I still think it should have been called In Search Of… Spock.
Star Trek: The Weirdly Low Stakes That Ended Up Killing David, Destroying The Enterprise and Saving The Earth in the Next Movie
Sarek did not need to collect Spock’s body. He was terribly disappointed that Kirk was nit carrying Spock’s katra (which is more like sum total of memories rather than soul).
BUT, a Star Fleet medical officer should have been aware of katra transfers, just as much as any other point of Vulcan physiology.
(Enterprise established canonically that Vulcans are secretive assholes.)
Yeah but they know its in McCoy. So why go back and get Spocks body?
Wouldn’t that be kind of like watching porn on a work computer? They can monitor is and it’s usually frowned upon.
Some examples:
In one episode, Riker had a “wife,” Minuet.
Janeway got it on with that cool Irish dude.
Tuvak made it with a replica of his wife when Pon Farr came around.
Apparently happens more often than we think.
Because Nimoy changed his mind about killing the character off after WoK was in the can.
I, to quote Roger Ebert, HATED HATED this movie.
So, in TWoK, Kirk grows, learns the wisdom that even the cleverest of men cannot ultimately cheat death. It’s a necessary lesson in humility, and humanity. in movies (as opposed to series television in the day) characters should grow. They should actually learn from their experiences, This is a good thing.
So what is the ultimate lesson of
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That the cleverest of men can cheat death. That it is possible to be an arrogant smug bastard and make tactical mistakes and even kill your best friend, and so what? Someone will fix it for you.
The whole point of the scene with David at the end was iost, forever lost, like tears in the rain.
Speaking of, TSFS is like the special edition of Blade Runner. In BR, Deckard relearns how to be human, something he lost along the way, and it only took shooting a woman in the back and the self-sacrifice of a murdering replicant to find it.
And the the director’s cut comes along and says “oh really he’s a replicant, too. Aren’t we clever!” Well, no, because you undercut the whole point of the movie: to wit, replicants can be more human than actual humans.
I’m not sure that undercuts it; if you want to make a point about how human a replicant can be, and there’s a character who learns how to be human, wouldn’t him being a replicant mean that you now have one more example of just how human a replicant can be? And the opposite would mean that you, uh, don’t?
Doyleist
One would hope by the 22nd (or is it 23rd) Century we’d have gotten away from the primitive religion-driven notion that sex is not a normal happy thing for people to do.
Thats why the usual Trek “Well this is highly unusual, I had no idea it would be used for this” trope of Trek in the Barclay episode is so dumb…either everything goes because you’re so advanced or none of it goes because someone should have known a long time ago what it would be used for.
Since humans have used virtually every new step forward in technology for porn, you’d think they’d have seen that coming (sorry). Painting begot dirty pictures on the cave wall. Printing gave us filthy etchings. The telephone led to obscene calls “Mr. Watson - What are you wearing?”, VCRs took off when they made porn movies in that format, etc.
The first sexual use of the holodeck took place about 30 seconds after the person who invented it saw nobody was in the lab but him.
Also…sure seems weird that ‘ship councilor’ is a bridge level position.
“Why is my psychologist in command of the night shift?”
In addition to ships psychologist, she also seems to be a general advisor to the Captain, Head of HR, and…part of JAG/CSI??
That’s just a scientific application of the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline.
Honestly, if her powers worked as advertised, I’d find it pretty easy to go with that: advise the captain when the guy on the viewscreen is lying; and then, in between just being a competent officer with an interpersonal ace up your sleeve, sort of go around the ship asking folks, so, how are things going?
Finally, someone with a knowledge of the classics!
Wasn’t there a TNG novel set in Mirror Universe where her counterpart was basically a political commissar for the Terran Empire?
You mean Dark Mirror?
So…her Romulan character in Face of the Enemy?