Subj : Re: Spock/Uhura Re: Star Trek (2009) To : All From : Wouter Valentijn Date : Sat Oct 29 2011 17:58:52 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: liam@valentijn.nu Subject: Re: Spock/Uhura Re: Star Trek (2009) "Zombie Elvis" schreef in bericht news:33kma7tlmjtq94c1o0lq42g72posndpest@4ax.com... > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:26:33 -0400, ToolPackinMama > wrote: > >>On 10/26/2011 1:10 AM, ToolPackinMama wrote: >> >>> Are we supposed to believe that peoplein the alternate timeline are >>> insane AND also have no standards? >>> >>> I guess that would explain/excuse Spock/Uhura.... >>> >>> >> >>Don't get me wrong about Spock/Uhura. >> >>1) Uhura is lovely and 100% deserving >>2) Spock and Uhura were shown in classic TOS to be fond of one another. >>3) If Spock/Uhura had already been established in TOS, or in the >>TOS-crew movies, I would be OK with it. >> >>BUT! > > Keep in mind that the new Star Trek takes place in an alternate > universe from the original which the creative team plenty of room to > play around with the characters and storylines. >> >>1) Neither Spock, nor Uhura were ever depicted as the type to be openly >>affectionate with anybody, ever! > > Both Spock and Uhura were mature professionals with well established > Starfleet careers in the original Star Trek. In the new Trek, Spock > and Uhura are fresh out of the Academy cadets. (OK, Spock is a 'grad > student' or whatever the Starfleet equivalent is called.) So they are > at an age when people are more likely to be given to open displays of > affection even if they become more reserved later in life. >> >>2) Uhura's dream man is a handsome black man of her own species. >>[Refer: Mantrap] > > That doesn't mean she wouldn't also be open to a relationship with > pasty-faced Vulcan. How many of us ever actually meet our dream man or > woman? >> >>3) Spock rejected Uhura [Mantrap], rejected Chapel [Naked Time, Amok >>Time], and generally isn't interested in women at all. The times when >>he actually showed interest in a woman, he was drugged, or in some other >>way clearly not himself. >> >>http://www.allyourtrekarebelongto.us/mantrap.htm > > He's older and more heavily disciplined. The new Spock has not had the > Vulcan stick up his ass fully tightened. And given that at this point > in his life, the new Spock is still pulling away from Vulcan and its > traditions, breaking off from the Vulcan seven-year cycle with a human > female is likely to appeal to him now. Plus there is the shock of the destruction of Vulcan. If original Spock was shaken by the death of over 400 Vulcan on board the Intrepid, imagine what happens to a young Spock getting the death of the whole world of Vulcan (AND his mom) straight in the face. BTW, I still think Lucas had Spock in mind when he thought up Obi Wan feeling the death of Alderaan. :-) > -- Wouter Valentijn http://www.j3v.net Rory 'The Roman' Pond: "Would you like me to repeat the question?" 'Doctor Who 6x07: A Good Man goes to War' liam=mail --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: CCO BBS - capitolcityonline.net:26 (1:2320/105) .