What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The Vulcan Nerve Pinch might have some IRL application / usefulness if done correctly to the right pressure points.

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Intriguing.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Thanks for clarifying. I'll have to watch it again soon.

Post here if you do. Be interested to hear if you have a turnaround!

 

[Nyotarules]

"Is that David?" implies he knows what the kid looked like, several years earlier, and was confirming he recognized him. The implication to me is that whenever Kirk was on Earth he would visit Carol and David, but only as "Mom's old friend". How Carol reacted to him being on Earth "permanently" between TOS and TMP, is a matter for debate. David would have been about 10.

I find Davids line, 'I'm proud to be your son' a bit strange, unless he means you're a good leader and I'm proud of that. David could not be proud of Kirk's paternal skills since he channelled his paternal skills on a large chunk of metal called Enterprise.
By STV Kirk forgot he had parents, a brother, nephew and a son with his 'people like us don't have family' line and 'I lost a brother once, but I got him back'.
Kirk would fill up a therapist's pension pot with his issues.

 

[Jayson1]

I find Davids line, 'I'm proud to be your son' a bit strange, unless he means you're a good leader and I'm proud of that. David could not be proud of Kirk's paternal skills since he channelled his paternal skills on a large chunk of metal called Enterprise.
By STV Kirk forgot he had parents, a brother, nephew and a son with his 'people like us don't have family' line and 'I lost a brother once, but I got him back'.
Kirk would fill up a therapist's pension pot with his issues.

He saw into Kirk's heart in how much he cared about Spock and forgave him for being a bad dad. He saw Kirk was more than this bad image of a man who he grew up thinking he was. That he actually did care about people and things other than just his career.

 

[Mudd]

Which, to be fair, is not the character seen in the show, who would have run down to engineering himself and not sat or his hands. Something changed. "Worn out."

Meyer definitely bent the character to his own dramatic and thematic ends. To his credit, he made such a popular movie that it revived interest in Trek and reshaped people's perceptions of the character. The downside was that the caretakers of the property discarded much of what had made it intriguing, because it didn't interest them or they didn't know how to approach it.