Character's Personal Hypocrisy

[Ashramsgrl]

This has been irking me lately. How do some characters get away with complete and utter bull and yet others get judged for actions that they are not responsible for.

Here's something to ponder.

Spock: Obviously a stickler for rules, regulations, and duty. We see him in the position of commander - instructor, and acting-captain. He is obviously in the position and has the experience and the credentials to judge based on performance at Starfleet Academy. Yet he does not get called out on the bullshit of having an affair with a subordinate, which has to violate some kind of rules, while bringing Jim up on a court marshal offense of cheating!!!

WTF!!!

Also, let's not ignore the fact that what he did by assigning Uhura to the Not-Enterprise, was so that HE wouldn't feel compromised. Not because she didn't have the skills to be on the Enterprise.

Bones: Let's see, what would you call poisoning your best friend so that he could sneak on board a ship that he under no circumstance was supposed to be on board.

I believe that Pike said that they would, "have words," when everything was sorted. What would those words have been? "Good job, commendations!" or "You are so fired, get the hell out of here!"

Yea, I totally call bullshit on the double standards.

 

[indranee]

I really didn't take Spock/Uhura as an established relationship. in fact, the way Quinto played it in the entire movie (especially in that first scene with Uhura in the shuttlebay in Starfleet HQ), it was pretty clear that his character was uncomfortable with the "hypocrisy" -- as you call it -- of the interaction.

I also don't see the relationship as "fully flowered". I think it was just getting started during the duration of this movie, as in the feelings were there, but hadn't quite been acknowledged before now.

 

[Lumen]

I don't think anyone knows what Bones did. No one really had the opportunity to ask, and after the crisis was over, no one would have remembered to.

And I don't think Starfleet has any rules against relationships.

 

[Ashramsgrl]

I don't think the relationship was fully flowered. (oh the imagery) But I do think that they were like um...contemplating third and home base. I think that they had been emotionally close for a while, and probably became physical a short time before the Vulcan distress call. That may explain why Spock knew how to kiss, but not to hug.

And I have been thinking about this way too much.

I just look back to that Court Marshal scene, and the look of smugness that both Spock and Uhura had, while no one knew at the time....ooooooooo

 

[Franklin]

I don't think anyone knows what Bones did. No one really had the opportunity to ask, and after the crisis was over, no one would have remembered to.

And I don't think Starfleet has any rules against relationships.

Yes. I think in the end Pike doesn't care a fig about how Kirk got onto the Enterprise. Essentially, McCoy "cheated" in order to invoke a Starfleet regulation and get Kirk aboard the Enterprise. There was a lot of cheating going on in this movie.

As far as Starfleet not having regulations against relationships goes, as I posted in another thread, I hope they have some kind of policy, however liberal, just to protect Uhura (and anyone else in a similar situation, for that matter). What Spock did (well, wanted to do) was indefensible.