Trek Things That Went Over Your Head
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I guess I'm stupid but I don't get any of these references. Could someone please explain?"Fair maiden" and "Sorry, neither" went over my head at first, but i was only 9 then.
Apparently it went over the NBC censors' heads, too.
Here's something more subtle: In The Trouble with Tribbles, when Spock says "He heard you, he simply could not believe his ears," Kirk gives him a pained look. Took me a couple viewings before I got what Kirk was thinking.
No, it was World War II. Roddenberry was an Army Air Corps pilot in Southern Asia and the Pacific, enlisting in 1941.Was it WWII? For whatever reason, I recall that story as being Korean-war based.
I guess I'm stupid but I don't get any of these references. Could someone please explain?"Fair maiden" and "Sorry, neither" went over my head at first, but i was only 9 then.
Apparently it went over the NBC censors' heads, too.
Here's something more subtle: In The Trouble with Tribbles, when Spock says "He heard you, he simply could not believe his ears," Kirk gives him a pained look. Took me a couple viewings before I got what Kirk was thinking.
Well Uhura is not "fair" in the sense of being light-skinned. And apparently not a "maiden" in the sense of being virginal. The humor comes from the way she takes both literally and it takes a moment to process that (and of course because she's not married, gasp, and this is TV in the 60s!)
Kirk's pained expression was him thinking, "Oh you stupid Vulcan, why do you have to give me the perfect straight line but I can't say I CAN'T BELIEVE YOUR EARS EITHER! because it wouldn't be professional, particularly in front of this jerk we're both talking to."
Have you seen the relevant 3-episode arc from Enterprise (Borderland, Cold Station 12, The Augments)? That might explain things a bit:
Arik Soong, Dr. Soong's great-grandfather, was involved with the raising and training of Augments, similar to Khan.
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