Star Trek Voyager®, "Prototype"

'''"Prototype." Star Trek Voyager®''', 15 Jan. 1996.

Two robot societies have survived their warring, organic creators (cf. P. K. Dick's "Autofac"; cf. and contrast Dick's "Defenders" [q.v. under fiction]). A deactivated humanoid robot from one society is found floating in space by Voyager. Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres repairs "him"—and he kidnaps her and threatens to destroy the Voyager unless Torres builds a prototype to allow the making of more units (for a [Bride of] Frankenstein motif). Summarized Cinefantastique 28.4/5 (Nov. 1996): 92-93, which says that the episode "fails to exploit" the premise of "a society in which the weapons have killed their creators in order to carry on the war" in favor of "the personal impact the creation and destruction of the prototype has on Torres"—given the clear implications that destroying the prototype is for her a kind of infanticide. The robots have no facial expressions but excellent manners.