06-20-2022, 01:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2022, 01:19 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
You just reminded me of another anecdote. When Gene Roddenberry read Nicholas Meyer's screenplay for Star Trek II, he objected to Kirk's Kobayashi Maru solution and said, "Kirk wouldn't cheat." Meyer's response was "Television mentality." Which, of course, it was.
In the original series, Kirk sometimes lied to "bad guys." He frequently made decisions that someone (usually Spock) suggested might violate the PD, but as we have previously discussed, he always offered his argument for why they didn't. Since violating that directive would have been a career ending offense, we have to presume from Kirk's continued captaincy that his superiors chose to buy into his reasoning. And yes, he did cheat, but we didn't find out about that until Trek was out from under the thumb of network standards.
McCoy's personality was often described as grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, etc. I wouldn't argue with arrogant, but in the 1960s, arrogance in male heroes seems to have been a feature rather than a flaw.
In the original series, Kirk sometimes lied to "bad guys." He frequently made decisions that someone (usually Spock) suggested might violate the PD, but as we have previously discussed, he always offered his argument for why they didn't. Since violating that directive would have been a career ending offense, we have to presume from Kirk's continued captaincy that his superiors chose to buy into his reasoning. And yes, he did cheat, but we didn't find out about that until Trek was out from under the thumb of network standards.
McCoy's personality was often described as grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, etc. I wouldn't argue with arrogant, but in the 1960s, arrogance in male heroes seems to have been a feature rather than a flaw.