And Dr Janet Wallace (The Deadly Years). She also keeps count to the nearest day the time since she’s seen Kirk (Six years, four months, and an odd number of days.). Kirk must be quite memorable, because Areel Shaw also keeps track: (Four years, seven months, and an odd number of days.)
Interestingly, Memory Alpha makes a case that Dr Wallace is the “blonde lab technician”.
Svenson - Have you never felt a love that comes to a man once in a lifetime?
Col. Hogan (deadpan) - Dozens of times.
Stay on the same side of the planet as the landing party with a geosynchronous orbit over the equator as the dishnetwork satellites use to stay in the same place with reference to the earth.
She wasn’t born a Ph.D. So she was working as a lab tech while going to grad school, or calling her a “lab tech” is just how Gary Mitchell described her - he saw her working in a lab and called her a tech, not knowing or caring that she was pursuing her doctorate at the time.
In retrospect, I genuinely appreciate how low-key the introduction of David Marcus was - he’s Kirk’s son, and there was some kind of unpleasant custody-fight decades earlier, possibly Kirk knew having a family would affect his career so he didn’t fight very hard, so he “did what [Carol] wanted” and stayed away, and has been nursing that resentment for some time, occasionally kvetching about it over drinks with McCoy, who is rather less than sympathetic. It’s a thoroughly realistic and somewhat icky situation that happens all the time.
Compare that to the TNG episode “Bloodlines”. Picard has a (dramatic sound effect)long lost son! Except it turns out he doesn’t and it’s never mentioned again.
Guhhhhh? Kirk in a custody fight he didn’t fight very hard??
My interp would be that Jirk (haha, that was an accident) KIRK…offered to do the right thing and at the least quit the Academy if not marry her. Carol said, “Don’t be a fool. You’d always be looking out the back window at the stars and you’d come to resent both of us for it.”
OR maybe she didn’t want her kid chasing after his father to the stars and getting killed (ooops)
Well, that wasn’t Kirk’s fault. He wasn’t anywhere near the place when the Klingons showed up, and the reason David was there was to study the thing he’d help create.
I think it was also a function of rapidly evolving conventions about what was acceptable to show on TV. For those who didn’t live thru the 60s, it might be hard to understand that there was a world if difference between 1966 and 1969.
-sigh- Fine. Ruth and David Scanlonson or whatever. The whole Khan thing was a direct follow-up to a TOS episode, so why not have the character who appeared as an illusion in “Shore Leave” show up for real? Shirley Bonne was (and is) still alive, though she hadn’t acted in a decade, they shoulda called her!
That’s a good idea. But, I have no problem with Carol Marcus not being mentioned in the series - after all, even non-horndogs have lots of relationships in college and Kirk might not have wanted to think about it. Plus, unlike some of them, it ended naturally, so no real longing for the past, for the one who got away.
No, no, no… the Venus Drug wasn’t the placebo. It was the capsule that Eve swallowed near the end of the episode that was the placebo. Kirk took the real drug away from Mudd and replaced it with a colored gelatin capsule, to prove to Eve that she didn’t need a drug to be attractive – just confidence in herself.
How self-confidence can style hair and add makeup, I don’t know. Maybe it was just supposed to represent how she looked through Ben Childress’s eyes.
Three issues with the episode. Couldn’t they beam down blankets and let them duplicate? IIRC, the scene with the wind redirecting the phaser fire seemed like a bit of a stretch. The rabid horned dog was hilarious.
As noted elsewhere, my favorite part is when Kirk and Spock blast a hole in a key transporter circuit and don’t bother to report it to their Chief Engineer. And when Scotty does find it, he acts as though it’s nothing out of the ordinary. (“What, saboteurs on board the Enterprise? Och, nae, canna be!”)
One set of the blankets would be evil. Probably have smallpox. And no way to tell which set was good.
What is the scene with the wind? I don’t remember it. I wonder if that scene was cut from syndication and I’ve never seen it, ever? I know what episode I’m watching next!
The great horny dog kept staring at its owner off camera. So pwescious!
