Doesn't change his actions against Kirk. This isn't a question of nuance but of consequence for recent behavior. Admiration should not factor in to it.
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That's certainly how the law as written lays it out. However, Starship captains have the power to disregard those regulations if they choose, which is also in keeping with the law!
KIRK: This hearing is now in session. Under the authority vested in me by Starfleet Command, I declare all charges and specifications in this matter have been dropped.
MCCOY: Jim. Agreed you have the authority
Imagine they'd done that (and mentioned that aspect of history). It'd easily have been the most controversial episode in the history of Trek, ever.
TOS city on the edge of forever. Boring episode
Drug crazed doctor!
And off screen auto accident!!!!!
I don't find the great romance convincing because continuity wasn't the norm for TOS. Kirks grief was over by the next episode
Tbf I don’t find Joan Collins convincing. In general.
No one was really thinking about continuity when it was made and when it was broadcast. We were slightly less jaded back then. It was done in one like when at the movies.
It was 1960s television. In my head canon Kirk grieved Edith's death until his own.
Edith should have been in the Nexus.
DAMN STRAIGHT. And according to production stories she was actually considered. But things didn't work out. Joan Collins was brought up at one point but soon discounted as a cameo.
About Kirk grieving Edith.
Maybe it's like Knight Rider wiper blades in Futurama, they were evil but it didn't come across in the show.
So Kirk was grieving but didn't let anyone notice?
If you don't know what the Knight Rider wiper blade thing is, shame on you, watch the episode. =)
Maybe it's like Knight Rider wiper blades in Futurama, they were evil but it didn't come across in the show.
So Kirk was grieving but didn't let anyone notice?
If you don't know what the Knight Rider wiper blade thing is, shame on you, watch the episode. =)
Edith was the perfect woman for Kirk, she fit better to him than all other women he met imo.
I always felt Kirk's Nexus fantasy should have been him aboard the Enterprise, in the captain's chair, with the TOS crew. To exist in a fantasy where he's still in charge of a starship AND knows David is alive and well.
I realize that was probably not possible, since Nimoy and other cast members had made it clear they were either not going to show up for something that amounted to a short cameo or they felt they were done after The Undiscovered Country.
The mountain cabin and woman upstairs waiting for him to bring breakfast never felt right for the character.
I don't think the movies leads one to believe Kirk was obsessing about the "one who got away" or may have secretly desired or wanted a family. I don't get the feeling he came to regret the choice of a life in Starfleet. If anything, I think everything leads one to believe that Kirk is only really happy when he's allowed to be in his "first, best destiny."
I always wondered if there's anything to be taken from the way leadership and the captain role is usually written in Star Trek that only 2 of the Trek series show captains in committed relationships or marriages (i.e., DS9 and DSC with Michael, Saru, and Sisko)? Kirk, Picard, Archer, Janeway, etc., are shown to be "in love" with their roles and the purpose it gives them, to the point that they've sacrificed the idea of having significant others in their day-to-day life.
I realize that was probably not possible, since Nimoy and other cast members had made it clear they were either not going to show up for something that amounted to a short cameo or they felt they were done after The Undiscovered Country.
The mountain cabin and woman upstairs waiting for him to bring breakfast never felt right for the character.
I don't think the movies leads one to believe Kirk was obsessing about the "one who got away" or may have secretly desired or wanted a family. I don't get the feeling he came to regret the choice of a life in Starfleet. If anything, I think everything leads one to believe that Kirk is only really happy when he's allowed to be in his "first, best destiny."
I always wondered if there's anything to be taken from the way leadership and the captain role is usually written in Star Trek that only 2 of the Trek series show captains in committed relationships or marriages (i.e., DS9 and DSC with Michael, Saru, and Sisko)? Kirk, Picard, Archer, Janeway, etc., are shown to be "in love" with their roles and the purpose it gives them, to the point that they've sacrificed the idea of having significant others in their day-to-day life.
Archer was romantically involved with Columbia Captain Erika Hernandez for a short period after the Xindi Crisis, but yeah, that didn't last long and he's still single when the NX-01 is decommissioned in 2161.
This exactly - in my version, it ends with him willingly, by choice, re-entering that world, rejoining his friends and family.
I think the main takeaway from that is that Trek owes a large portion of its conceptual ideas about fleet existence to Horatio Hornblower and the old timey Royal Navy genre of tales in general.
But Horatio was married twice and had three kids...
It’s a hot take that’s bound to ruffle some feathers.
I approve.
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