Lazy five pasty-faced bastards. The sexism was appropriate given all Enterprise women shown in this episode were limited in their responsibilities. I only hope Doctor Noel transferred out with Yeoman Rand before Operation Wipeout. If there was racism, Shea and Uhura got short shrift, except when we consider:
*Kirk has never seriously relied on security guards to protect him. Their true unstated responsibility is to disintegrate, explode, fall apart and arrange for parental payoffs through Starfleet insurance credits. Shea is not the only guard to survive a mission, but he's in the lucky minority. By my ''logic,'' he and the other rare survivors have failed in their mission. Still, he gets to live.....and gets our minds off the potential racism of erasing him twice. (If you desire to see the unblocked Shea in future adventures, check out John Byrne's excellent photocomics of the 2010s. They reassigned him to less stressful duties.) However:
* Uhura was first on the Enterprise to suffer dehydrated cocaine-blocking after Rojan commenced Operation Sugarcubes. Not necessarily racist, but Rojan wiped out her and the Davy Jones lookalike before the silent female redshirt, Ensign Stoneface and Generic Third Officer got the treatment simultaneously.
It seems my Hyattsville Library convention organizer provided us with false information. During that same free-con, I was expected to identify a Gary Mitchell quote which was always cut out for syndication!
Good idea. Let's retcon Mira Romaine and temporarily fire Scotty for the Argelius incidents.
I think Rojan would have, or should have kept the engineers. And if Helen Noel was on board, sparing her instead of McCoy would definitely have given Spock five less insults a day to hash out.
