Amok Time - A True Classic!

I always end up dating women who look like the three witches from Catspaw myself and it's been noted, Doctor, by a lot of my comrades!
JB

 

Playing devil's advocate here - why should T'Pring marry a man she doesn't like?
I would support any woman/man wanting to escape an arranged marriage.

However T'Pring seemed to be without honour. All about the money, property. If she'd just wanted to be with Stonn then he should have been her champion.
I don't agree that she was flawlessly logical. She could have ended up being Kirk's property. And if he had been forced to kill Spock I don't think he would have let T'Pring free to go off into the sunset with Stonn.

 

Stonn apparently did not have an influential family/clan, nor any wealth/properties, hence he was not a good catch. In Vulcan society, he was a gigolo.

 

Stonn was there for T'Pring and not going to be returning to a starship for year in and year out without a word!
JB

 

I just think it is great that the Vulcans do something that is not logical. And it seems right somehow that how they find a mate is not based on logic. Sometimes arranged marriages like Spock's was. Sometimes a heat of a moment thing like I think Spock's parents marriage was.

 

Disgusting.

So tired of the endless blanket use of the b word to describe any woman who isn't sweetness and light. The "hot" qualifier just makes it worse.

 

Can you imagine how Vulcans select mates that have not been arranged! Two Vulcans who have been working closely together for many years and one decides to say that we should be married and the other asks why, the first replies that logic dictates it due to their getting on at work and close friendship! When the other thinks about it, she soon realises that he is correct and that she cannot find a suitable reason to refuse!!! If only it was that easy here on earth now or in the future!!!
JB

 

Fucking chill

 

Guys, let's try to be civil. I tend to think T'Pring could have been much nicer, but Spock didn't seem to care that she rejected him by the end of the episode, and as Maurice said, throwing the b word around any time a woman doesn't act likeable is not the answer. I don't want to see this thread shut down over something stupid. Let's try to get along, and agree that this was a great hour of Star Trek!

 

<looks for Moderator flag next to name, doesn't see one>
Yeah, no.

 

The word "Bitch" was used in context of the conversation
A previous poster used the words (paraphrasing) Cold Hearted Bitch regarding a female character
I simply said that said character was hot, not cold hearted
So I used the expression "Hot bitch", basically quoting the B word whaich had already been used
It's not terminology that I use in every day language regarding women, and if anyone is offended then I apologise
But really, read the posts leading up to mine, and try not to be so offended, it was a misguided attempt at humour and I've seen plenty other examples on here of opinions that I wouldn't voice,

 

You wrote:

Which isn't what you're spinning it as at all. Sorry.

EDIT: Just saw T'Bonz replied. No need for me to comment further.

 

T'Pring mentioned that Spock's legend was well known upon Vulcan and that she didn't want to be the wife of as legend! A simple farm and a hard working husband was all that she wanted! However long Stonn could keep that going on for anyways!
JB

 

I'm not spinning anything pal, I apologised, if you aren't happy with that then so be it.
Maybe humour is an alien concept to you.
Have a nice day

 

It was a joke
In reply and in context to a previous poster who had already used the B bomb
And no one says women all have to look like Hollywood starlets at all.

 

In Blish's novelisation there were some differences.
In the televised show Spock begged T'Pau to release Kirk from the fight but in the novelisation T;Pau offered Spock the chance to call off the fight but Spock (in his maddened state) refused.
And T'Pring said she didn't want Spock because Stonn was more easily controlled. (and that she would

I'm assuming that was in the original script.? I wonder what Sturgeon's attitude to this change was.

 

As shot, the episode really doesn't convey the idea that T'Pring would have wanted Stonn. Refusing to let Stonn fight is likely to cost her that particular relationship, and she seems fine with it. But it is a logical way to wiggle out of the forced marriage with Spock, while not doing significant harm to Stonn in the end.

Spock isn't likely to be physically harmed in fighting and killing Kirk, either. But there will be major damage to his career and psyche, which is something T'Pring might have avoided if she tried. That she didn't fits the pattern of her being dismayed by Spock's career specifically: she can't easily hurt the Elders who forced this union, but she can channel her revenge at Spock, and let some of it bleed to T'Pau as well.

Is vengeance illogical? Only if it carries consequences. And if T'Pring is capable of it, then so no doubt is T'Pau, and a vendetta cycle is likely, in true Old Vulcan fashion. So probably there would be harsh sanctions for attempted vengeance in the Vulcan society - and given the severity and delicate nature of the specific matter at hand, both politically and by Vulcan tradition, T'Pring might simply disappear once Kirk dies and Spock retires in disgrace... So possibly not an ice-cold mastermind at all, but rather just a desperate woman driven into a corner where she has to take a gamble that may well cost her her life.

Timo Saloniemi