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From: ins_akew@jhunix.UUCP (Montgomery Scott)
Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: "His was the most human"
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 12:29:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 12:29:47 1986
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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.

I agree totally with you, Paul...
 
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