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cimoreneunfortunately, this episode presupposes that dna tests don't exist, which creates a fairly large plot hole for the ordinary spackler. other people might find it more comfortable to simply ignore. but i kind of like it, anyway. the themes of the episode are echoed in shakespeare! and the Girl of the Week is very, very swedish. her facial structure is a lot like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wax_jism's, but she lacks the button nose and is very blond.
there's a spock/mccoy friendship scene that had me squeeing all the way through, too, where spock comes to the doctor for advice. but again i finger bad writing, because while he's deliberately dense mccoy isn't really THAT thick.
in case you're curious,
and now, if you haven't seen the episode, but you're going to, the last couple are spoilers, but they're quite cool. this is one of the few episodes where "spoiler" has meaning, but nonetheless it does. when i figured out the end i had a little "oh cool" moment. i don't want to ruin that for anyone. so, there's
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okay, so, a production of hamlet is underway at the climax, and the Girl of the Week completely cracks, goes nuts... while dressed as ophelia. so here's ophelia brandishing a phaser.
this episode also sort of mirrors the plot of "the menagerie", which i consider pivotal from a k/s timeline standpoint. because of his personal suspicion that an actor is actually the vanished-and-presumed-dead governor of the colony where kirk lived when he was about ten--a governor who earned the epithet "the butcher" for declaring martial law in a food shortage and putting half the colonists to death--he arranges to have the actors aboard to investigate for himself. he diverts the enterprise from her assigned course, refusing to discuss his actions and becoming very brusque on the occasions when spock tries to question him, until a confrontation where he actually yells.
(in "the menagerie" [1x16][coming soon!], spock hijacks the whole enterprise and picks up the former captain, whom he also served under, to give him a ride back to a planet they visited once before, subjecting himself [and kirk, who as his commanding officer is also responsible] to a court martial. kirk is very disturbed on that occasion--in my interpretation, principally because spock doesn't confide in him at all.)
wax_jism's, but she lacks the button nose and is very blond. there's a spock/mccoy friendship scene that had me squeeing all the way through, too, where spock comes to the doctor for advice. but again i finger bad writing, because while he's deliberately dense mccoy isn't really THAT thick.
in case you're curious,
and now, if you haven't seen the episode, but you're going to, the last couple are spoilers, but they're quite cool. this is one of the few episodes where "spoiler" has meaning, but nonetheless it does. when i figured out the end i had a little "oh cool" moment. i don't want to ruin that for anyone. so, there's
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okay, so, a production of hamlet is underway at the climax, and the Girl of the Week completely cracks, goes nuts... while dressed as ophelia. so here's ophelia brandishing a phaser.
this episode also sort of mirrors the plot of "the menagerie", which i consider pivotal from a k/s timeline standpoint. because of his personal suspicion that an actor is actually the vanished-and-presumed-dead governor of the colony where kirk lived when he was about ten--a governor who earned the epithet "the butcher" for declaring martial law in a food shortage and putting half the colonists to death--he arranges to have the actors aboard to investigate for himself. he diverts the enterprise from her assigned course, refusing to discuss his actions and becoming very brusque on the occasions when spock tries to question him, until a confrontation where he actually yells.
(in "the menagerie" [1x16][coming soon!], spock hijacks the whole enterprise and picks up the former captain, whom he also served under, to give him a ride back to a planet they visited once before, subjecting himself [and kirk, who as his commanding officer is also responsible] to a court martial. kirk is very disturbed on that occasion--in my interpretation, principally because spock doesn't confide in him at all.)
