He probably smashed his finger in the turbolift door.
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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*WHOOOOSHHHH*-"OW! @#$%&*!?+"
I wonder if there's a *bleep* button at the conn to drown out expletives on the bridge.
I wonder if there's a *bleep* button at the conn to drown out expletives on the bridge.
Star Trek, in being ahead of embracing all beliefs and customs, had their first goth/emo crewmember in DeSalle.
Silent rebellion against the norm. Maybe it's a secret Section 31 sign.
I too watched "The Man Trap" last night (best part was when the kids freaked at the creature's true appearance, lol).
I noticed that Darnell (the first casualty) must have been wearing one of Spock's shirts, since you could clearly see where previously there had been two bands of stripes sewn on to the sleeves.
As mentioned above, also seems to be a lot of issues with keeping characters in focus in this episode.
I noticed that Darnell (the first casualty) must have been wearing one of Spock's shirts, since you could clearly see where previously there had been two bands of stripes sewn on to the sleeves.
As mentioned above, also seems to be a lot of issues with keeping characters in focus in this episode.
Is that in one of the books?
Whatever the episode had done in that scene, somebody would call it racist. If the creature had taken another approach, we'd be hearing "Oh, she has to be swept off her feet by a white man?"
As it stands, we're hearing, "Oh, she's only allowed to be with a black man?" You can't win.
What kills me is, the TOS-R fx made the mismatch far more glaring, by turning the circle bright yellow out of nowhere. I love some of the new fx, but the Hangar Deck and shuttlecraft fell short.
Sure you can win. Just allow for mixed coupling, just as it happens in really life. I only have a moderately extended family and yet it includes three mixed marriages. Excuse me if I find it shocking that a so called future, three centuries from now, is less enlightened than my own family in the present.
At real issue is how far one is comfortable pushing the envelope. TOS was produced in the mid 1960s--that is fifty years in the past and society in general didn't accept certain things nearly as easily as today.
If you take the time to read my very first post on the subject. I said something very similar and that makes me wonder why you've started this argument in the first place, to tell me my own words (more or less) but with a couple of hours delay.
So shoot the scene just as you would wish, and the producers would win with you. But someone else would say, "Why couldn't a black man be her idealized fantasy figure? Only a white man is good enough?"
And if they had her seduced by an Asian man, someone would demand to know why she shouldn't be with a white man. Isn't she good enough for a white man?
So again, I'm pretty sure any approach can be attacked, especially by those who are eager to raise racial issues and, for lack of a better term, stir things up. That's all I'm saying.
It's not my intention to start an argument with you. One can't always recall every single post in a long thread.
I regret ever wading into this mess. The original complaint about putting Uhura with a black man, that I was indirectly responding to, just raises all kinds of absurdities. Why complain if Uhura likes a black man? She's allowed.
I regret having dignified your snide remark with a answer, next time I'll know better.
Now it happens in real life, but in 1966 it was still illegal in some states and would not have been allowed on network TV. Star Trek helped improve society in a small way, but in order to do that it had to get on the air.
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