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From: jam@dcl-cs.UUCP (John A. Mariani)
Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: "His was the most human"
Message-ID: <969@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 05:51:56 EST
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.969
Posted: Tue Feb  4 05:51:56 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 19:23:03 EST
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Reply-To: jam@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John A. Mariani)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
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In article <1623@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP writes:
>For reasons of my own, I just saw the end of STAR TREK II:
>THE WRATH OF KHAN.  That is the one that has Spocks's tear-
>filled eulogy by Capt. Kirk.  
>But the content only confirms for
>me what I have known all along, that Kirk is and always has
>been (strike that, STAR TREK takes place in the future, make
>it "Kirk will be and will always be") the consumate jerk.
>It is a particularly insensitive thing to say about his
>friend who is only half human and has always been (will
>always be?) sensitive about his piebald origins.
>
>Kirk's eulogy goes with other odious phrases like "Mighty
>white of you!" and "You have behaved like a Christian."
>There has been the prejudice through the whole STAR
>TREK series that being a human was the ideal and being a
>vulcan was less than the ideal.  
>The
>script writers always sharpened their bigotry on the concept
>of human superiority to Vulcans.  The human solution to
>problems always was made to sound better in the end, even
>though it probably would have gotten everyone killed if it
>wasn't Spock logically choosing the human solution.
Can't say I disagree with that last paragraph but....
>The pro-human
>prejudice was an understandable problem, I suppose.

I think you've missed the point of Kirk's words (for what they are worth!)
I think what he meant was that Spock, although an alien, was actually
the most Human (in every good sense of that word -- if there are any left)
being he had ever met i.e. he aspired to the greatness that humankind
could reach (hey! I'm even beginning to sound like Kirk!) better
than any actual human.
-- 
"You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars...."

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