Captain Kirk - clairvoyant!

[toonloon]

I saw something a bit spooky when watching "The Changeling" the other day. Captain Kirk has a premonition at the end of the episode.

At the very end of the show he refers jokingly to "his son, the doctor" and then makes a stabbing motion towards his own chest foreshadowing the death of his actual son, a doctor, who was stabbed in the chest by a klingon.

Weird.

 

[Christopher]

That wasn't a stabbing motion, he was thumping his chest to indicate his heart. "It gets you right here." It's a common way of expressing that something reaches you emotionally.

I'll grant you that "My son, the doctor" was unintentionally prophetic, but "stabbing motion?" That's a gigantic reach.

 

[Green Shirt]

When was David Marcus ever referred to as "Doctor"?

 

[SchwEnt]

TWOK...

"Where's Dr. Marcus?"

"I'M Dr. Marcus!"

 

[Anwar]

Wouldn't he have only been like 23 or so then? How could he have a PHD at that age?

 

[toonloon]

That wasn't a stabbing motion, he was thumping his chest to indicate his heart. "It gets you right here." It's a common way of expressing that something reaches you emotionally.

I'll grant you that "My son, the doctor" was unintentionally prophetic, but "stabbing motion?" That's a gigantic reach.

In the interest of making a fun post about a tv show, I don't think it's that much a "reach". Okay, how about I say, "Kirk makes a closed fist gesture towards his own chest which partially represents the closed fist gesture by a Klingon national which resulted in the untimely death of his illegimate son"?

 

[Timewalker]

Wouldn't he have only been like 23 or so then? How could he have a PHD at that age?

Because he was smart? Maybe he specialized in science at an early age? Educational methods have to have improved in 300 years, so why couldn't David have a doctorate at age 23?

 

[Green Shirt]

TWOK...

"Where's Dr. Marcus?"

"I'M Dr. Marcus!"

Forgot.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Wouldn't he have only been like 23 or so then? How could he have a PHD at that age?

He was working for his Mom instead of doing a paper route after school.

 

[ClawsThatCatch]

I guess it was a good guess that he would have a son who turned out to be a doctor.

Frankly, I don't think he only had one son though. I think he only had one son that he knew about.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Frankly, I don't think he only had one son though. I think he only had one son that he knew about.

You should watch the spectacular "Bastards of Kirk":

http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2007/10/kirks-bastards-i-accidentally-came.html

 

[David cgc]

Was it intentional that only the first three words of the article made it into the URL?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Frankly, I don't think he only had one son though. I think he only had one son that he knew about.

Yeah, "my son, the Horta" got left on the cutting room floor.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Was it intentional that only the first three words of the article made it into the URL?

My URL?

Happy coincidence. It was auto-contracted by Blogger. (Since their upgrade, only the title now goes into a post's URL.)