Yeah, we didn’t see anything explicit, but the implications of a mob, presumably the entire community, in a no-holds-barred riot can send your imagination to some extreme places.
Not to mention the heavily-implied rape of Reger's daughter, that was just glossed over by the inhabitants.
And here I was thinking I was the only one who read that book.
Reminds me of a line from Heinlein's Space Cadet. The protagonist and crew discover a ship that ended up with a dead crew due to a micro meteor piercing the inner hull as a space walker was coming in the outer door. The captain says "Lieutenant, may have to note to Command to not have the whole ship's company gathered around during space suit operations."
Lieutenant: "Yes, sir. Might be awkward to with a small compliment."
Captain: "It's awkward to loose your breath too."
Yeah, chills.
Nope. I read it as well... back around 1976 or thereabouts. I wasn't into science fiction until after getting hooked on Star Trek in November 1975, and immediately searched out every science fiction book and Asimov essay collection my school library had (I was 12 at the time).
Space Cadet is either the first or second Heinlein book I read (can't recall if I read it before or after
Citizen of the Galaxy).
Kirk the Rapist; that was undiluted human impulse and nothing else.
And Spock, who treated it as something to joke about.
In “Yesteryear” a young Spock, a child, has to decide about putting his beloved pet to sleep to ease its suffering.
This is Saturday morning kiddie fare?
Did you never see "Old Yeller"? Or any other family movie where the dog dies?
There's a Canadian comic strip called
For Better Or For Worse. The strip followed the lives of the Patterson family for years, until the artist realized how many years they'd had their dog, Farley, and he would now be old (they'd had him since he was a very young puppy). So she devised a storyline in which Farley would die while saving the youngest child from drowning.
Farley was probably the most-loved character in that strip up to that point, and his death caused an outpouring of grief among the readers. It was as if we'd lost our own pet. I cried for Farley almost as much as for some of my own pets who'd died. I can't even type this without tearing up, and this storyline happened
decades ago.
This strip is considered an all-ages family comic. So young Spock having to make this decision about his sehlat is emotional, it's traumatic, and it's a normal part of growing up for anyone who has ever had a pet who either gets sick or is suffering from illness, an accident, or an attack and can't be saved.
Well, they returned Sam from the disappeared/dead, so I'm sure they cured the poor lady as well.
Sam just disappeared. The woman would have died.
Then when James Daly claimed he was Brahms and DaVinci and all those other clowns, I wondered why Mr. Multiple Celebrity couldn't buy himself a real woman or raise a human ward.
I tend to think of "Requiem for Methuselah" as an accidental prequel to the
Highlander TV series. Years ago I ran across a reference to some fanfic stories in which Richie didn't die, but rather survived into at least the 23rd century and joined Starfleet. The stories didn't mention where and how he hid his sword.
The bit where McCoy says that Flint is dying because he left Earth makes me wonder if the type of immortality granted to the Highlander characters would indeed fail if they left Earth. That point was never explored in either the main series or in the spinoff series.
Flint didn't "buy" a woman or raise a human ward, because part of immortality (a point hammered home time and again in both Highlander TV series) is the pain and grief of watching mortal loved ones age and die, or dying young of illness, accident, or murder. The Immortals in
Highlander can't even have children to ease this grief, because the tradeoff for immortality is that they're unable to father or bear children. So for those who want to be with a life partner, most would seek out another Immortal so they wouldn't have to experience this grief, or have to hide their own nature (Immortals don't physically age; they remain at the age they were when they had their first death - a problem for those who die as children, especially, as they can never grow up to become adults).
