What about the Gorn episode? Half that episode was taken from the Frederic Brown short story.
Was Brown happier about that because they acknowledged it officially?
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Was Brown happier about that because they acknowledged it officially?
They paid him and he got screen credit. Different animal entirely.
Just no. Minis were not designed for males, so having a male wear one on a late 60s show would appear to be a forced gag.
Its not unusual for some women--no matter how strong--will do that in certain tense or threatening situations.
Spock is half human, and by season three, he was more comfortable with his human side than ever before. To that end, his reacting to various women is not out of character. In fact, as a character, he would have become stale if acting in the vein of season one Spock.
Some men, too. But it's still playing to stereotypes about women.
It’s not unusual for men either.
"And the Miri Shall Lead"? No thanks.
It would be better than that. Heck, there's an idea for a novel (excise Miri and co. and make it another planet of Human kids, another way of controlling them)
I think if I was in charge of season one of Star Trek I would have kept Yeoman rand for at least the first full season! That's if she was okay with staying despite the horrors of what she went through in that 'executive's' office?
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There's a few memos which both clarify and confuse the Grace Lee situation. In the first they discuss dropping her because her contract is relatively expensive and they found they weren't using the character much. Then there's a later memo when Gene R. suggests bringing her back now and then as a guest and with a more flattering hairstyle. Obviously the latter never happened, but that there was discussion about bringing her back suggests a) Gene didn't necessarily think she wouldn't want to, and b) the idea suggests there was no concern over drug or alcohol problems which have been alluded to over the years. I wish I'd seen these memos before Grace died. I would have liked to have heard what she thought about them.
Thanks for that, Maurice, it was very enlightening!
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I'd have kept Rand and given her & Uhura larger roles on the show, but -- most importantly -- I would've rewritten Bones, so that he wasn't a big, stinkin' drunk.
Apart from the bottle of Saurian brandy in his locker when did we ever really see Bones drunk? He liked the odd tipple as seen in Requiem for Methuselah and Amok Time but that's about it!
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^^^Yeah, I think the poster must be conflating Bones and Scotty.
Spock's Brain would stay in his head
No Turnabout intruder
Female captains would be a norm
More alien crew and flag officers
No Turnabout intruder
Female captains would be a norm
More alien crew and flag officers
I think the idea of Rand coming back with a new hairdo would have been great. She looked a lot better in the promo photos for Star Trek.However stop the 'romance' between her and Kirk. Chapel's crush was so annoying after 3 seasons. And I felt sorry for Troi and Crusher with their unrequited crushes and began to resent Riker and Picard(to a limited extent) for leading them on. I like the idea of Rand being a sort of low key Miss Moneypenny and being good friends with Spock with no romantic interest,
Scotty was no raging drunk either. That whole thing goes back to two episodes, "By Any Other Name" from the second season, and "Is There In Truth No Beauty" from the third. BAON has the Scotty drinking the Kelvan under the table with his stash hidden in his quarters, and ITITNB has the immortal line "How does it mix with scotch? I'll let you know."
Both were done as a joke, and yet casual fans ran with it as though it was in every episode. Even the whole plot of "Wolf In The Fold" revolves around Scotty not acting like himself when he seems drunk after the first two victims are killed, yet some will cite it as proof of Scotty being a drunk. He's really only depicted as such in the MAD Magazine parodies.
Is There In Truth No Beauty has Scotty offering one of the Enterprise designers a turn at the engineering control, with a bottle of scotch if he can handle them.
The Tholian Web is the one where Scotty intends to mix scotch with a deadly Klingon nerve agent to see what the effects would be.
In the 1960's there was a expectation that people would drink alcohol on a daily basis, and it was unusual if someone didn't. Scotty wasn't a lush by the standards of the day, we never saw him impaired on the job, he was just average. Kirk and McCoy were drinking buddies. Right after Kirk found out he was heading into a courts martial, he naturally went to a bar.
My grandfather told me that in the 60's people would openly drink on the job, drink heavily at lunch, and as long as you got your job done nothing would be said.
He worked in a machine shop.
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A little less overt sexism. The era was different, but "Wolf in the Fold" - an otherwise decent story - contrives very badly a possible motive for Scotty killing all the women. Spock has a real humdinger of a line as well...
"The Changeling" is another example of what does amount to verbal generalized misogyny in how all women are described as being, but it's the NOMAD doing the dirty work for once... maybe NOMAD is a member of NO MA'AM?
And Spock also gets some patriarchy in "Amok Time". Implied indentured servitude as well?
Then again, that was well before the 1980s and "latch-key kids" since stay at-home dads were not well-received either...
"The Changeling" is another example of what does amount to verbal generalized misogyny in how all women are described as being, but it's the NOMAD doing the dirty work for once... maybe NOMAD is a member of NO MA'AM?
And Spock also gets some patriarchy in "Amok Time". Implied indentured servitude as well?
Then again, that was well before the 1980s and "latch-key kids" since stay at-home dads were not well-received either...
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