Which books suggest an identity for the woman Gary Mitchell set Kirk up with? Asking for this entry: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Unnamed_individuals#Blonde_lab_technician
The "blonde lab technician"
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I think that was one of the My Brother's Keepers novels. The first one IIRC.
I think Peter David's "Starfleet Academy" annual of DC's Trek comic identified Carol Marcus as the one, though the idea had certainly been around in fandom ever since TWOK came out.
The one thing that I find odd is that given Kirk's surprise when Mitchell told Kirk about his meddling behind the scenes:
is that Kirk doesn't bring something like that up the next time he sees her. "Gary Mitchell told me the whole thing was a set-up. I can't believe you did that!" or some such comment.
is that Kirk doesn't bring something like that up the next time he sees her. "Gary Mitchell told me the whole thing was a set-up. I can't believe you did that!" or some such comment.
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Janet Wallace is another popular candidate, I think (not surprising, since she was in early drafts of TWOK before she was changed to Carol). Probably Ruth too, since she's someone Kirk apparently knew at the Academy and cared for deeply. Kirk had a lot of blonde old flames. I guess he had a type.
She didn't have to be in on it.
Gary did say he "outlined her whole campaign for her", but that could mean anything. Such as, Gary (who, it should be noted, was already starting to mutate) just putting up a load of B.S. for his friend's benefit.
And even if it's legit: Perhaps Carol (or whoever it was) was indeed interested in Kirk but didn't know how to approach him and so asked Gary for advice. "You're his friend, what does he like?" and that type of thing. She doesn't have to be an active conspirator, so to speak.
Besides, Kirk is quick enough on the uptake that if he suspected that Carol/whoever wasn't genuinely into him, I think he would have noticed. Kirk's not the seducer-about-town that everyone thinks he is. If the whole thing was a setup, Kirk would be genuinely hurt by it.
He's exaggerating, then - she approached him innocently enough and he saw a golden opportunity.
Okay, so what about the woman who caused Scotty's accident (mentioned briefly in "Wolf in the Fold")
The whole "marooned on a planet by deranged tyrant" thing might have had something to do with that, priorities and what not...
I think that's best forgotten. That's one of the most misogynistic plot beats in all of TOS. Not only does Scotty blame all women for an accident caused by one woman (substitute "black person" or "Jew" for "woman" and it's obvious how horrible that is), but Kirk and McCoy's idea of getting him to "like" women again is not to sit him down and help him relate to them as people and individuals, but to take him to a nightclub where he can ogle women as sex objects. So their concern isn't that he's become prejudiced against half of civilization, merely that he's being insufficiently heterosexual.
Not to mention that it's extremely difficult to read Spock's "women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species" line as anything other than overt misogyny.
Easy: Spock was actually speaking in a strange and not often used Vulcan dialect that coincidentally sounded like a very misogynistic English sentence. He actually said: "Captain, the sensors are are working properly and the crew morale is high."
You didn't see a whole lot of women working in Enterprise's engineering section, aside from that. That's not to say it couldn't have happened elsewhere.
@Christopher supposedly they want him to have a "happy" memory of time spent with a woman to offset the unhappy one. What, so all of his previous interactions with women were awful or not memorable? (I think he was referring to what Scott would do with Kara when the two left McCoy and Kirk's company, not what they had just done prior to the couple departing) Keep in mind they're pickled when they say/do this, so they're not acting like themselves.
McCoy was using it as fake justification for having a "good" time - I don't think he was being serious when he said Scott might now resent all women - if Scott did, he'd be better off seeing a neurologist or a therapist, not going to a bar, as that would not be normal behavior for him. (The ship is a she - does he now hate the Enterprise, too?)
And many times, characters in other serieses are portrayed as (unfairly) blaming all (alien species name)s for something one (alien species name) or a group of (alien species name)s did to him/her. It's not right for them to do so, but they do.
Back on topic, nothing has been said of this incident in Treklit or of the woman who caused it?
@Christopher supposedly they want him to have a "happy" memory of time spent with a woman to offset the unhappy one. What, so all of his previous interactions with women were awful or not memorable? (I think he was referring to what Scott would do with Kara when the two left McCoy and Kirk's company, not what they had just done prior to the couple departing) Keep in mind they're pickled when they say/do this, so they're not acting like themselves.
McCoy was using it as fake justification for having a "good" time - I don't think he was being serious when he said Scott might now resent all women - if Scott did, he'd be better off seeing a neurologist or a therapist, not going to a bar, as that would not be normal behavior for him. (The ship is a she - does he now hate the Enterprise, too?)
And many times, characters in other serieses are portrayed as (unfairly) blaming all (alien species name)s for something one (alien species name) or a group of (alien species name)s did to him/her. It's not right for them to do so, but they do.
Back on topic, nothing has been said of this incident in Treklit or of the woman who caused it?
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When I was first putting together my TOS timeline years ago, I noticed that Scotty's accident alluded to in "Wolf in the Fold" happened very close to Scotty getting jilted by Carolyn Palamas in "Who Mourns For Adonais?" as well as his unpleasant encounter with his old love Glynnis Campbell in DC Comics' Star Trek Annual #3 ("You'll have to forgive Mr. Scott. He hasn't been quite right for a few weeks, since he was hit by a lightning bolt from a Greek god").
As I wrote there, when you consider all of those events together, it seems obvious that Scotty was having a very bad year where women were concerned.
As I wrote there, when you consider all of those events together, it seems obvious that Scotty was having a very bad year where women were concerned.
That just wasn't his star year. 
Not only was it his bad year, but Scotty seemed to be falling for women who were half his age. Talk about 'robbing the cradle'!
Hmm. Just like T'Pring's lover's name is undoubtedly Vulcan for "Stanley."
