I did a cursory look through the memos and see nothing about these.
You can probably thank Gene Coon for that, as he suggests a line of that sort to Bloch in a letter. I've not read all the documents enough to see if anyone suggested it to Coon.
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Regarding the discussion of Scotty's amnesia and the targets of the violence, I'll repeat that in stardate order this episode is immediately after "The Changeling." Thus, Scotty has been healed by Nomad, and Kirk and McCoy don't know how or why Nomad was able to "repair" Scotty. Nor do they know how effective that effort was, and even on top of that Scotty is claiming to have trouble remembering.
Kirk and McCoy reference an "accident which threw Scotty against a bulkhead," which is not an unrealistic way to describe what Nomad did without actually saying aloud that they thought Nomad had killed him. As to whether the accident was "caused by a woman," perhaps Kirk and McCoy are not saying who actually caused the accident, but are paraphrasing an unseen conversation through which Scotty was showing resentment for the fact that he stepped in to "save" Uhura. It would not unusal for someone to feel resentment if they had been injured during that kind of act.
Kirk and McCoy reference an "accident which threw Scotty against a bulkhead," which is not an unrealistic way to describe what Nomad did without actually saying aloud that they thought Nomad had killed him. As to whether the accident was "caused by a woman," perhaps Kirk and McCoy are not saying who actually caused the accident, but are paraphrasing an unseen conversation through which Scotty was showing resentment for the fact that he stepped in to "save" Uhura. It would not unusal for someone to feel resentment if they had been injured during that kind of act.
@Mres_was_framed! Uhura would still be recovering from her reset, as well. Otherwise, she might have wound up in Redjac's sights.
I go with production order on my Star Trek Chronology, so "Wolf in the Fold" happens right before "The Changeling" for me, but in one of my earlier drafts, I noted that WITF happens shortly after "Who Mourns For Adonais?", where Carolyn Palamas rejects Scotty in favor of Apollo. And, if you incorporate DC's Star Trek Annual #3 into your personal headcanon, a few weeks after that, Scotty discovers that
his childhood sweetheart Glynnis Campbell has married his old friend/rival Angus McFarlane.
So it seems obvious that Scotty was having a VERY bad year where women were concerned.
Or maybe you're reading too much into that.
Though it's immediately before it in production order, and 11 episodes after it in broadcast order. On the whole, stardate order is completely nonsensical for TOS, but I agree there's a nice synchronicity in connecting Scotty's traumas in the two episodes. However, I find your effort to rationalize Scotty's "resentment of women" unconvincing, since I don't see why he'd resent Uhura for what Nomad did. Not your fault, though, since it's a very difficult thing to come up with a non-problematical explanation for.
Agreed. I gave up on Stardate order for TOS when I saw that it put "This Side of Paradise" right after "Amok Time." So for two episodes in a row, the crew is going, "Hey, why is Mr. Spock acting so erratic and emotional?"
As headcanon explanations go, that's a pretty decent one right there. And, if we consider an intended plot consequence that was reportedly suppressed by the network, Scotty would also shortly be finding out that Apollo knocked his girlfriend up!production order ... WITF happens shortly after "Who Mourns For Adonais?", where Carolyn Palamas rejects Scotty in favor of Apollo. ... Scotty was having a VERY bad year where women were concerned.
In any case, the whole "hates girls now 'cause a girl got him injured" idea was just stupid from start to finish. So unlike the chief engineer we all know and love.
No, I'd say never having seen South Park makes you less likely to be annoying. (And I say this as someone who watched the show fairly regularly until 2016.)
He's frustrated and burned out on romance - perhaps he was attracted to a woman (someone comparable in rank) he was working with and she made a mistake he would have caught if he wasn't so infatuated with her, thereby she "caused" the explosion.
That just means giving up on romantic pursuits. It's a very different thing from suddenly becoming a bigot.
Thats essentially what I meant. They just really overstated Scotty’s mindset given how rapidly he seemed to have recovered by the beginning of the episode. He didn’t behave at all like someone who had something against women in general. Whoever wrote that into the script didn’t know shit.
They had to contrive an excuse for Scotty being suspected of the murders, so they gave him a resentment for women out of nowhere. It was very clumsy, yes.
I would point out, though, that it is sadly all too possible for a man to desire women as sexual conquests yet still resent or hate them as people. Which is why it was so stupid for the episode to say that the way to cure Scotty of his sudden misogyny was to take him to a pleasure planet to get laid.
When simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time would suffice, as any Perry Mason fan knows.
They need a reason where Scotty can be found not just to have done it, but to be guilty. Even a head injury could potentially be argued as having given him temporary insanity, or at least non-responsibility.
We the audience are supposed to believe Scotty may have done it, whether he's responsible for his actions or not. So what else could they have written as his reason? A fit of sudden anger (possible), an accident (stabbed her by accident? hardly), the girl and he have a past (he just met her), money (the Federation doesn't need it), she saw him allegedly commit another crime (that could have worked) he's violent and likes to kill (surely not)...
It might have been a more effective story if the suspect had been a guest crewmember rather than Scotty, so that we wouldn't be sure he wasn't the killer. But presumably they figured the emotional stakes for the audience would be higher if it were one of the main characters in peril of being sentenced to death.
Then they could have had the suspect be a sibling, cousin, friend, classmate, or love interest of a hero. The hero would be the one who would be certain they couldn't have done it.
Yeah, it's been done countless times. And Scotty not being able to remember what happened would be a question mark in itself: "How could someone not remember anything of something like that? That sounds suspicious."When simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time would suffice, as any Perry Mason fan knows.
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