# James T. Kirk vs. Emma Peel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660 "2004-11-19T14:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/21 "2004-11-21T04:41:41Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Bah. Mrs. Peel rescued Steed just as often as he rescued her. That is not the issue, Sir. The issue is whether a woman who _sometimes_ must be rescued from the clutches of mediocre British Villians by a man who wears galoshes can take Kirk in a fight. Good gad, Sir, these people invented a language they cannot speak! Their spelling is atrocious, almost as bad as mine, they boil all their food, including bread. They eat blood sausage, toad-in-the-hole and some noxious condiment called maramite, moramite or corbamite. See the above statement concerning spelling. Who needs galoshes when one has a transporter? I rest my case. ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/22 "2004-11-21T04:51:54Z")
Who needs a Eugenics War? These two could breed their own master race without resorting to augmentation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/23 "2004-11-21T04:55:30Z")
Kahn Noonian Singh, the love child of James T. Kirk and Emma Peel? The mind boggles… ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/24 "2004-11-21T16:12:56Z")
By the way, I nominate “Ripped Shirt Kirk” as the best three word character defining title in a long time. Beautiful; I salute the creator. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/25 "2004-11-21T16:26:56Z")
Maybe it’s some sort of magical power thing. Ripped shirt Kirk is stronger. Ripped shirt Banner/Hulk is stronger. Ripped shirt Hulk Hogan is stronger. It must be the magic shirt. To bad nobody ever got to see a ripped shirt Emma Peel. If I ever get in a fight, I’ll just rip my shirt for the power boost. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/26 "2004-11-21T19:03:45Z")
Yeah, but a prepared, ripped shirt Batman would be truely terrifying. More so if he also had a 1920’s style “Death Ray.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/27 "2004-11-21T19:24:07Z")
There’s a “set phasers” joke here, but I can’t quite put it together. Set phasers to “Cybernaut”. Set phasers to “New Avengers in Canada”. Set phasers to “Right Hand Drive”. Set phasers to “Purdey”. Set phasers to “Toad in the Hole”. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/28 "2004-11-21T22:25:09Z")
“Get a load of her, Bones! Set phasers on ‘stunning’!” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/29 "2004-11-21T23:54:59Z")
Phasers on “bone!” Dr. McCoy: Would you like a Viagra? Kirk: No, hold my tribble toupee, I’m going in, warp factor “hump.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/30 "2004-11-22T02:49:19Z")
I was going to go with Kirk, but then I realized… Mrs. Peel is an Earthling human, is she not? Kirk doesn’t stand a chance against an Earthling human woman. Alien babe? Sure. Gynoid? Absolutely. But human? Nah. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660/31 "2004-11-22T04:59:44Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Maybe it’s some sort of magical power thing. Ripped shirt Kirk is stronger. Ripped shirt Banner/Hulk is stronger. Ripped shirt Hulk Hogan is stronger. It must be the magic shirt. And everyone knows “Doc Savage Needs A New Shirt!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-t-kirk-vs-emma-peel/275660.md?page=1)