Yes, I was talking about Gaila. Apart from the addition of Carol, Into Darkness didn't really do much for the women either. There were very few female admirals and none of them spoke. Chapel was a research scientist and could actually have contributed to the story in a meaningful way but they expressly wrote her off the ship early on. A Chance to expand and modernise her character thrown away. A shame as Majel died that year as well.
I know what you mean. Go for a guy in a rubber suit or go home.
Welcome to Star Trek, where the same characters will always meet and interact in the same place at around the same time despite wildly different circumstances. Spock's "currents of time" from COTEOF is the closest to an explanation in canon for it.
Made worse still by the way it was done. It's disgusting to have the protagonist sexually harass a woman under his command so badly that she has to transfer away... and have that be something the audience is supposed to laugh at.
The schoolboy humour when it comes to women can sometimes be fun (it was funny in Beyond when they inverted the trope and Uhura rescued herself - she would never have been such an active protagonist in TOS). Mostly it's about 25+ years out of date and even most boys over the age of 14 have more maturity than that nowadays.
With the Kelvin time change, at the time in ST09, Roger Korby hadn't travelled to Exo 3 yet, so, Chapel would have no reason to join Starfleet. Korby travelled to Exo 3 five years before WALGMO which puts that event around two or three year off in the future, assuming this event still occurs as it did in the prime timeline. Poor Ruk, forever tending the machinery.
She certainly had no reason to be a nurse. TOS implied that was a last minute decision to get a posting on the ship. Roddenberry suggested she was a brevet i.e. An acting ensign like Wesley Crusher. I liked that because it implied that people were not lining up for 5 year deep space exploration.
I put that on the Guardian. It knew when and where to pluck them from when the shape of time had been restored so getting Kirk and Spock close to where they needed to be in regards to McCoy seems plausible. And it did say it was more than just a machine so some independent initiative is not out of the question. Later, in TAS Yesteryear, it retconned into being able to send one to a specific time so this would be just a less accurate version of that.
In Ellison's scripts it was made clear that each time period had a focal point to which such travelers would be drawn, and that if Kirk & Spock were successful in restoring time's shape they would all be returned. It's never stated that the Guardian was actively plucking them back. It's also why it was never an option to bring Edith back with them, because she was the focal point and history would not resume its shape unless she died.
"Yesteryear" is a nice enough story but I dislike the way the Guardian was handled.
Yeah I think more accurate to say he didn't qualify at Starfleet medical. He probably did officer training after years in private practice. NuMcCoy was mid thirties. That feels about right to me.
Well, with respect to Ellison, that's metaphysical. And Earth-centric. And stupid. If I want to travel to 1930s Shanghai, I have to go through the 21st Street Mission because Keeler is a focal point? Dumb.
But inevitable, because why build a time-travel device if it can't send you to the When you want to go to? And return you when you're done?
I prefer my time travel a bit more like 12 Monkeys, Dark, and Tenet but that's just me. Time is happening everywhere all at once. It doesn't care about anyone or anything any more than anything else.
Of course it's metaphysical. What did you expect from Ellison? He was a no hard SF writer and, in fact, eventually bristled at being called a science fiction writer.
Yeah I guess Edith became the focal point AFTER McCoy went through since that was the only change from which major changes resulted.
