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cosmic_llinWatched Is There in Truth No Beauty? last night and I’m still not done laughing. What it must be like to be in Captain Kirk’s brain:
‘This attractive woman is somehow resisting my ham-fisted romantic overtures... she must have crippling psychological issues that can only be overcome by me slandering and attempting to strangle her!’
The shocking thing is that it seems to work. Without that final scene where she thanks him, this is a story about a bunch of sex-crazed idiots who harass a perfectly normal lady while she’s busy trying to be all sciencey and stuff, and then do fatally dumb things because she tries to politely inform them that she’s not interested. I think Kirk probably gave her concussion in that Sickbay scene and that’s why she ends up acting like he’s done her some sort of favour.
Seriously, if you take out the dumb IDIC part which is only in there because GR wanted to sell the pins as merchandise, she doesn’t do anything even remotely objectionable – the business with Spock is reasonable professional jealousy and although the scream is a bit much, she’s bound to be worried when it’s so crazy dangerous and she’s invested so much time and effort working out how to do it properly and Spock, for all that he was offered the job before her, didn’t then go on to do all the research and prep that she presumably did.
So yeah, I kind of want to make my own cut of this episode so that it’s more win…
‘This attractive woman is somehow resisting my ham-fisted romantic overtures... she must have crippling psychological issues that can only be overcome by me slandering and attempting to strangle her!’
The shocking thing is that it seems to work. Without that final scene where she thanks him, this is a story about a bunch of sex-crazed idiots who harass a perfectly normal lady while she’s busy trying to be all sciencey and stuff, and then do fatally dumb things because she tries to politely inform them that she’s not interested. I think Kirk probably gave her concussion in that Sickbay scene and that’s why she ends up acting like he’s done her some sort of favour.
Seriously, if you take out the dumb IDIC part which is only in there because GR wanted to sell the pins as merchandise, she doesn’t do anything even remotely objectionable – the business with Spock is reasonable professional jealousy and although the scream is a bit much, she’s bound to be worried when it’s so crazy dangerous and she’s invested so much time and effort working out how to do it properly and Spock, for all that he was offered the job before her, didn’t then go on to do all the research and prep that she presumably did.
So yeah, I kind of want to make my own cut of this episode so that it’s more win…
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