Character questions

[Nerys Myk]

Charlie Evans Prime must like the cougars. The idea that she's as old as Kirk and Spock just doesnt seem right for the character. Makes her kind of pathetic.

Lol - well, she made it quite clear that she was much older than Charlie. I think he was just fooled by the softglow machine that she took with her everwhere.

I don't think that being 36 makes Rand pathetic! She was the Captain's Yeoman which is a senior enlisted position on the ship (most probably a senior petty officer). In TMP she was a CPO, which is a senior enlisted rank and was shown to be part of the engineering team. She was equivalent to O'Brien, a (retconned) CPO of similar age to Rand who was operating as a transporter officer in TNG and I've never heard anyone suggest he was pathetic.

I was disappointed that they didn't make better use of her character overall but all of the women in TOS were woefully underused.

A woman in her early twenties mooning after her boss is passable, but a mature professional in her mid thirties doing the same is a bit sad. (You too Nurse Chapel!!!)

 

[Pauln6]

A woman in her early twenties mooning after her boss is passable, but a mature professional in her mid thirties doing the same is a bit sad. (You too Nurse Chapel!!!)

I think that it makes no difference what the age of the woman, it's rather poor is the major part of her role is to moon after a male character *cough* NuUhura *cough*.

 

[Nerys Myk]

When you're young its different. At least in Uhura's case there was an actual relationship. Chapel and Rand, not so much.

 

[Pauln6]

When you're young its different. At least in Uhura's case there was an actual relationship. Chapel and Rand, not so much.

When you're an older woman Hollywood seems to assume that it's different. Rather surprisingly, many older women are in actual relationships and many of them have crushes on men.

Of course Kirk can't get involved with an older woman since that would violate canon (Miri)

 

[propita]

I know that when Hubby graduated Pharmacy School with a doctorate (PharmD), had he entered the Army as mailings from them suggested, he'd've gone in as a Captain. Just like in MASH (Hawkeye, BJ, etc--but sticking around or something could get one promoted to Major, like Frank Burns --or beyond, like Colonel Potter. Not sure about Henry, though).

 

[Nerys Myk]

When you're young its different. At least in Uhura's case there was an actual relationship. Chapel and Rand, not so much.

When you're an older woman Hollywood seems to assume that it's different. Rather surprisingly, many older women are in actual relationships and many of them have crushes on men.

Of course Kirk can't get involved with an older woman since that would violate canon (Miri)

Ruth. She must have been in her thirties when Kirk knew her as a cadet.

 

[Pauln6]

I know that when Hubby graduated Pharmacy School with a doctorate (PharmD), had he entered the Army as mailings from them suggested, he'd've gone in as a Captain. Just like in MASH (Hawkeye, BJ, etc--but sticking around or something could get one promoted to Major, like Frank Burns --or beyond, like Colonel Potter. Not sure about Henry, though).

That's interesting. I've been trying to mock up a possible crew listing for the Enterprise refit but I swapped the pharmacist from a junior officer (i.e. Lt) to a possible PO/CPO. I'll re-jigger that back to a junior officer then.