I’ve got to hand it to you, you must be in great demand. Emergency rooms around the nation must love to have your unique skill help them determine when someone’s dead. I mean, you can just LOOK at them, no pulse taking, no heart monitor, no brain-wave electrodes. Just one look, and you can get the death cert. out.
The fact that you won’t even admit that it’s not possible to tell the difference between “dead” and “unconscious” in a situation like that tells me that further discussion is probably pointless. :rolleyes:
But Kirk’s response of not killing, even when he had the right to do so, was seen to be the most civilized. That he was not an inferior lifeform. That would suggest that they would prefer not to kill, too, and Kirk had just given them an excuse. “If these guys won’t kill, then why should we?” they could ask themselves.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Gorn Captain was killed. He seemed way too gung ho on the killing (not even doing it reluctantly), suggesting they kill more easily in his society. The Klingons would kill him.
We’re still talking about Sylvia and Korob, right? There wasn’t much left of their corpses to collect. They quickly died and their corpses self-combusted, reducing them to little piles of ash and wisps of smoke. I guess that planet wasn’t their most preferred environment.
