Wasn't Mary coming out of a broken engagement when the series began?
what if kirk was single parent?
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^ I believe so, one of the reasons she moved to the big city, to make a fresh start.
If Kirk weren't divorced, but a single absentee father, I think this would cast him in a bad light. Yes, what he's doing is important, but it would look like he's not taking care of his primary responsibility, his son.
Which is why I suggested divorced.
If Kirk weren't divorced, but a single absentee father, I think this would cast him in a bad light. Yes, what he's doing is important, but it would look like he's not taking care of his primary responsibility, his son.
Which is why I suggested divorced.
What if they had the scenario that he was married but his family was back on earth?
Nah, that wouldn't have worked because he would have been a cheating husband whenever he was seducing the alien babe of the week. He seemed to do that quite a bit.
Nah, that wouldn't have worked because he would have been a cheating husband whenever he was seducing the alien babe of the week. He seemed to do that quite a bit.
Maybe that was the OP's point, to enforce some sort of Christian morality on the character. I don't see how Kirk being an absentee father would have improved the series in any way.
I assume it was a joke about being married and continuing to be a gigalo but outside of what Melakon says, I think the network execs and sensors wouldn't go for it at the time.
I do remember Trapper John on MASH being married and still messing around. May have been earlier examples but the early 70s and social acceptance had definitely become more lax.
TWOK took place about fifteen years after Season 2's Space Seed. ("There's a man out there I haven't seen in fifteen years who's trying to kill me").
David was already an adult in TWOK, apparently with a PhD, since he said "I'm Doctor Marcus!" when Kirk asked "Where's Doctor Marcus?"
I don't think David was born after the events of TOS.
Kor
David was already an adult in TWOK, apparently with a PhD, since he said "I'm Doctor Marcus!" when Kirk asked "Where's Doctor Marcus?"
I don't think David was born after the events of TOS.
Kor
Do we know that? He knew David existed before he met him as an adult. "I did what you wanted. I stayed away. Why didn't you tell him?"
You're right. I forgot about that line.
If you are interested, "The Autobiography of James T. Kirk" by David A. Goodman deals with the father/son theme, the absence and the guilt in a few very nice scenes, including one between Kirk and McCoy on board the Hotspur when David was still a toddler.
x1000.
Imagine every episode opening with idyllic scenes of Kirk and son taking a stroll on the beach, or adopting the moronic "space dune buggy" from Nemesis.while we hear loving, fatherly voice overs..or...
No.
Your "The Captaincy of Eddie's Father" can stay with DS9.
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