tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post111872551965258624..comments2024-03-26T15:22:25.095-06:00Comments on The Earliad: You Seem Wise, for a WomanEarl J. Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07963936256606285358noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-17347199954100247422013-04-09T23:57:20.875-06:002013-04-09T23:57:20.875-06:00Did you check?Did you check?AllanXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07985429686454058619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1120380554007191362005-07-03T02:49:00.000-06:002005-07-03T02:49:00.000-06:00Well, now I'm going to have to go and check.Well, now I'm going to have to go and check.Earl J. Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07963936256606285358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1120333009881844692005-07-02T13:36:00.000-06:002005-07-02T13:36:00.000-06:00Uh, no Earl, that scene is most definitely in the ...Uh, no Earl, that scene is most definitely in the episode. At the 28 minute mark, as a matter of fact. Go check.<BR/><BR/>I did enjoy your analysis, btw, even if you missed the obvious intentional homoerotic overtones.AllanXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07985429686454058619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1119359641526950632005-06-21T07:14:00.000-06:002005-06-21T07:14:00.000-06:00You and your science fiction. Oh, sure, it looks ...You and your science fiction. Oh, sure, it looks like it's all about the flashy lights and the shooting lasers, but they always <I>try</I> to stick a lesson or two about social justice in there. That's like fortifying Coco Puffs with vitamin C. I feel so used.Liam J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05670587605642193711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1119222127818993092005-06-19T17:02:00.000-06:002005-06-19T17:02:00.000-06:00I'm pretty sure that scene wound up on the cutting...I'm pretty sure that scene wound up on the cutting room, floor, Allan. Too bad! <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment, Susan. King's comment that "this is not a black role, this is not a female role" was very insightful, and must have resonated through the years, for later Trek series often tested actors of different races and cultures for different roles; the captain of Deep Space Nine, for example for which they tested black and white actors, and Voyager, for which they tested men and women (although in that case, they were hoping to try a female captain)>Earl J. Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07963936256606285358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1119206860074734242005-06-19T12:47:00.000-06:002005-06-19T12:47:00.000-06:00Apollo takes a seat in the temple. "You will learn...Apollo takes a seat in the temple. "You will learn discipline. You will learn..." Cut to Chekov, his eyes dropping from Apollo's face to...to what? Apollo's voice trails off as his eyes lower, following Chekov's gaze. He realizes the young navigator is staring directly at his exposed crotch. Mortified, the god quickly vanishes. (28m)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1118806944281026412005-06-14T21:42:00.000-06:002005-06-14T21:42:00.000-06:00Thanks for the feedback, Leslie! In truth, I've al...Thanks for the feedback, Leslie! In truth, I've always been rather forgiving of Kirk's amorous tendencies for the very reason you offer: I tend to think that sexual attitudes would be much more relaxed in the future. (It certainly seems that way if you read Gene Roddenberry's novelization of the first Star Trek movie - perhaps I'll explore that subject someday.) <BR/><BR/>As for Kirk's "We're human," line, it does come off as a rebuke in the episode, so you could have a point - though my own subjective (and perhaps wishful) interpretation is that Kirk is truly experiencing a moment of genuine egalitarian impulse.Earl J. Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07963936256606285358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077773.post-1118774598567563932005-06-14T12:43:00.000-06:002005-06-14T12:43:00.000-06:00Hi Earl! Great close reading of the episode -- I d...Hi Earl! Great close reading of the episode -- I don't think I've ever seen this one (or it's lost in the dust of my adolescent mind). I wonder about Kirk's sexual behaviour. Although he's given to us through the trope of ladies' man, a cultural shorthand that makes understanding him easy for contemporary audiences, perhaps his free sexuality indicates more about the way the writers imagined sexual relationships in the twenty-third century.<BR/><BR/>That said, a feminist could read the call for balance in the exhortation "We're human" as an indictment of the growing feminist cause in the 60s. Although we might like to believe that enlightenment on one front leads to overall enlightenment, I don't think this is necessarily true (see the testimony -- can I really use that term in this context? ugh -- of many women members of the anti-Vietnam movement, the civil rights movement, the Beat generation, the punk underground, etc., etc.).<BR/><BR/>Do more of this! I really enjoyed this essay.<BR/><BR/>LLesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14831032895989556909noreply@blogger.com