Yes, I was listening. And the issue isn’t whether they want men or not, it’s how they go about it.
How would you?
Wasn’t an issue that the miners were, or would be soon, filthy, stinking rich?
If you’re re-watching these classic episodes, I highly recommend the Mission Log podcast. I always learn something and they always make me laugh. They’ve covered the Original Series and are currently in the fifth season of TNG.
Bars, church, friends of friends, cheap hookups using phone aps.
You know, the usual.
Were I a woman, it sure wouldn’t be by selling myself in a catalog like it was 1860 to some guy who has proven to be such a catch himself that he has to resort to catalogs to find a woman. And then to live on some backwater planet with a guy who can’t even clean his own pots, which has currently only 2 other people on it. I bet they don’t even get Amazon deliveries there.
I don’t think it would be possible to be that desperate! There’s got to be more opportunities than that.
Maybe they can buy some manners?
You have a remarkably optimistic view of humanity. 
Are you suggesting the filthy rich *need *manners? :dubious:
Ever notice how the *Enterprise *orbits a planet—always with one side (usually port) facing the surface? Maneuvering to maintain that attitude is a tremendous waste of energy! :mad:
Yes, especially in the so-called advanced 23rd century.
There’s also the danger involved. What if one or more of those men turns out to be abusive? On such an isolated planet, where do you get help?
And, personally, I couldn’t live without Amazon deliveries.
My fanwank is that a “standard orbit” is not an orbit at all. It’s just terminology for a powered hover over the area of the planet they are interested in. Archaic, but still used, like “dialing” a phone, or “videotaping” something.
That would explain why losing engine power (ala Court Martial) causes the ship to spiral in, rather than just continue orbiting indefinitely, like every natural satellite since time began.
Also it makes sense, because, although the transporter has a (what?) 40000 mile range, it can’t transport through thousands of mile of rock. When you need to beam up now, you can’t wait 30 minutes for the ship to come around.
And they do it port-side down because it isn’t just good enough to do good, you have to look good doing it! Bottom-down might be OK, but top down is just plain wrong.
And if Ruth “looks just the same” then …Jesus Kirk, into the older ladies back then were you???
16,000 mi., or roughly 30,000 km.
“Older”??? What’s with this “older”??? She’s still 19–20 years old, hasn’t aged a day! (Even if she had, she’d be—what, an old lady of 35? :dubious: I could live with that… :o )
I think something was wrong with Kirk’s brain. His horndog staus IS vastly overblown but…falling in love with that android so hard Spock thought he had to wipe it out?? I guess I can fanwank that as Flint managing to create a “woman his equal” meaning Kirk had no choice to fall (What? Has McCoy passed menopause??)
And then there’s Edith Keeler. Christ Jim, be a professional. Ok, I get it she’s an extraordinary woman. What we really need is a scene where Kirk tries rationalizing with Spock other alternatives. “We take her with us! We fake her death!”
The actress was 32. That’s what I went with!
Ha! I’ll believe it when I see it! 
You don’t watch Forensic Files, do you? Keep a jug of anti-freeze under the sink, and you’re all set to inherit the filthy-rich abuser’s fortune.
Cops? Ain’t no cops on that rock, and the body will have decomposed long before they get there. Hell, just whack the guy over the head and drag his body out into the next solar storm. Let the sand blast him clean!
Drones, laddie. Drones!
That old? :eek: She sure fooled me!
I took Mitchell’s comment to mean that he (and the lab tech) were playing Kirk, and he fell for it. That is a lot different from him fixing Kirk up with her - in that case the “I almost married her” comment makes no sense, since it would be a real relationship on either side.
Plus while he wasn’t a horndog yet, there were plenty of prior relationships mentioned - the woman he calls into being in “Shore Leave” and the prosecutor on “Court Martial” for two.
That’s the one. I think in Ellison’s original script there is a comment about it being a very significant romance, kind of once in a lifetime. And that was an important thing for the plot. But then every writer felt that they got to introduce a once in a lifetime romance also. (Well, not every …)
BTW, I’m through part 1 of the two part episode in DS9 season 3 where they go back to Earth in 2020 and also screw up the timeline. I don’t know if episode 2 is going to go where I think it will go, but this seems a bit of a copy of City on the Edge of Forever, and shows how their writing staff are no Harlan Ellisons. So far there is excessive coincidence, excessive fight scenes for no reason, and the give me a break moment of Dax getting rescued by Mr. Rich Guy. We’ll see if they pull it out, but I’m not hopeful.