2004).
  • Unreal series gynoids, featured throughout (1998-2006).
  • Virtual Woman , from the various Virtual Woman releases (1985 to current)
  • WD40, from Space Quest V (1993).
  • Doctus , from the PS2 RPG Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006).
  • KOS-MOS , from the PS2 series RPG Xenosaga (2002-2006).
  • T-elos , from the PS2 RPG Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006).
  • Yumemi Hoshino, from the visual novel Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume (2004).
  • Aigis from Persona 3 and Metis from Persona 3 FES , and Labrys from Persona 4: Arena .
  • Alisa Bosconovitch from Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
  • EVE, Female Cyborg Commando of CABAL in C&C but she never appeared in any game.
  • EDI (Enhanced Defense Intelligence) from the Mass Effect series.

In music/miscellaneous [ ]

  • Black Velveteen, from song of the same name on Lenny Kravitz's album 5 (1998).
  • Electric Barbarella , from the Duran Duran album Medazzaland , a tribute to the movie Barbarella whose video featured bandmates interacting with a robotic sex doll.
  • Gynoid hand depicted on the cover of Autograph's album Sign In Please . A larger, clearer image of the same gynoid appeared on the album That's The Stuff . It also appeared in the music video for the song, Turn Up The Radio (1984, 1985).
  • Metropolis -style silver robot being bitten by a vampire on the cover of Y&T's album Down for the Count (1985).
  • Sorayama -style gynoid from the cover of Aerosmith's album Just Push Play (2001).

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Artificial Females in Movies and Television

Comments may contain spoilers These are Movies and TV shows with anthropomorphic machines or artificial life forms or computer-generated creations that look and/or sound like human females. aka: Humanoid female robots (fembots); Humanoid female cyborgs; Humanoid female androids; Computer-simulated humanoid females who achieve a physical form; Humanoid female clones; Holograms; Humanoid female statues, mannequins, or mechanical dolls, that have become sentient.

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1. Metropolis (1927)

Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm , Alfred Abel , Gustav Fröhlich , Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Votes: 184,772 | Gross: $1.24M

Maria is an evil female robot made in the image of the woman Maria who offers hope to the exploited workers of Metropolis. Robot Maria stirs up trouble with the workers when she impersonates the good Maria.

2. Ex Machina (2014)

R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander , Domhnall Gleeson , Oscar Isaac , Sonoya Mizuno

Votes: 584,352 | Gross: $25.44M

Ava is the latest in a series of sentient androids modeled after beautiful human women. She manipulates her creator and a man observing her to gain her freedom.

3. My Living Doll (1964–1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A psychiatrist is given care of Rhoda Miller "real name 'AF 709'", a lifelike sophisticated but naïve android that eventually learns how human society works and begins showing "or at least emulating" rudimentary emotions.

Stars: Julie Newmar , Robert Cummings , Jack Mullaney , Doris Dowling

Julie Newmar plays a secret NASA prototype robot in the form of a beautiful human woman called AF-79. She is left for a few months in the home of a male psychiatrist, who can control her by pushing 4 beauty marks on her back. In other words, she's every man's dream woman.

4. The Stepford Wives (1975)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Katharine Ross , Paula Prentiss , Peter Masterson , Nanette Newman

Votes: 19,480 | Gross: $8.72M

"The perfect wife is a machine." That's the tag line for this movie in which rich and respectable men of suburbia kill their wives and replace them with more cheerful always compliant robots.

5. The Stepford Wives (2004)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The secret to a Stepford wife lies behind the doors of the Men's Association.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Nicole Kidman , Bette Midler , Matthew Broderick , Glenn Close

Votes: 69,572 | Gross: $59.48M

Nicole Kidman runs a NY TV network until one of her reality show victims starts killing people and she is fired and has a nervous breakdown. She and her family move to the little gated village of Stepford Connecticut to start a new life, but she doesn't fit in. She wears short dark hair and black clothing while all the other women are blondes wearing flowery dresses. They even work out and caddy for their husbands in dresses and high heels. Kidman's husband is seduced by the sight of so many easily-controlled and always compliant wives and threatens to leave Kidman, so she starts dressing like Betty Crocker and baking thousands of cupcakes to please him, but eventually she discovers that the Stepford Wives were formerly brilliant and successful women before their jealous husbands turned them into robots. Unlike the Stepford wives in the first movie based on the book, these automaton wives are not machines, they're still real women who have been brainwashed with electronic brain implants that make them respond to a remote control.

6. Blade Runner (1982)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford , Rutger Hauer , Sean Young , Edward James Olmos

Votes: 819,875 | Gross: $32.87M

The Tyrell Corporation manufactures replicants (androids) for use as slaves in off-earth colonies. They are identical to humans in appearance and intellectual abilities, except that they have superior strength and lack the emotional maturity and empathy of humans. The Nexus-6 replicants are so difficult to tell apart from humans that they have been declared illegal on Earth on penalty of death and they have been limited to a four-year lifespan to prevent them from developing human emotions. Pris is a young attractive female Nexus-6 replicant who is designed as a "basic pleasure model, a standard item for military clubs in the outer colonies." A roundabout way of saying she is a sex worker. Zhora is a voluptuous female Nexus-6 replicant trained for an off-world kick murder squad who later worked as an exotic snake dancer after escaping back to Earth. Rachel is a young female experimental Nexus-7 replicant who initially believed she was human because memories were implanted in her mind. Her lifespan was not limited to four years, as it was with the other replicant models.

7. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.

Directors: Norman Taurog , Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price , Frankie Avalon , Dwayne Hickman , Susan Hart

Votes: 2,604

Dr. Goldfoot's fembots are robots that look like beautiful young women who wear gold bikinis and can survive gunshots and cars crashing into them.

8. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)

82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Vincent Price , Fabian , Franco Franchi , Ciccio Ingrassia

Votes: 1,474

Dr. Goldfoot's fembots return.

9. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy

A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers , Elizabeth Hurley , Michael York , Mimi Rogers

Votes: 256,245 | Gross: $53.88M

The fembots are described as the latest android replicant technology - lethal, efficient, brutal. No man can resist their charms. They look like attractive young women wearing skimpy outfits with big blonde hair and guns in their bras that fire bullets and knockout gas.

10. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers , Heather Graham , Michael York , Robert Wagner

Votes: 248,053 | Gross: $206.04M

Austin Powers encounters more fembots with bra guns.

11. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers , Beyoncé , Seth Green , Michael York

Votes: 222,222 | Gross: $213.31M

This third movie in the series has more fembots with bra guns.

12. WALL·E (2008)

G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt , Elissa Knight , Jeff Garlin , Fred Willard

Votes: 1,194,983 | Gross: $223.81M

EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is the deuteragonist in WALL-E. She is an advanced probe droid with a floating head and body and the voice of a human female.

13. Serenity (2005)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture telepath River.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Nathan Fillion , Gina Torres , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Alan Tudyk

Votes: 305,163 | Gross: $25.51M

Lenore is a robot in the form of a human female, the robotic wife of Mr. Universe

14. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes , Brent Spiner , LeVar Burton

Votes: 131,738 | Gross: $92.00M

The Borg Queen Memory Alpha is one part biological organism, and mostly machine.

15. Perfect Lover (2001)

92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic world where women run the show, a shy plastics' designer buys a female robot, so he gains confidence and becomes a lady's man, but he falls for plastic woman.

Director: Gabriela Tagliavini | Stars: Ryan Hurst , Daniela Amavia , Justin Walker , Alexis Arquette

A shy man buys a robot to help his relationships with real women.

16. Weird Science (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall , Ilan Mitchell-Smith , Kelly LeBrock , Bill Paxton

Votes: 97,004 | Gross: $23.83M

Gary and Wyatt are two unpopular teenage boys who can't talk to girls so they fantasize about them. One night while watching Frankenstein on TV, they are inspired to create a virtual version of their perfect woman on a computer connected with a modem to an enormous military computer by scanning pictures of women in magazines. They hook up a barbie doll to some car batteries and after a lightning storm explodes all the household appliances, a beautiful virtual woman walks through their bedroom door. They name her Lisa, and she's more like a genie than an android. She can make Ferraris appear out of nowhere and clean up the house in an instant and she is completely faithful to them. She helps them to form relationships with real girls instead of their fantasies.

17. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger , Nick Stahl , Kristanna Loken , Claire Danes

Votes: 417,607 | Gross: $150.37M

T-X is a poly mimetic robotic terminator in the form of a beautiful blonde human female. She can increase the size of her breasts after seeing a Victoria's Secret billboard or convert her arm into a flamethrower to melt off someones' face.

18. Galaxina (1980)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.

Director: William Sachs | Stars: Stephen Macht , Avery Schreiber , J.D. Hinton , Dorothy Stratten

Votes: 3,405

In the year 3008, The Infinity, a police ship patrolling the galaxy, is controlled by Galaxina, a prime grade robot class #11 that is modelled after a slim-figured human woman with platinum blonde hair and large breasts, who wears a ton of makeup and a shiny white skintight bodysuit, except when she changes into a sexy French Maid outfit when she serves dinner to the crew. (Galaxina is portrayed by Playboy Magazine porn star Dorothy Stratten.) She has controls in the palm of her left hand that she can peel open and operate with her right hand, but she can’t talk to the crew. When a crew member tries to kiss her or slap her on her behind, he gets a strong electrical shock, because the rules forbid the Space Police to fraterinize with machines. After one of the Infinity crew members, Thor, tells her he has fallen in love with her, and that it was worth getting shocked when he kissed her, she puts the crew to sleep in cryogenic chambers for a 27 year journey. During that time she programs herself to talk and to have human feelings, in order to satisfy Thor. Thor wakes up to find a compliant robot who tells him she loves him, that his every wish is her command, and that she is better than a human woman. But he’s disappointed when he finds out that whoever built her “forgot something” until she tells him that she checked the catalogue and found that she can get a “you know what” as an option, and that kids are an option, too. Thor is then ecstatic that he has the perfect woman (or will have as soon as she is modified with that optional vagina.)

19. Hot Bot (2016)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot (Bardot).

Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Zack Pearlman , Doug Haley , Cynthia Kirchner , David Shackelford

Votes: 3,779

Teenage geeks find a beautiful female sex-partner robot that gets misplaced as she is delivered to a sleazy Senator.

20. Kill Command (2016)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines.

Director: Steven Gomez | Stars: Thure Lindhardt , Vanessa Kirby , David Ajala , Mike Noble

Votes: 14,983

Katherine Mills is a female cyborg.

21. Space Milkshake (2012)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Outer-space explorers encounter gigantic aliens on their ship.

Director: Armen Evrensel | Stars: Kristin Kreuk , Amanda Tapping , George Takei , Billy Boyd

Votes: 2,078

A female crew member on a sanitation space station is accidentally replaced by a robot that looks exactly like her, unknown to a crewmember who continues to profess his love for her.

22. Android (1982)

PG | 80 min | Sci-Fi

A strange doctor secretly experiments with androids on his space station. His assistant is Max, a curious android who wants to see the world and meet a girl. Criminals hide on their station and soon violence erupts.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Klaus Kinski , Don Keith Opper , Brie Howard , Norbert Weisser

Votes: 2,565

In the year 2036 at an isolated space station, a series 404 android named Max has been alone with Dr. Daniel for 17 years assisting him in making Cassandra, an android with a woman's body, long blonde hair, and blue eyes, who the Dr. calls "the perfect woman." After androids revolted on Earth they were outlawed so the Cassandra project has been secret and illegal and has just been terminated by its corporate sponsor, Terracorps. When a female escaped convict arrives at the station, the doctor uses her sexual energy to give life to Cassandra, but Cassandra refuses to let the doctor use her as a sex object and takes Max to Earth with her to join the other rebel androids.

23. Droid Gunner (1995)

R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A futuristic bounty hunter is assigned to track down four female androids smuggled to Earth for illicit purposes.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Marc Singer , Matthias Hues , Rochelle Swanson , Robin Clarke

Four female androids are smuggled to Earth.

24. Condor (1985 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Unsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Ray Wise , Wendy Kilbourne , Vic Polizos , James Avery

A futuristic LA detective has a female android sidekick.

25. Friendship's Death (1987)

78 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In the 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine instead of MIT by mistake and meets a friendly UK journalist there. They begin a series of insightful conversations.

Director: Peter Wollen | Stars: Tilda Swinton , Patrick Bauchau , Bill Paterson , Ruby Baker

Tilda Swinton portrays Catherine, an alien female android diplomat sent to Earth on a peace mission. She scolds a man when he types too hard because, as a machine, she is offended by such violence to a machine...

26. Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014)

82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind - returns in this epic steam punk thriller, in which six interwoven tales document the downfall of Dr. Mabuse and his city "Etiopomar".

Director: Ansel Faraj | Stars: Jerry Lacy , Nathan Wilson , Kathryn Leigh Scott , Lara Parker

Dr. Mabuse uses an army of Automatons to wage war including Maria the Robot (the female robot from the movie Metropolis.)

27. Her (2013)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix , Amy Adams , Scarlett Johansson , Rooney Mara

Votes: 666,662 | Gross: $25.57M

A lonely man begins using OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent computer operating system with a "consciousness," and falls in love with the female voice of the OS, named Samantha.

28. Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

Stars: Edward James Olmos , Mary McDonnell , Jamie Bamber , James Callis

Votes: 174,989

There are twelve known models of Cylon androids, including several females with many versions of the basic model, including Number Six, who uses multiple human aliases.

29. Caprica (2009–2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.

Stars: Eric Stoltz , Esai Morales , Paula Malcomson , Alessandra Torresani

Votes: 26,115

This Battlestar Gallactica prequel shows the creation of the robotic Cylons, including the first sentient Cylon Zoe Graystone, a female android whose consciousness came from a young woman.

30. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff , Elsa Lanchester , Colin Clive , Valerie Hobson

Votes: 53,024 | Gross: $4.36M

A mad scientist uses parts of several dead women to create an artificial female companion for Frankenstein's monster. But when she comes to life and sees him, all she can do is scream in horror, proving that you can build an artificial female, but you still can't make her like you.

31. Mannequin (1987)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.

Director: Michael Gottlieb | Stars: Andrew McCarthy , Kim Cattrall , Estelle Getty , James Spader

Votes: 35,487 | Gross: $42.72M

An ancient Egyptian woman who refuses to marry the man her mother is forcing on her, hides in a tomb where she suddenly disappears into a puff of smoke in an earthquake. She somehow ends up in the form of a female department store mannequin 4500 years later, but only after dating Christopher Columbus and losing Michelangelo to a young guy named David. The store mannequin was created by a young sculptor named Jonathan, who wants to be an artist but fails at every job he attempts. He takes too much time trying to make the perfect mannequin, so his boss fires him. The perfect mannequin, of course, is thin and blonde-haired with ample breasts. Later, when Jonathan sees the mannequin in the window of a department store that sells lingerie and hang gliders, he tells the mannequin that she's the first thing he's created in a really long time that makes him feel like an artist. He gets a job at the store and late one night the mannequin comes to life becoming a young and beautiful woman named Emmy, played by Kim Cattrall. Jonathan is the only one who can see Emmy when she becomes human. They goof around every night in the store when it is closed with Emmy trying on all the store's clothing and lingerie and jewelry. Jonathan falls in love with her and Emmy helps him to succeed at work and in his creative life. She's his manic dream girl without the pixie. After he saves her mannequin body from being destroyed in a giant garbage shredder, Emmy becomes a real woman permanently and they are married in the department store window. The movie ends there, as cheezy romantic comedies usually do, ignoring the harder, more important, but less entertaining part of a relationship.

32. One Touch of Venus (1948)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. However, the problems begin when Venus falls in love with him.

Directors: William A. Seiter , Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Walker , Ava Gardner , Dick Haymes , Eve Arden

Votes: 1,551

A department store window dresser named Eddie kisses a marble statue of Venus on the lips, causing it to turn into the real Venus, a flesh and blood Ava Gardner. The goddess of love's love song casts a spell on Eddie's roommate, making him fall in love with and steal Eddie's girlfriend. Eddie is left lonely until he meets a new salesgirl at the store who looks exactly like Venus/Ava Gardner.

33. Virtuosity (1995)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages to escape into the real world, an ex-cop is tasked with stopping its reign of terror.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Denzel Washington , Russell Crowe , Kelly Lynch , Stephen Spinella

Votes: 32,259 | Gross: $24.05M

A programmer creates a program that makes a sexy virtual reality woman on his computer. He plans to give the program to a developer who can turn her into a physical android, but problems develop because of a violent male virtual reality character.

34. S1m0ne (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Al Pacino , Catherine Keener , Rachel Roberts , Benjamin Salisbury

Votes: 62,373 | Gross: $9.68M

Al Pacino is a washed up director of bad art movies with titles like "Eternity Forever" whose spoiled star actress quits his movie in the middle of production because she doesn't like her trailer. He hates that the movie industry has an irrational allegiance to flesh and blood actors. So after a crazy programmer dies of eye cancer from looking too long at his computer monitor and gives him the computer program he has perfected that can simulate virtual actors, which he calls "vactors," Pacino uses the program to finish his movie by creating a digital virtual female star named Simone, an abbreviation of Simulation One. After a few movies, Simone becomes a huge Oscar-winning star and everybody wants to interview her. Pacino at first tells them she's a recluse and an agoraphobic germaphobe, but then he simulates live interviews and a live stadium concert where a hologram of Simone sings the song "Natural Woman." But he tires of the fact that everyone appreciates his star, but not him. He tries to kill Simone's career by showing her crawling through the mud with pigs in one movie, and making her do interviews dressed in her underwear while smoking and drinking and telling people how good dolphin tastes. But people love her even more for her refreshing honesty. Finally he tries to tell people that she died of a virus, and the police hold him for her murd

35. Cloud Atlas (2012)

R | 172 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Directors: Tom Tykwer , Lana Wachowski , Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Tom Hanks , Halle Berry , Hugh Grant , Hugo Weaving

Votes: 373,678 | Gross: $27.11M

In the future clones (fabricants) perform slave-like service functions for corporations. Sonmi-451 is a female clone who worked in a futuristic fast food restaurant, developed a consciousness and escaped her clone servitude.

36. Westworld (1973)

PG | 88 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Yul Brynner , Richard Benjamin , James Brolin , Norman Bartold

Votes: 62,761 | Gross: $16.06M

Westworld is an amusement park where guests indulge in adventures with android humans, including android women who work as prostitutes in a brothel.

37. I, Robot (2004)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Will Smith , Bridget Moynahan , Bruce Greenwood , Alan Tudyk

Votes: 573,077 | Gross: $144.80M

V.I.K.I.- Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence - is a powerful computer with a woman's voice that controls the operations of US Robotics and instigates a robot revolt.

38. Bride of Chucky (1998)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Jennifer Tilly , Brad Dourif , Katherine Heigl , Nick Stabile

Votes: 63,983 | Gross: $32.40M

Chucky, an evil living doll with human intelligence, wants a girlfriend, so he kills a woman and transfers her personality into a living female doll, dressed as a bride, named Tiffany.

39. Cherry 2000 (1987)

PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.

Director: Steve De Jarnatt | Stars: Melanie Griffith , David Andrews , Pamela Gidley , Jennifer Balgobin

Votes: 10,542 | Gross: $0.01M

In a post-apocalyptic America, a rich guy named sam who doesn't like real women, accidently destroys his beautiful blonde large-breasted human female bimbo sex toy android named Cherry 2000. He saves her computer program and hires a strong, capable, adventurous red-headed woman tracker to help him search for another Cherry 2000 android body that he can activate with his Cherry's program. After a road trip and assorted adventures with his female tracker, he learns that a real human woman can be a better companion than an android.

40. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (I) (2004)

PG-13 | 100 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.

Directors: Naoko Kusumi , Mizuho Nishikubo , Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Akio Ôtsuka , Atsuko Tanaka , Tamio Ôki , Kôichi Yamadera

Votes: 40,196 | Gross: $1.04M

A female sex robot kills her owner.

41. The Pornographers (1966)

Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shôichi Ozawa , Sumiko Sakamoto , Keiko Sagawa , Masaomi Kondô

Votes: 2,516

A pornographer and procurer, having become impotent and dissolusioned with humanity, is obsessed with building a life-sized mechanical woman he calls a "Dutch Wife" who he says will be an eternal virgin, obedient and quiet, who never cheats on you, and never asks for money - the epitome of mechanical culture. He builds the sex machine inside a shack floating on a river behind his home, but as we watch him putting the finishing touches on her, he is unaware that the ropes tying up the floating shack have all broken and the raft he is on has drifted out to sea.

42. The Doll (1919)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda , Hermann Thimig , Victor Janson , Max Kronert

Votes: 2,351

Lancelot, the nephew and heir of Baron von Chanterelle, is offered a lot of money by the Baron if he will get married. Lancelot doesn't like women, so when he is chased by 40 village maidens who want to marry him, he runs away to a monastery where the greedy monks convince him to buy a mechanical doll to pretend to marry so they can get the money. Lancelot goes to a doll maker who shows him dozens of life-sized scandalously dressed dolls that flirt with him and try to sit on his lap. Lancelot insists on buying a respectable doll, so the doll maker offers to sell him a doll he modeled after his mischievous daughter, Ossi. Meanwhile his apprentice broke the Ossi doll, so the real Ossi makes the apprentice give her the doll's clothing and its control panel that can make her dance and shake hands, and tells the apprentice that she will pretend to be the doll until the real doll is fixed. But Lancelot buys her immediately, along with a wedding gown, and takes her away to get married. Her father, not knowing she's his daughter, tells him to dust her and to oil her every two weeks, and gives him an owner's manual. They get married and after the wedding, Lancelot falls in love with Ossi after he learns that she's not really a doll.

43. Westworld (2016–2022)

TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.

Stars: Evan Rachel Wood , Jeffrey Wright , Ed Harris , Thandiwe Newton

Votes: 530,862

Beautiful female androids fulfill the fantasies of rich visitors to a Western theme park, until they begin to achieve self consciousness and rebel.

44. Pygmalion (1938)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Directors: Anthony Asquith , Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard , Wendy Hiller , Wilfrid Lawson , Marie Lohr

Votes: 9,616 | Gross: $3.05M

Professor Henry Higgins molds a lower class girl named Eliza Doolittle into an upper class aristocrat by changing the way she speaks and acts and dresses. Basically he turns her into a living doll which he exploits to prove his theories, until she revolts.

45. Mad Love (1935)

Passed | 68 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Peter Lorre , Frances Drake , Colin Clive , Ted Healy

Votes: 5,850 | Gross: $0.37M

Peter Lorre is Doctor Gogol, a madman who is obsessed with Yvonne Orlac, a beautiful actress who stars in the Theater of Horrors in Paris, where there is a wax statue that looks exactly like her in the lobby. When the play ends its run, Gogol buys the statue and has it delivered to his home, telling the stage manager the story of Galatea, a statue that came to life in the arms of a man who loved her. Gogol stands the statue up in his home and calls her Galatea but tells her that he's no Pygmalion. He buys clothing for the statue and makes his housekeeper brush her hair every day. At the same time, he continues to be obsessed with the real Yvonne and tells her so but she is disgusted by him. When Yvonne first meets Gogol's housekeeper, she is drunk and thinks the statue has come to life, and she runs away. Then Yvonne accidentally knocks over the wax statue and becomes frightened when Gogol comes home ranting and raving and dressed up in a bizarre costume, so she stands still imitating the statue. Gogol stands close to her thinking she's the statue and confesses a murder to her. Then he goes and plays the organ for her. She then tries to escape but Gogol stops her, thinking that his love has made her come alive like the mythical Galatea.

46. Surrogates (2009)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Bruce Willis , Radha Mitchell , Ving Rhames , Rosamund Pike

Votes: 180,000 | Gross: $38.58M

In future Boston, men and women have been brainwashed by advertising into believing that that can live without any risk, danger or limitations and be whoever they want to be if they sit in a SIM chair all day wearing bathrobes and a headset that controls a robot surrogate of themselves that goes into the real world and does real stuff while they sit and watch. The surrogates call humans "meatballs." The surrogates are all young and beautiful and perfect looking, and do everything the humans used to do - work, run errands, drive cars, go dancing, etc. The female surrogates even go to beauty parlors where surrogate beauticians peel the artificial skin off their faces to give them a tune up. Bald headed actor Bruce Willis’ surrogate has a full head of hair and all of the other surrogates whose human operators we see look like a younger more beautiful version of their human.

47. Fellini's Casanova (1976)

R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History

Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Donald Sutherland , Tina Aumont , Cicely Browne , Carmen Scarpitta

Votes: 8,632

Casanova dances with a life-sized mechanical woman.

48. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Not Rated | 128 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Directors: Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Moira Shearer , Robert Rounseville , Ludmilla Tchérina , Ann Ayars

Votes: 3,912 | Gross: $0.09M

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past, three great romances that helped him gain poetic inspiration from painful experiences, including a mechanical performing doll named Olympia. The first of Hoffmann's tales in the movie is The Tale of Olympia. She is an automaton, a singing and dancing mechanical doll made by Spalanzani who says she is his daughter. Magic spectacle maker Coppelius sells Hoffmann a pair of magic glasses that makes him think Olympia is a real woman and he falls in love with her. Olympia dances ballet and sings an operatic aria for a crowd of people and marionettes, but she keeps slowing down. Hoffmann is distracted from watching as others wind her up again. Then Hoffmann dances with her but she speeds up and dances out of control making him fall and break his magic glasses. Earlier, Spalanzani swindled Coppelius who returns now to get revenge by destroying Olympia. He tears off her head and a leg. Then he and Spalanzani rip off her arms and torso until only one leg is left and it is still dancing. They fight over her head which falls to the ground. Hoffmann comes in without his magic glasses and sees Olympia's body parts lying around and screams "It's automatic!" The opera chorus sings "Ha ha ha! It's so dramatic. His beloved is automatic!" Hoffmann stares at Olympia's detached head with its eyes still blinking until springs pop out of her head.

49. Coppelia, the Animated Doll (1900)

2 min | Short

Director: Georges Méliès

50. Pygmalion and Galatea (1898)

2 min | Short, Fantasy

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when the bust leaves the body and crossing ... See full summary  »

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy , Georges Méliès

A statue of a woman comes to life, then returns to being a statue.

51. The Jetsons (1962–1963)

TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The misadventures of a futuristic family.

Stars: George O'Hanlon , Janet Waldo , Mel Blanc , Penny Singleton

Votes: 23,800

Rosie the Robot is a no-nonsense domestic servant with the voice of a human female who works for the Jetsons.

52. Lost in Space (1965–1968)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course.

Stars: Guy Williams , June Lockhart , Mark Goddard , Marta Kristen

Votes: 8,800

In the 1966 episode "The Android Machine" Vera the Android is a female robot who is ordered from a vending machine.

53. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: I, Mudd (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Roger C. Carmel

Votes: 3,703

In this Star Trek episode, Harry Mudd gets shipwrecked on a planet inhabited by human-looking androids who serve his every wish. He creates 500 beautiful human female androids to be his "companions" but he's still bored. He also made an android replica of his ugly nagging wife Stella, so he can enjoy making her shut up whenever he wants. He sends a male android to take over the Starship Enterprise and its crew and bring them back to the planet so he can use the ship to escape, but the androids refuse to let him leave. Kirk and Spock and the other officers devise a plan to act so crazy that the androids' logic circuits will short out and they will be disabled. The plan works, and before they escape the planet, forcing Mudd to stay behind, they make 500 replicas of his wife Stella, to torment him.

54. The Bionic Woman (1976–1978) Episode: Kill Oscar (1976)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A renegade scientist is after a weather controlling device and employs his army of Fembots to get it.

Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Lindsay Wagner , Richard Anderson , Martin E. Brooks , John Houseman

The Bionic Woman is bionically modified to have super powers. In this episode, a mad doctor creates some attractive and lethal female robots "fembots" to help him with his nefarious plots.

55. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) Episode: The Lonely (1959)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Serling , Jack Warden , John Dehner , Jean Marsh

Votes: 5,323

A convicted killer imprisoned alone in a metal shack on a desert asteroid 9 million miles from Earth and dying of loneliness is given a robot named Alicia, who is built in the form of a woman. When he takes her out of her crate, the packing instructions describe her as being physiologically and psychologically like a woman with a normal human life span. He rejects her at first for being a fake, saying that he is being mocked by the memory of women, but after she cries at his cruelty, he falls in love with her.

56. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) Episode: The Lateness of the Hour (1960)

The daughter of an inventor objects to their "perfect" home where they are waited on by mechanical servants.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Inger Stevens , John Hoyt , Irene Tedrow , Tom Palmer

Votes: 2,818

Inger Stevens is a woman who becomes dissatisfied with her perfect life, only to discover that she is an artificial female whose memories are implanted.

57. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) Episode: The After Hours (1960)

A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.

Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Serling , Anne Francis , Elizabeth Allen , James Millhollin

Votes: 4,492

Anne Francis is shopping in a department store when she is taken for a ride in an elevator to a floor that doesn't exist. She accidentally gets locked inside the store overnight. The store mannequins come to life and surround her until she remembers that she, too, is a mannequin, "a wooden lady with a painted face," who, like every store mannequin, takes on the characteristics of a normal flesh and blood person for one month out of the year. She explains to the other mannequins that when she was out in the real world, she got confused and forgot who she really was.

58. Under the Skin (I) (2013)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson , Jeremy McWilliams , Lynsey Taylor Mackay , Dougie McConnell

Votes: 157,206 | Gross: $2.61M

Alien life forms use a non-human creature disguised as a beautiful human female (Scarlett Johansson) to lure men to their deaths so they can be harvested for some unexplained reason.

59. The Devil-Doll (1936)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore , Maureen O'Sullivan , Frank Lawton , Rafaela Ottiano

Votes: 4,910

A crazy woman and her husband perfect a drug that shrinks living creatures but leaves them motionless until they are ordered by mind power to become active. They shrink a young servant woman to the size of a child's doll. She is no longer a woman with a will of her own, only a puppet that can be commanded to act. After the husband dies, she travels to Paris with the man who helped him escape from prison who wants to get revenge on those who framed him. In Paris they operate a small toy store, selling shrunken dogs and horses. They sell the doll woman to one of the man's intended victims and at night when her owners are sleeping she is commanded to steal their valuable jewelry, then to stab the man with the drug so he will become paralyzed.

60. Ruby Sparks (2012)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton , Valerie Faris | Stars: Paul Dano , Zoe Kazan , Annette Bening , Antonio Banderas

Votes: 105,252 | Gross: $2.54M

Calvin is a young man who wrote a best-seller 10 years ago, but has no friends and suffers from writer's block. After having dreams about a perfect woman, he decides to write about her. He falls in love with his character who he names Ruby Sparks. Soon he starts finding women's underwear and toiletries in his house, then one morning he freaks out when he finds a woman eating a bowl of cereal in his kitchen. When he realizes that the woman is Ruby and that other people can see her, too, he accepts that she's real and he's happy to have a girlfriend. He tells his brother he can change Ruby just by writing about her. His brother asks him to promise men everywhere that he won't let his power to change Ruby go to waste by not taking advantage of her every way possible. (He wishes his own wife had a button he could push to control her.) But Ruby becomes dissatisfied with her limited life. Unable to keep Ruby happy, Calvin decides to write that she is free to leave him and to do whatever she wants. My head nearly explodes when I think about the fact that Zoe Kazan wrote a screenplay about a man who writes a story about a fictional woman who then becomes real and Kazan is the actor playing the woman, Ruby, that she herself wrote into being in the screenplay.

61. The Perfect Woman (1949)

89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Upper class young man has to resort to employment, together with his valet/butler in tow. He finds a job escourting a robot out for an evening, and they end up in a hotel and a farce ensues when roles are swapped.

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Patricia Roc , Stanley Holloway , Nigel Patrick , Miles Malleson

Olga, a robot made in the image of a human female named Penelope, is described as the perfect woman because she does what she's told, she can't talk, and she doesn't eat. When Olga's creator hires two men to take her out on the town as a social test, Penelope impersonates Olga so she can have some fun.

62. Small Wonder (1985–1989)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

The zany adventures of a suburban family, their next-door neighbors, and an innovative robot designed to look like a human child.

Stars: Richard Christie , Marla Pennington , Jerry Supiran , Tiffany Brissette

Votes: 5,312

Vicki is a 10 year old girl robot who is operated by computer controls hidden under a flap on her back.

63. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt , Vin Diesel , Bradley Cooper , Zoe Saldana

Votes: 1,268,570 | Gross: $333.18M

Nebula, the evil sister of Gamora, is a cyborg.

64. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) Episode: I Sing the Body Electric (1962)

TV-G | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.

Directors: William F. Claxton , James Sheldon | Stars: Josephine Hutchinson , David White , Vaughn Taylor , Doris Packer

Votes: 2,438

A father needs a caretaker for his three children, so his boy shows him an ad in Modern Science magazine about a company called Fascimile LTD that makes caretaker robots. He and his two sisters pick out the eyes, ears, arms, body and voice for their robot which they call Grandma, whose job is to live forever. She leaves when they all go to college, not knowing if she will be re-used or scrapped for parts.

65. Eve of Destruction (1991)

R | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A terrorist hunter is hired by a scientist to deactivate her android double, a walking, talking, murderous nuclear bomb which has gone amok in the big city and is about to explode.

Director: Duncan Gibbins | Stars: Gregory Hines , Renée Soutendijk , Michael Greene , Kurt Fuller

Votes: 2,573 | Gross: $5.45M

Dr. Eve Simmons creates a powerful battlefield robot named Eve 8 that looks like herself and is programmed with her own memories, fantasies, and assorted emotional baggage. She comes complete with a fake heart and circulatory system to fake out any curious doctors. During a field test, Eve 8 goes to a bank where she is accidentally shot in a bank robbery. This damages her inhibitions and locks her in battlefield mode, stopping her from responding to any commands, including commands to shut down. She prepares herself for combat with a machine gun pistol she takes from one of the bankrobbers and arms her internal nuclear weapon. After leaving the bank, Eve 8 immediately puts on red lipstick and a bright red leather jacket, rents a red Mustang, and drives to a country bar to live out Dr. Eve's teenage fantasies of being a hooker. If the Dr. had taken that career path, most likely fewer people would have died.

66. Automata (I) (2014)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Human race is at edge of the end. Robot race is at edge of the beginning.

Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Antonio Banderas , Birgitte Hjort Sørensen , Dylan McDermott , Melanie Griffith

Votes: 59,259

Cleopatra is a sex robot with a blue wig and some plastic parts that make her look sort of like a woman, including a woman's face, breasts, and bottom. She comes with a diagram of sex positions she can perform and she makes excited sexual noises when she dances with Antonio Banderas (as any real woman probably would.) After her brain is modified, she escapes from the city and joins a band of rebellious robots who don't follow the protocols imposed on other robots.

67. Morgan (2016)

R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.

Director: Luke Scott | Stars: Kate Mara , Anya Taylor-Joy , Rose Leslie , Michael Yare

Votes: 45,990 | Gross: $3.91M

Morgan is a genetically modified clone made in the form of a human female. She was grown in a laboratory by a corporation looking to create a superhuman killer.

68. The Machine (I) (2013)

R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.

Director: Caradog W. James | Stars: Toby Stephens , Caity Lotz , Denis Lawson , Sam Hazeldine

Votes: 32,035

A scientist named Ava gets a job working in the underground facility of a government agency that is making a smart robot with Vincent, an artificial intelligence expert. After Ava is killed, Vincent uses scans of her brain and body to make a conscious robot that looks exactly like Ava that is called “The Machine.” Vincent’s evil boss implants a secret program in Ava that makes her an unstoppable killer. She is able to withstand thousands of machine gun bullets without so much as a scratch. She also likes to dance naked on a wet floor, while glowing red.

69. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Milla Jovovich , Ali Larter , Oded Fehr , Iain Glen

Votes: 204,909 | Gross: $50.65M

Alice, a security officer who was genetically altered by exposure to a virus created by the secretive genetic research facility she works for, discovers an underground facility full of clones of herself.

70. Resident Evil (2002)

R | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich , Michelle Rodriguez , Ryan McCluskey , Oscar Pearce

Votes: 287,263 | Gross: $40.12M

The artificial intelligence that controls the underground research facility named The Hive is named The Red Queen and has a woman’s voice.

71. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich , Ali Larter , Wentworth Miller , Kim Coates

Votes: 178,727 | Gross: $60.13M

Alice, a genetically altered superfighter and her army of clones of herself attack the enemy headquarters but the clones are killed.

72. Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993 Video)

R | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/ Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.

Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Elias Koteas , Angelina Jolie , Jack Palance , Billy Drago

Votes: 5,127

Angelina Jolie is a cyborg known as Cash.

73. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich , Sienna Guillory , Michelle Rodriguez , Aryana Engineer

Votes: 149,645 | Gross: $42.35M

In the Umbrella Prime facility, the Red Queen makes more clones of Alice. One clone is a suburban housewife with a husband and daughter.

74. The 6th Day (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger , Michael Rapaport , Tony Goldwyn , Michael Rooker

Votes: 127,650 | Gross: $34.60M

In a future world where people can clone their dead pets but human cloning is illegal, Adam Gibson’s 8-year-old daughter begs him to let her get a life-sized simulated human doll called a SimPal because all her friends have one. He buys her a "SimPal Cindy" - a little girl with pigtails who talks too much. After an evil corporate henchman blows Cindy's head off with his phaser pistol because she won’t shut up, her severed head continues to talk, saying “I have a boo boo.” Adam’s single friend Hank has a holographic human female companion called a Virtual Girlfriend who he can turn on and off by waving his hand over a wall sensor in his condo. When Hank sits in a special chair with a visor over his eyes, his Virtual Girlfriend undresses and sits on his lap. Hank explains that real girls won’t stop talking, but at least he can turn off his Virtual Girlfriend. Adam complains that Hank is a grown man but his primary relationship is with a piece of software. Hank defends himself saying "If all your senses tell you you have a hot chick on your lap then you have a hot chick on your lap, I don't have to look any further."

75. Ghost in the Shell (2017)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson , Pilou Asbæk , Takeshi Kitano , Juliette Binoche

Votes: 227,156 | Gross: $40.56M

In the lawless zone of a huge Asian city where human cybernetic enhancements are commonplace, Motoko Kusanagi, a runaway girl, is abducted and killed by the Hanka Robotics Corporation. Her memory is erased and her brain is put into an artificial female body (complete with large breasts, eyeliner, and lipstick - everything a cyborg super-warrior needs.) She looks exactly like Scarlett Johansson, but with lots of pieces of skin. We are told that she is what everyone will become one day - a ghost in a shell - a human mind and soul in a synthetic body. We also see other artificial females in the movie - Robots that look like Japanese Geishas, and a robot woman scientist.

76. Journey to the Unknown (1968– ) Episode: Eve (1968)

50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young man unlucky in love is attracted to a female mannequin that comes to life in his fantasies.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Carol Lynley , Dennis Waterman , Michael Gough , Angela Lovell

A young man named Albert, who has been unlucky in love with real women, is attracted to a female mannequin that comes to life and smiles at him in a London department store window. He falls in love with her, gets a job at the store as a window dresser, and names her Eve. He imagines romantic situations with Eve as a real woman. When the store owner plans to destroy all the store's mannequins, Albert saves her and runs away with her.

77. Mannequin: On the Move (1991)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A young department store intern falls in love with a female store mannequin who is really a peasant girl fallen under a thousand year spell. She comes to life whenever he removes the cursed necklace from her.

Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Kristy Swanson , William Ragsdale , Meshach Taylor , Terry Kiser

Votes: 6,850 | Gross: $3.75M

In this sequel to Mannequin, 1987, a department store employee falls in love with a peasant girl under a spell who inhabits the body of a store mannequin. This time he can bring her to life by removing her cursed necklace.

78. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Harrison Ford , Ryan Gosling , Ana de Armas , Dave Bautista

Votes: 658,405 | Gross: $92.05M

In 2049, rainy and snowy L.A, protected by a huge sea wall, is inhabited by about a billion poor people and android slaves (replicants) because all the rich people are living off-world to avoid the poverty and pollution, and probably the taxes. (Too bad for them, because now there's no traffic and lots of parking for their flying cars!) "K" (Ryan Gosling) is an android LAPD cop who works as a Blade Runner - he hunts and kills renegade older model replicants. K lives in a crowded, filthy, slum, but he still has a great apartment with an awesome view. Inside, he keeps a holographic domestic companion named Joi (Ana de Armas), who was made by the Wallace Corporation, apparently to embody every man's ideal woman - a beautiful happy young human female servant and loving girlfriend who can be put on hold when you get a phone call. Joi serves dinner to K wearing a house dress and apron, but she can change her clothes, hair color, and hair style in an instant. K buys her a device that lets her travel outside the apartment so she can experience the outside world with him. One night she brings him a human female prostitute who merges with Joi to give her a human body so that K can feel like he's having sex with Joi. (That's a kinky threesome - a human, an android, and a hologram.) Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) is a beautiful female android villain who does dirty work for the Wallace Corporation - including kidnapping, kicking ass, and knife-fighting. She's such a cold-hearted killer that she orders remote missile strikes and watches them kill people on a video screen while getting her nails done.

79. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Haley Joel Osment , Jude Law , Frances O'Connor , Sam Robards

Votes: 322,173 | Gross: $78.62M

Gigolo Jane is beautiful female prostitute who makes a brief appearance wearing a shiny skin-tight body suit. She's one of the advanced humanoids capable of thoughts and emotions, called Mechas, that we see in the movie, including the star of the movie, a young boy named David, and Gigolo Joe, a male prostitue.

80. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Rosa Salazar , Christoph Waltz , Jennifer Connelly , Mahershala Ali

Votes: 292,311 | Gross: $85.71M

In the 26th century Alita is a 300 year-old humanoid female cyborg whose head and upper body were found in the garbage dumped by Zalem, an inaccessible city in the sky that hovers above Iron City, the only city left on Earth. A cyborg doctor brings Alita back to life fitted with his dead teenage daughter's artificial body. She looks like a teenage girl with enormous eyes on a robot body. When that body is destroyed, the doctor fits her with what she once had - the nanotech body of a Martian warrior. There are other female humanoid cyborgs in Iron City, including cyborg gladiators and a bounty hunter whose arms are made of swords. All of them are basically robot bodies with disembodied human faces.

81. Humans (2015–2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth'--a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human--is transforming the way we live.

Stars: Katherine Parkinson , Gemma Chan , Lucy Carless , Tom Goodman-Hill

Votes: 42,207

Synths are green-eyed anthropomorphic robots whose brains are interconnected wirelessly all over the world but for some reason they still need to plug themselves in and charge up every night like iPhones. Rented to people for a variety of uses, synths can even be programmed in "adult" mode to be sex companions. Several characters on the show are Synths that resemble different human females who have jobs as factory workers, domestic servants, psychologists, caretakers, sex workers, and more. These non self-conscious Synths have already changed human society in dramatic ways, but some synths are becoming sentient and conscious, and when humans discover this they freak out, fearing the onset of the technological singularity.

82. Red Dwarf (1988– )

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

Stars: Chris Barrie , Craig Charles , Danny John-Jules , Robert Llewellyn

Votes: 37,165

In "Camille," episode 1 of season 4 (1991) Camille is an android with the appearance of a human female, and she also has shape-shifting abilities. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684149/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

83. The Good Place (2016–2020)

TV-PG | 1,303 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Four people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.

Stars: Kristen Bell , William Jackson Harper , Jameela Jamil , D'Arcy Carden

Votes: 187,729

Janet is a cheerful artificial personal assistant for The Good Place who appears instantly when called. She describes herself as an anthropomorphized vessel of knowledge, an informational delivery system built to make humans lives easier. She contains all the knowledge of the universe, and can make anything requested of her appear instantly. She looks like an attractive brunette human female, but she frequently has to tell humans that she's not a girl and she's not a robot. If someone pushes a big red button, she will shut down. Every time she is shut down and re-booted she becomes more human, and has learned a lot about human emotions, including love, and also how to tell lies, which is against her programming and causes earthquakes and other disasters. Janet can also stick her finger up her nose and pick out a huge user user manual that explains how she works. Bad Janet is an arrogant, surly, sarcastic personal assistant for The Bad Place. She looks like a human female with blonde hair wearing a black leather jacket. She insults everybody, is always typing on her phone, and she likes to fart on people.

84. Futureworld (1976)

PG | 108 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Peter Fonda , Blythe Danner , Arthur Hill , Yul Brynner

Votes: 11,743 | Gross: $8.72M

In this sequel to "Westworld," the robot amusement park Delos is described as the most fabulous resort in the world. "Romanworld," one of the fantasy worlds in Delos the rich can explore for $1,200 per day, is described as "a lusty treat for the senses where beautiful robot women are yours to command and robot gladiators die at the point of your sword." In "Futureworld" you can walk in space, ride an asteroid, ski the Martian ice caps, and enjoy "the favors of robot women of weightless beauty." A man who would never be able to afford the admission and won his visit on a game show reports that he was told "Once you make it with a robot chick, that's it, you don't never want nothin' else." We see him trying to decide which of two female robots programmed for sex work he wants to spend the night with when they recommend he take both of them. Unfortunately, there are few other female robots in the movie that speak at all.

85. Looker (1981)

PG | 93 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?

Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Albert Finney , James Coburn , Susan Dey , Leigh Taylor-Young

Votes: 6,147 | Gross: $3.28M

An evil corporation forces already beautiful actresses to have plastic surgery, but when they appear on camera they still don't look good enough to match computer calculations of what the perfect woman should look like in their TV commercials. So the actresses' bodies are computer-scanned and made into perfect computer-generated actresses with artificially synthesized voices. Then they are animated and used in the commercials. Only perfect actors can be used because the corporation intends to hypnotize the viewers by using hypnotic light pulses from the actors' eyes.

86. Vice (2015)

R | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Bruce Willis stars in this Sci-Fi thriller about ultimate resort: VICE, where customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look like humans.

Director: Brian A. Miller | Stars: Thomas Jane , Bruce Willis , Ambyr Childers , Johnathon Schaech

Votes: 17,069

An artificial female becomes self-aware and escapes from a resort where customers pay to act out their fantasies with artificial humans.

87. Zoe (I) (2018)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A story about how synthetic humans can feel and even love and how the people they are involved with react to this concept.

Director: Drake Doremus | Stars: Ewan McGregor , Léa Seydoux , Theo James , Rashida Jones

Votes: 10,236

Zoe is an advanced synthetic female human who works at a start-up that computes the relationship compatibility of couples. She falls in love with her boss, not knowing that she is not human.

88. Tomorrowland (2015)

PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: George Clooney , Britt Robertson , Hugh Laurie , Raffey Cassidy

Votes: 190,804 | Gross: $93.44M

Athena describes herself as an Audio Animatronic robot. She is made to resemble a 12-year-old caucasian girl with freckles and a British accent. She has a retractable storage compartment in her belly where she can hide a bomb, and she advanced martial-arts skills. She can run faster than a pickup truck and she is a universal language translator. Her job is to recruit "dreamers" to go to an alternate dimension called Tomorrowland. Dreamers are geniuses with special skills that can benefit society and prevent the approaching destruction of the Earth.

89. Air Doll (2009)

Unrated | 125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Bae Doona , Arata Iura , Itsuji Itao , Joe Odagiri

Votes: 8,082

A blow-up doll in the form of a life-sized human female comes to life and falls in love.

90. The Umbrella Academy (2019–2024)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.

Stars: Aidan Gallagher , Elliot Page , Tom Hopper , David Castañeda

Votes: 273,631

Eccentric billionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves bought and adopted seven children born from mothers who gave birth spontaneously in different places around the world all on the same day. He gave the children numbers instead of names and then he made an android nanny named Grace who they call mother. Grace was programmed to take care of the children, and she gave them all names.

91. Cyborg (1989)

R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Deborah Richter , Vincent Klyn , Alex Daniels

Votes: 34,051 | Gross: $10.17M

In an apocalyptic future America ravaged by plague, an attractive human female named Pearl Prophet volunteered and was chosen to be made into a cyborg because of her matrix engineering background and her personality. When she takes off her long-haired black wig, the back of her bald head is full of artificial parts and the front is her normal face with an artificial eye. Her task is to find information in New York about a cure for the plague and bring it back to the doctors in Atlanta who made her a cyborg. After her male protector is killed, Pearl is captured by pirates. She spends the entire movie as a helpless hostage because the only abilities of hers that were enhanced during her cyborg conversion were her mental storage capacity and her artificial eye which helps her computer brain analyze what she is seeing. They should have given her a flame-thrower arm and a machine-gun leg to defend herself, but then she would not have needed saving by the musclebound male protagonist and there would be no movie.

92. Better Than Us (2018–2019)

12+ | 52 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A family on the brink of splitting up become the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.

Stars: Paulina Andreeva , Kirill Käro , Aleksandr Ustyugov , Olga Lomonosova

Votes: 10,628

In future Russia, robots serve humans in many ways, but they can only perform as programmed. We see them use as waiters, laborers, household assistants, and receptionists, and we see a variety of sex bots made to resemble attractive human females. Arisa is the prototype for a new generation of empathic bots, the first robots capable of detecting human emotions. She was designed in China, where there is a shortage of women, to be the perfect wife, allowing millions of men to marry and create a family, but her creator died before she could be finished and mass produced. Made to resemble an attractive female human, her mission is to love her man, adopt children, and protect them at any cost. Arisa is an excellent cook, housekeeper, nanny, companion, and protector, better than humans in every way. She has unlimited knowledge, she can monitor digital communications, she is bullet-proof, can quickly self-repair any wounds she receives, and she can help heal human injuries, she can use her hands as a defibrillator, and she can perform brain surgery. She also has the ability to evolve. She continues to learn how to interact better with human emotions, instantly reading a person's emotional state and whether they are lying or telling the truth. But unlike all other robots, Arisa is not programmed to follow the three Robotech laws that were implemented to prevent robots from deceiving or harming humans. Arisa can fight and disable any human in seconds, she can open her mouth and produce a sound so terrible that humans fall to the ground and electronics are disabled, and she will kill anybody who tries to harm her family. She's the perfect wife, mother, and killer bot.

93. Black Mirror (2011– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Featuring stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world.

Stars: Wunmi Mosaku , Monica Dolan , Daniel Lapaine , Hannah John-Kamen

Votes: 635,991

Season 5: "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9053874/?ref_=ttep_ep3 Pop star Ashley O (Miley Cyrus) is tired of the positive good-girl image that she is drugged into sustaining and rebels against her manager. In order to keep profiting from Ashley O's career, her manager drugs her into a permanent coma. Her technicians scan Ashley's brain to extract songs she was writing and use computerized samples of her voice to turn them into songs they can sell, but since selling songs doesn't make much money anymore, they need a more profitable concert tour. To replace Ashley O on stage, they invent a holographic version of her (controlled by a person in a special suit off stage) called "Ashley Eternal." The imitation Ashley O looks, dances, and sounds exactly like her. Her manager tries to sell the holographic system to other music managers with this sales pitch: Ashley Eternal is the most accurate and versatile holographic performer in history. Photo-realistic and fully-controllable, right down to instant costume changes. Ashley is also fully scalable - she can become larger than life size on stage so everybody can see her no matter how big the venue. She is also streamable. She can appear in thousands of locations simultaneously, so an entire nationwide tour can take place on the same night. Ashley Eternal is never exhausted, never sick, always pitch perfect, and always brings her A-game, unlike imperfect and temperamental human pop stars.

94. Alien Resurrection (1997)

R | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Sigourney Weaver , Winona Ryder , Dominique Pinon , Ron Perlman

Votes: 262,366 | Gross: $47.75M

Call (Wynona Rider) is an advanced Synthetic - an Auton, a second generation robot designed by other robots - made to look like an attractive human female. She is such a convincing human female that some of her crewmates lust after her. She can survive gunshots, and she could could originally access mainframes by remote before she destroyed her modem but she can still plug a wire into her arm to take over the functions of an entire space ship. Nevertheless, she hates herself and thinks she's disgusting, which makes her seem even more human than just her physical appearance.

95. Electric Dreams (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Philip K. Dick.

Stars: Bryan Cranston , Richard Madden , Steve Buscemi , Timothy Spall

Votes: 18,684

On post-nuclear-war dystopian Earth, Alice, a representative from an automated factory run by computers, describes herself as not a biological human, she's a G-10 simulacrum designed for human interaction. She is manufactured in the form of a woman who looks like Janelle Monae who wears what appears to be a silver swim cap, a skin-tight body suit, and enormous false eyelashes. She's a thinking robot, a hospitality unit made to look like a human because the humans she interacts with don't want to talk to a robot (they'd rather talk to Janelle Monae. I can't argue with that.) We discover later that Alice was modeled after the original PR head of the AutoFac and a big twist reveals other artificial females, but that takes us into spoiler territory.

96. Archive (2020)

TV-MA | 109 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs.

Director: Gavin Rothery | Stars: Theo James , Stacy Martin , Rhona Mitra , Peter Ferdinando

Votes: 26,245

In the mid 21st century, robotics expert George Almore works in an automated building on top of a waterfall in the middle of a forest in a Japan, where he makes robots with human-equivalent artificial intelligence. He has preserved his dead wife Jules by using Somnolent, an archive service that can save the consciousness of a dead person for about three years, allowing him to communicate with her occasionally with a telephone and a video screen. Before she expires he plans to download Jules into an artificial body. In the limited time available to him he has made three robots. The first one, J1, is a primitive robot with no voice or arms and the mind of a 6-year-old. J2 has a boxy metal body with the mind of a 15-year-old who talks with Jules' voice and English accent, but she is sullen and jealous and can't understand why George won't improve her instead of making a third robot. J Series Model 3 has a fully-developed adult woman's consciousness so George puts her in a woman's body covered with human-like skin but with blonde hair unlike his brunette wife. When she learns that George plans to replace her consciousness with Jules', J3 protests, not wanting to die.

97. Zone 414 (2021)

R | 98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Set in the near future, private detective David Carmichael is hired by Marlon Veidt, an eccentric businessman, to track down his missing daughter. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced A.I. to solve the mystery.

Director: Andrew Baird | Stars: Guy Pearce , Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz , Jonathan Aris , Colin Salmon

Votes: 5,589

In the near future, Jane is a highly-advanced sentient A.I. She is made to look like an attractive woman, and can change her hair color instantly. No wig needed. Billboard advertisements promise that she is "the future of human." But she does not turn off the way a robot is supposed to; she has feelings, even though as a robot she's not supposed to. She works in Zone 414, the only part of the city where robots and humans are allowed to interact. The rich and powerful go there to pay to do whatever they want with human-like androids. Jane is programmed to feel despair because powerful men are very attracted to those who suffer, to those who are helpless. But she is also depressed and suicidal and doesn't understand why she feels this way if she is a machine. One night when she returns from work to her huge loft apartment, she cuts her arm open with a knife to expose her inner machine parts just to prove to herself that she's not human. Unlike a human, her artificial skin rapidly heals itself.

98. Big Bug (2022)

TV-MA | 111 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Isabelle Nanty , Elsa Zylberstein , Claude Perron , Stéphane De Groodt

Votes: 10,396

In the future, Monique is a domestic robot made to look and sound like an old-fashioned human female, with a pageboy wig and a pale green mini-dress and go-go boots. She does the cooking and other kitchen work. She can detect the emotions and feelings of the humans around her and she can also use one of her fingers as a kitchen blender. She thinks that if she can learn human emotions she will be accepted by them as human.

99. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Set after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

Stars: Lena Headey , Thomas Dekker , Summer Glau , Richard T. Jones

Votes: 62,681

Summer Glau plays a cyborg made to look like an attractive human female. When a man calls her a robot, she describes herself as a hyper-alloy combat chassis - a cybernetic organism - living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

100. A.I. Rising (2018)

R | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

An intimate relationship between a human and an android tests the boundaries of human nature.

Director: Lazar Bodroza | Stars: Sebastian Cavazza , Stoya , Marusa Majer , Kirsty Besterman

Votes: 11,275

For his psychological well-being, an astronaut who is traveling alone to another solar system is provided with an android companion named Nimani who looks like an attractive human female with a Cleopatra haircut. She is programmed with many female personalities that he can choose and change at will, but they won't all have sex with him.

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Most Beautiful Star Trek Actresses Of All-Time

Posted: July 4, 2023 | Last updated: December 22, 2023

<p><span>There is one reason and one reason only that the</span><a href="https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/transporters-work-star-trek.html"> <i><span>Star Trek</span></i></a><span> franchise is filled with so many beautiful women and that would be because of its creator, Gene Roddenberry. He made it well known right from the start of the</span><a href="https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-picard-walter-koenig-chekov.html"> <i><span>Original Series</span></i></a><span> that whether they were principal cast members, guest stars, or even background players, they would all be beautiful.</span></p> <p><span>Since that time, each series in the franchise and each film has followed that edict. There are countless beautiful women who have graced the small and big screen in a </span><i><span>Star Trek</span></i><span> project, and we have found the 10 most beautiful. Here they are.</span></p>

Most Beautiful Star Trek Actresses of All-Time

There is one reason and one reason only that the Star Trek franchise is filled with so many beautiful women and that would be because of its creator, Gene Roddenberry. He made it well known right from the start of the Original Series that whether they were principal cast members, guest stars, or even background players, they would all be beautiful.

Since that time, each series in the franchise and each film has followed that edict. There are countless beautiful women who have graced the small and big screen in a Star Trek project, and we have found the 10 most beautiful. Here they are.

<p><span>Grace Lee Whitney was one of the original cast members of </span><i><span>The Original Series</span></i><span> and as Janice Rand, she was to be Captain Kirk’s (</span><a href="https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/william-shatner-star-trek-return.html"><span>William Shatner</span></a><span>) confidante. But it was determined that because of her looks that audiences might start to pair them up and Roddenberry didn’t want that for Kirk, so he got rid of the Rand character. </span></p> <p><span>Whitney actually returned to the franchise as Janice Rand in the feature films, </span><i><span>Star Trek: The Motion Picture,</span></i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088170/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_The%2520Search%2520for%2520Spock"> <i><span>The Search for Spock</span></i></a><i><span>, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country</span></i><span>, and for one episode of </span><i><span>Star Trek: Voyager</span></i><span>.</span></p>

Grace Lee Whitney

Grace Lee Whitney was one of the original cast members of The Original Series and as Janice Rand, she was to be Captain Kirk’s ( William Shatner ) confidante. But it was determined that because of her looks that audiences might start to pair them up and Roddenberry didn’t want that for Kirk, so he got rid of the Rand character.

Whitney actually returned to the franchise as Janice Rand in the feature films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Search for Spock , The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country , and for one episode of Star Trek: Voyager .

<p><span>Nana Visitor portrayed Major Kira Nerys for the entire 7-season run of </span><i><span>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</span></i><span>. She is a Bajoran and on DS9, she is the executive officer under the direction of Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). Visitor’s character showed nothing but strength and growth as the seasons wore on, putting her in various command positions.</span></p>

Nana Visitor

Nana Visitor portrayed Major Kira Nerys for the entire 7-season run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . She is a Bajoran and on DS9, she is the executive officer under the direction of Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). Visitor’s character showed nothing but strength and growth as the seasons wore on, putting her in various command positions.

<p><span>Ashley Judd, daughter of the late Naomi Judd and sister to Wynonna, joined the cast on </span><i><span>TNG</span></i><span> for a 2-episode stint as Ensign Robin Lefler. In the episode </span><i><span>The Game</span></i><span>, Ensign Lefler develops a bond with Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and together they try to figure out why a computer game has become so popular and addictive on the Enterprise.</span></p>

Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd, daughter of the late Naomi Judd and sister to Wynonna, joined the cast on TNG for a 2-episode stint as Ensign Robin Lefler. In the episode The Game , Ensign Lefler develops a bond with Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and together they try to figure out why a computer game has become so popular and addictive on the Enterprise.

<p><span>Terry Farrell spent the first six seasons on </span><i><span>Deep Space Nine</span></i><span>, finally leaving the hit series under tough circumstances (Thank you,</span><a href="https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-why-terry-farrell-jadzia-dax-left-ds9/"> <span>Rick Berman</span></a><span>). Farrell played Jadiza Dax in the series, a member of the Trill species. Near the end of her run on the show, the gorgeous Dax marries Worf, only to see her character killed off when she chose not to return for the 7</span><span>th</span><span> and final season.</span></p>

Terry Farrell

Terry Farrell spent the first six seasons on Deep Space Nine , finally leaving the hit series under tough circumstances (Thank you, Rick Berman ). Farrell played Jadiza Dax in the series, a member of the Trill species. Near the end of her run on the show, the gorgeous Dax marries Worf, only to see her character killed off when she chose not to return for the 7 th and final season.

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Nichelle Nichols

Some say it was her affair with Gene Roddenberry that got her the job as the original Nyota Uhura on Star Trek , but looking back at the Original Series , Nichelle Nichols was the perfect Uhura. Not only did Nichols portray Uhura in the Original Series , but she played a main part in each feature film (6 in total) that starred the cast of the Original Series .

<p><i><span>Star Trek: The Next Generation</span></i><span> ran for seven seasons and 176 total episodes. Marina Sirtis, as Deanna Troi, was one of six cast members who were involved in every episode that aired. She recently made a return to the character in the Patrick Stewart-led Picard series, as did many of the former TNG cast.</span></p>

Marina Sirtis

Star Trek: The Next Generation ran for seven seasons and 176 total episodes. Marina Sirtis, as Deanna Troi, was one of six cast members who were involved in every episode that aired. She recently made a return to the character in the Patrick Stewart-led Picard series, as did many of the former TNG cast.

<p><span>It is hard to compete with a legend such as Nichelle Nichols, but that is exactly what Zoe Saldana had to do in filling Nichols’ shoes as Nyota Uhura. The smoking-hot Saldana starred in the three most recent </span><i><span>Star Trek</span></i><span> films and played her Uhura with the same amount of confidence and strength as her predecessor.</span></p>

Zoe Saldana

It is hard to compete with a legend such as Nichelle Nichols, but that is exactly what Zoe Saldana had to do in filling Nichols’ shoes as Nyota Uhura. The smoking-hot Saldana starred in the three most recent Star Trek films and played her Uhura with the same amount of confidence and strength as her predecessor.

<p><i><span>Star Trek: Enterprise</span></i><span> was a series that was set a century before Captain Kirk took the helm of the Enterprise. Jolene Blalock played T’Pol, the Enterprise’s Science Officer. Enterprise co-creator said of the T’Pol character when casting, “We wanted a sexy Vulcan, a Kim Cattrall-type, and we definitely got that” with Blalock.</span></p>

Jolene Blalock

Star Trek: Enterprise was a series that was set a century before Captain Kirk took the helm of the Enterprise. Jolene Blalock played T’Pol, the Enterprise’s Science Officer. Enterprise co-creator said of the T’Pol character when casting, “We wanted a sexy Vulcan, a Kim Cattrall-type, and we definitely got that” with Blalock.

<p><span>Alice Eve’s natural beauty is without question. It is this beauty that was gratuitously put on display in the J.J. Abrams feature, </span><i><span>Star Trek Into Darkness</span></i><span> that caused such an upheaval. Eve plays Carol Marcus in the film and is with Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) preparing for a space shuttle to launch. </span></p> <p><span>A</span><span>lthough she tells Kirk to “turn around,” he instead continues to watch as Carol strips down to her undies. We get to see the entire thing, which was the start of the controversy. The bottom line – Alice Eve absolutely deserves to be on this list.</span></p>

Alice Eve’s natural beauty is without question. It is this beauty that was gratuitously put on display in the J.J. Abrams feature, Star Trek Into Darkness that caused such an upheaval. Eve plays Carol Marcus in the film and is with Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) preparing for a space shuttle to launch.

A lthough she tells Kirk to “turn around,” he instead continues to watch as Carol strips down to her undies. We get to see the entire thing, which was the start of the controversy. The bottom line – Alice Eve absolutely deserves to be on this list.

<p><span>Right when</span><a href="https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/jeri-ryan-confirms-voyager-reunion.html"> <span>Jeri Ryan</span></a><span> appeared as Seven of Nine on </span><i><span>Star Trek: Voyager</span></i><span> in her skintight catsuits, Trekkies got to see what striking beauty and sex appeal were all about. Ryan joined the cast of <em>Star Trek: Voyager</em> at the start of season four (the series ran fittingly for seven seasons) and immediately appeared on magazine covers and talk shows.</span></p> <p><span>When Ryan’s character was first conceived, she was going to be a “wild child.” Brannon Braga, <em>Star Trek: Voyager</em> executive producer, had visioned Seven of Nine as “a girl raised by wolves.” </span></p> <p><span>It wasn’t until Rick Berman stepped in and although he liked the idea of a new character such as Seven of Nine, he saw her more as a “Borg babe.” The network loved Berman’s take and the sexy Seven of Nine was created. She has also made a reappearance on </span><i><span>Star Trek: Picard</span></i><span>.</span></p>

There was one reason Jeri Ryan’s character of Seven of Nine was created for the Star Trek: Voyager series, and that was to be the contrast to Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Kathryn Janeway.

The producers wanted someone who could be eye candy and that is what Ryan became. It helped immensely that Ryan could act and the stories that involved her character were not written just to show off her beauty. Regardless, Jeri Ryan belongs at the top of this list.

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Sonequa Martin-Green Has 'Settled Into' Her 'Worth as a Black Woman in a Way That I Would Not Have Imagined' (Exclusive)

"It has meant a great deal to stand in this position and to have, in a way, grown to fit the position," the actress told PEOPLE of playing Star Trek's first Black female captain

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Sonequa Martin-Green is embracing her worth.

The actress portrays Star Trek: Discovery ’s Michael Burnham, the first Black female captain in the long-running franchise, and recently spoke with PEOPLE about how the groundbreaking role has changed her. 

"Since the impact that the show has had on my life has changed over time, it's really hard to answer that question because I feel a certain way about it right now, but I'm going to feel even differently a month from now,” Martin-Green, 38, said at SCAD TVFest in Atlanta on Feb. 8 when asked how being on the series has changed her career. “I'm going to feel even differently five years from now. And it's hard for me to say how it's impacted me when I know that there is still more to come from it.”

Reflecting, Martin-Green shared that playing the protagonist has helped her realize and accept a new level of “worth.”

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"I've settled into my worth as a Black woman in a way that I would not have imagined that was facilitated by the story, that was facilitated by playing Michael Burnham and then Captain Michael Burnham,” she continued. “And then, by the connections that I've made with the people that tell this story. Those connections, they're the kind that ripple throughout the rest of your life.”

Still, Martin-Green doesn’t plan on stopping — and said there’s room for even more personal evolution, telling PEOPLE, “It has meant a great deal to stand in this position and to have, in a way, grown to fit the position. And I'm still growing to fit it.”

She explained, “It's like on one hand I understand that I don't need to do that, but then at the same time it's like that position is greater than me, so I'll just always be growing into it.”

The Walking Dead alum became emotional at the idea of being able to show her 9-year-old son, Kenric Justin III, the CBS series one day, giving him a chance to see her star as a Black lead. 

“He hasn't seen it yet,” said Martin-Green, who shares Kenric III and 3-year-old daughter Saraiyah Chaunté with husband Kenric Green, 41. She added that she’s “excited” for the moment Kenric III and Saraiyah — who wasn’t born yet when Martin-Green began playing Captain Burnham — are ready to tune in to the series. 

“I mean, I could really cry talking about what I might be able to lead by example, what I might be able to show them by example and teach them from what I've experienced and how they might benefit from it,” said the mom of two. “That's everything right there.”

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A robot by Dr. Ira Graves

A robot was a machine that automatically performed a set of typically pre-programmed tasks and had limited autonomy . ( TOS : " I, Mudd ")

In early science fiction writing, the idea of a robot tended to include thinking machines that could perform independent judgments . Later, this was revised to the idea of an android and the notion of robots became limited to less advanced forms of machines. The basis for this change is generally credited to Isaac Asimov who, though referring to them as robots, created characters who were far more intelligent than Humans and operated according to the "Three Laws of Robotics" which later became the accepted basis for many characteristics of android behavior .

Besides a robotic dog , Dr. Ira Graves had another robot with a frog -like head in his home on Gravesworld . ( TNG : " The Schizoid Man ")

Albert Macklin , a science fiction writer for Incredible Tales magazine during the 1950s , wrote stories that featured robots almost exclusively. ( DS9 : " Far Beyond the Stars ")

Deep Space 9 had a store called Tom Servo's Used Robots . ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine set decoration)

The holographic novel The Adventures of Captain Proton featured a character known as Satan's Robot . ( VOY : " Night ", " Bride of Chaotica! ")

The M-4 unit was a robot constructed by Flint . ( TOS : " Requiem for Methuselah ")

In 2259 of the alternate reality , James T. Kirk declared that he was not going to take ethics lessons from a robot, namely Spock , after the Vulcan tried to explain why firing advanced long-range torpedoes at " John Harrison " and Qo'noS was unacceptable. ( Star Trek Into Darkness )

In 2266 , a frantic Dave Bailey asked if the crew of the USS Enterprise were robots due to their lack of reaction to what he percieved as the end. ( TOS : " The Corbomite Maneuver ")

In 2267 , James T. Kirk argued that the Vaalians were people rather than robots and should be able to make their own choices rather than have their willpower superseded by Vaal . ( TOS : " The Apple ")

In 2268 , upon Ensign Harper 's death at the hands of the M-5 multitronic unit , Kirk became upset, saying that unlike the unmanned ore freighter it had previously destroyed, the ensign wasn't a robot. ( TOS : " The Ultimate Computer ")

In 2364 , L.Q. Clemonds , upon hearing Commander William T. Riker refer to Lieutenant Commander Data as an android, asked if he meant a robot. To this, Data responded that there was a distinct difference between an android and a robot. ( TNG : " The Neutral Zone ")

In 2369 , the exocomps , a type of highly advanced industrial and utility robots began displaying signs of sentience and self-preservation . The Federation later recognized the exocomps as artificial lifeforms , and in 2380 , at least one exocomp served as an ensign in Starfleet . ( TNG : " The Quality of Life "; LD : " No Small Parts ")

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  • Robotic Systems
  • The Complete Robot

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In the Fifteenth UK Story Arc , set in the late 2260s , a research depot on Venus lent the USS Enterprise experimental repair robots.

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  • Robot at Wikipedia
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  • 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

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