Although I could swear there was a supporting Klingon crewmember in "A Matter of Honor" who had Worf's season 1 forehead.
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Although I could swear there was a supporting Klingon crewmember in "A Matter of Honor" who had Worf's season 1 forehead.
I was not trying to rationalize it: Scotty never actually does anything in the episode that demonstrates his dislike of women, so I based my comment on the assumption that McCoy and Kirk are not fully describing what is happening. It makes more logical sense that way than taking their claim of an (offscreen) resentment at face value.
Actually 3 episodes in a row: "Operation: Annihilate!," "Amok Time," and "This Side of Paradise" almost make a single story of Spock enduring hardships and learning to go on. The progression of those 3 episodes is, to me, one of the stronger arguments in favor of startdate order, even though there are definitely problems with making that work for the whole series.
Like I said earlier in this post, it just does not seem likely that Scotty's resentment could be total, or anywhere nearly as strong as the words of dialogue suggest, implying there could be more to the story.
I remember Spock getting blinded in "Operation: Annihilate!", but I don't really remember him acting erratic and emotional the way he does in "Amok Time" or "This Side of Paradise." Putting it in an "arc" with those other two episodes is a real reach, IMO.
Good.
Their weak justification for going to such an establishment; it's not just men going to see pretty women dance, it's rehab for Scotty. McCoy, as Scotty's doctor, "supervises" the "therapy", while Kirk comes along for "moral support".
The two are not mutually exclusive: losing the mold would mean a very finite supply of prostheses, so may as well make a new mold and start using it immediately.
Pretty sure the Captain Korris (Vaughn Armstrong) head prosthesis was already several years old and had been used for one of Kruge's crew in TSFS.
I just got back from visiting Paris... Quasimodo's daughters Paramodo and Bimodo. And the trucker Semimodo.
I just did a skim through the screencaps on TrekCore and couldn't find one that matched. Kruge's looks somewhat close, but the brow ridge doesn't match.
Oh, not his, but one of the crew that dies on Genesis.
That's the one. That head looks pretty damn close to the "Heart of Glory" head prosthetic.
I bet if he had an actual name, Kirk might've attempted to save him. Kirk can't know which of the two killed David. (I forget myself, though I'm guessing it was the same one Spock whupped later on.)Maybe this guy? The one that Kirk blasts away with a phaser when he finds Saavik and Spock?
I did not view the arc in the way I think you are describing. I view the arc as Spock being emotionally tested and also that he "acts uncharacteristically" in all 3 episodes, even though the first it is due to an alien force in his body, the second is his own genetics, and the third is a different alien force that allows him to show emotions that are already inside him.
(I think I'm agreeing with you?) I don't think that Kirk and McCoy literally think this is therapy or that Scotty needs that locations services as therapy. I think they just wanted to check out this bar that supposedly has good looking women.
Also, if we count the idea that Scotty was thought killed by Nomad, they ARE trying to see how Scotty would react (not actually therapy), but apparently they did not account for how illogically he might act, because they seemed seriously concerned that he might have been the criminal. If they were that concerned, they should have not brought him along, a possible error they don't repeat at the end when everyone is intoxicated. Perhaps the planet's head official realized this possible error was made when Kirk tries to get Scotty cleared of teh crime, and that is why, in frustration, he keeps referring to Kirk svaing Argelius as a space port.
Well, yes, that's the point. It's not "therapy" in any formal sense, it's just the 1960s assumption that a man not being sexually interested in women is abnormal, so the way to get him over his resentment of women is to remind him of how sexy women are. Although now that I put it in as many words, it feels more 1950s, really. Just that overall generation before the Sexual Revolution kicked in.
No, Jaris said earlier that "news of this frightful murder is spreading among my people. They're greatly disturbed. I have already heard talk of closing Argelius to space vehicles." This is a planet of pacifists, frightened by the prospect of a murderer coming to their planet, and wanting to close their borders to keep out the violence. When Jaris asked Kirk if he'd be as concerned with saving Argelius as a spaceport as he was with saving his friend, he was using the threat of closing the port as a bit of political leverage to remind Kirk not to put his loyalty to his crewman above the Argelians' determination to see the murderer brought to justice.
Or at least that Scotty not being interested is abnormal for him.
TOS male leads did come off at times as pretty horny.
So, not so much an arc but more like similar theme. Like those old 3 episode VHS or DVD sets they used to put out where there was same or similar theme.
You haven't seen it in a while.
Spock lost his mind in "Operation Annihilate" and attacked everyone on the bridge. He was screaming. He tried to take the ship down.You haven't seen it in a while.
Spock was so under the brain cell's control he even tried to nerve pinch Kirk and make Enterprise leave orbit and infect another planet. But, your point is valid. He expressed strong emotions...while subject to alien duress.
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