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Subject: Re: "His was the most human"
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 16:15:27 EST
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> 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.  It should have been one of the
> great sad slobbery moments of science fiction film,
> comperable in human terms only to the suicide death of the
> second monster in RODAN.  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.
> ...
> 
> 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.  Never mind that Spock was
> always 3/4 of the brains on the ship (Scotty had another
> 1/3, and the remaining -1/12 was made up of Kirk.)  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.
> ...

IF this was supposed to be sarcastic or funny or something like that...
   ignore this reply.  Otherwise...

WHO ARE YOU TO CRITICIZE STAR TREK ? ? ?

If you don't like the way it was written/produced/developed/etc. then
DON'T WATCH IT and DON'T BOTHER US WITH YOUR COMPLAINTS ! ! !

THANK YOU !  !  !

					Paul M.