Date: 29 May 2003 03:48:09 GMT
From: anim8rfsk@aol.com
<< 4) Weren't Tellarites a bit shorter on TOS: "Journey to Babel". >>
And had a different number of fingers.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:20:10 -0500
From: Denise Inglis <sinalco@attbi.com>
I was finally able to see this one.
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I thought it did a better job story-wise than "The Outcast" in that the
consequences of Trip's actions were severe (the congenitor killed itself),
but I thought he should have received harsher punishment than just a stern
dressing down from his captain.
The thing that really bothered me was at the end there seemed to be a major
rift in Archer's and Tucker's relationship...good character development and
all that, but then a couple of episodes later in "Bounty" they're best
buddies again. ::shrug::
Date: 29 May 2003 22:51:56
From: nebusj@rpi.edu
>The T'Pol in heat plot was just stupid. Aside from "sexing-up" the
>series, it added nothing to the character or the series. Maybe some
>viewers out there might have a wet dream or two. It is very well
>known, since TOS days through Voyager, that Pon farr is a Vulcan male
>only thing.
While there's almost no limit to the things objectionable about
the T'Pol In Heat story, honestly, I'm not aware of any declaration in
any Trek that pon farr is a male-only thing. It's only been *seen*
before in male Vulcans, but it's a classical logical fallacy to suppose
that means only male Vulcans experience it. (And that even without
considering how very few female Vulcan's we've had the chance to learn
anything about.)
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 00:27:47
From: jamie <allhailjamie@hotmail.com>
>The T'Pol in heat plot was just stupid. Aside from "sexing-up" the
>series, it added nothing to the character or the series. Maybe some
>viewers out there might have a wet dream or two. It is very well
>known, since TOS days through Voyager, that Pon farr is a Vulcan male
>only thing.
If it was only a Vulcan male thing, Spock would've made that
distinction in the TOS episode "Amok Time", instead of telling Kirk
that it afflicted "Vulcans". Has anyone recently seen tihs episode?
I don't remember exactly what Spock said about it, but I'm fairly sure
he didn't say anything about gender.