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Top 5 TOS Characters You'd Just Love to Biotchslap!

Another vote for McGivers. What Khan saw in her I'll never know. She was hardly a "superior woman".

Oh but that red hair, healthy bosom, and fine child-bearing hips! Yeah, I think he saw fertile ground for building a new dynasty. :drool:

And a whiny, indecisive, flip-flopping personality with no real sense of her own self whatsoever to go with it.

Superiority is more than fecundity.
 
Another vote for McGivers. What Khan saw in her I'll never know. She was hardly a "superior woman".

Oh but that red hair, healthy bosom, and fine child-bearing hips! Yeah, I think he saw fertile ground for building a new dynasty. :drool:

And a whiny, indecisive, flip-flopping personality with no real sense of her own self whatsoever to go with it.

Superiority is more than fecundity.

She is hardly any of those things. She is not whiny, she just longs for a time when men exhibited masculine qualities instead of the androgynous mind-frame that permeates her century. She hardly flip-flops, she makes a conscious decision to join Khan (he does give her the choice to leave and she chooses to stay); later, when she sees that Khan seems bent on destroying the crew when he cannot get their cooperation, she reasons that it is time to take matters into her own hands and frees Kirk...but on one condition, that Kirk not kill Khan. She makes deals and is a practitioner of Realpolitik. She realizes that she and Khan cannot succeed without Kirk's help and so she takes advantage of her upper hand and bargains (quite successfully) with Kirk.

She has a very real sense of her own self. In fact, her sense of herself as an individual gets her in hot water when the landing party arrives on Khan's ship and she fails to fall into line and answer Kirk's questions directly and quickly enough (leading her to draw a reprimand later in Sick Bay). She is not cut out to be a follower, but a leader in her own right.

She is very brave, she defies Khan (who after all is a combination of Hitler, Genghis Khan, Napolean, and then some; not to mention the fact that he is strong enough to toss grown men around like sock puppets), that is no small order. Further, she has the balls to take on Kirk and potentially the full weight of StarFleet's disciplinary process.

Khan is well to characterize her as superior. She can have my babies any day!
 
I would say

1.any one of the platoians
2.spock(he needs it from time to time)
3.Elaan of Troyius
4.khan (what anyone sees in him is WAY far beyond me)
5.Kirk(some times when he makes his move the women should just slap him and what THEY see in him is once again beyond me)
 
Marla McGivers is not superior. She is a traitor, that is all she is. A traitor to the Enterprise crew. Her obligations are to THEM, not to Khan.
 
1) Marla McGivers; I know the arguments for her, but she came across as weak, vacillating and extremely disloyal. No matter what she is "yearning" for personally, that is no excuse to betray the service she swore an oath to, especially with lives on the line when it comes to everyone performing their duties. If she wanted to go with Kahn, she should have resigned her commission and spoken to Kirk BEFORE Kahn pulled his attempted take over.

2) Nilz Baris: because he is a jerk. And he deserves it.

3) Some of the writers for the TOS series: the ones who wrote the crappiest episodes, like "Spock's brain" and such.
 
Come, come now everyone,... we all have are personal favorites, I am sure, but who can deny this is the NUMBER ONE TREK SHREW OF ALL-TIME:
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WHAP !!!!!!!
 
1. Galt, "The Gamesters of Triskellion"
2. Rojan, "By Any Other Name"
3. Ferris, "The Galileo Seven"
4. The Keeper. "The Menagerie"
5. Nilz Baris, "The Trouble With Tribbles"

My estimation of "The Gamesters of Triskellion" would have improved conisderably if the writers had seen fit to somehow give this Galt fucker the gruesome demise he so richly merited. Come on Trek writers, you kill off admirable, loyal security guards who die in the line of duty in scores. And I have issues with Rojan because I once had a nightmare as a child in which an orange-jumpsuited Warren Stevens came into my bedroom and turned me into a stryrafoam block.

Alternate choice: T'Pau from "Amok Time".
 
I'm not sure. My only memory of the dream is Rojan standing in the door of my bedroom.
 
As an adult, I realize that Warren Stevens is very likely a kind and gentle human being, as well as being an actor who has a resume anyone would be proud of.
 
Stevens certainly doesn't seem to remember his own role as Rojan all that well. When, during a series of retrospective interviews looking back on the classic sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet", an interviewer asked Stevens if it bothered him that Star Trek borrowed so many conventions from "Forbidden Planet". Stevens' immediate response was "What's Star Trek?"
 
[Wolf In The Fold] Mr. Hengist
[Turnabout Intruder] Janice Lester. No body and I do mean NO BODY can be Captain Kirk no matter how much they want to or try to be.
[The Empath] The Vyans
[Court Martial] That Commodore...whatever his name was...for not believing Kirk.
[Mudd's Women and I, Mudd] Harry Mudd. Just because I find the thought of slapping him amusing. :lol:
 
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Mudd...it's always been Mudd. He's a self-centered, egotistical male chauvenist pig. I can't even watch the episodes with him in it. He makes me sick.
 
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MUDD:
Whaaaahhhtt?!?!?!,... ME!!!!,... Harry Mudd !?!,.. Oh, I say!!!,.. I must protest this wholly ungrounded - and if I may add, rather harsh - persecution of my gentle and fine character,... ME!?!,... 'Harmless Harry',... AND to suggest,.. I mean the notion,... that physical violence should be carried out against,.. ME!?!,.. and for 'SPORT" no less?!?!,... and these,... these 'Charges',... well, it's,.. it's utterly unfathomable!!!!,..... Now,... what you want is real Cad,.. a real scoundrel,... a true menace to galactic well-being,.. like uh,... uh,.. like,.. (snaps fingers),.. like CYRANO JONES!!!,.. that's the ticket!!,.. CYRANO JONES,... That's your boy, right there!,... obviously their has been a grave mistake in identities,... understandable,.. but no doubt, THAT IS YOUR MAN,.... looks like he might rather fancy a good 'Biotch slapping',... IF,.. I read him right,.... a wholly understandable error in identification, I AM SURE!
 
Marla McGivers is not superior. She is a traitor, that is all she is. A traitor to the Enterprise crew. Her obligations are to THEM, not to Khan.

Hit the nail on the head, against this statement, nothing else matters.

In a show that follows military personnel on a military vessel, the ones who briskfully abandon their posts or disobey orders should be thoroughly and soundly, slapped about.

And I can understand Ambassador Fox, he was following his orders and mandates, although he was a little ignorant of the warnings from Scott and McCoy. He later admits to Spock that diplomacy has to take a back seat in this circumstance.
 
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