Why did Kirk tell Gaila "That's weird"?
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Because sometimes a young man doesn't know what to say when a young woman says "I love you" to him... especially when he is sleeping with her to get access to the computer system that controls the Kobayashi Maru simulation.
Well, Orions in Starfleet training would imply that, in this timeline, Kirk knows enough about Orion physiology to know sex with them is relatively safe. Can we same about when he bedded the green chick in ToS? He didn't know squat about their body structure. Assuming that coitus is achieved in a similar fashion as human capulation, how the hell did Kirk know she wouldn't lay her eggs in his nut sack? He could have had an Orion/human gestating between his testicles for 15-months for all he knew!
Just some of the random garbage that flits through my mind.
Just some of the random garbage that flits through my mind.
Yeah, I used to think Kirk said "that's weird" because he wouldn't believe Orion girls could ever love anyone, but obviously Gaila is a special case, her being in Starfleet and all that. She's obviously not the kind of slave girl we're used to seeing in Orion society. And she probably has to take meds to suppress her Orion pheromones as well.
Hmm, yes, perhaps he hit something weird and unexpected between her legs.
When he teased Uhura into telling her name, he said something like, "that's so weird, that was just the name I was going to pick".
I think he was about to do the same thing with Gaila, "that's so weird, that's just what I was going to say", but she cut him off before he got to the punch line. And then dear roomie walked in.
Roommatus interruptus...
I think he was about to do the same thing with Gaila, "that's so weird, that's just what I was going to say", but she cut him off before he got to the punch line. And then dear roomie walked in.
Roommatus interruptus...
When did that happen?
Its good to know you guys get out often...NOT!lol.
Anyways,jokes aside,when a man beds a girl for sport the lady involved typically equates the sex to be 'love';and you can't say 'I love you' to a chick you're just sexing without,ahem,risking a severe blowback when the girl divines that you didn't mean it.Black Holes don't compare to that kind of scorn.
Which is why Kirk tried to evade the desired answer.He only suceeded in falling off a cliff,although not a literal one in that case.
Anyways,jokes aside,when a man beds a girl for sport the lady involved typically equates the sex to be 'love';and you can't say 'I love you' to a chick you're just sexing without,ahem,risking a severe blowback when the girl divines that you didn't mean it.Black Holes don't compare to that kind of scorn.
Which is why Kirk tried to evade the desired answer.He only suceeded in falling off a cliff,although not a literal one in that case.
No one else has done something similar? I'm a woman, and I've obviously never been a cocky male Starfleet cadet bedding a beautiful green chick, but in my dating days, I was always nonplussed by declarations of love from someone I didn't expect to give it and for whom I was not ready to bestow the same.
Usually, it resulted in some variation of, "uh. Okay. Thanks."
And even with the man I eventually married (and love fiercely to this day), the reaction was:
"Oh."
*Pause*
....
"I have to go."
Some people just find it weird.
Usually, it resulted in some variation of, "uh. Okay. Thanks."
And even with the man I eventually married (and love fiercely to this day), the reaction was:
"Oh."
*Pause*
....
"I have to go."
Some people just find it weird.
I wonder, too; and I'm not seeing an answer here that rings a bell for me. I tend to agree that he's not listening to her, and it's something else.
I checked the novelization, and it's not in there either; it's a different conversation.
My other half thinks Kirk was going to say "That's so weird, I love me too" 
My other half thinks Kirk was going to say "That's so weird, I love me too"
I can so see Shatner saying that...
