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   Subject: Re: "Tholian Web" Notes (K/S) [Humor, commentary]   
      
   On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:03:51 -0700 (PDT), Ron    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sep 22, 1:14aam, yep wrote:   
   >> McCoy was insubordinate. aSpock should have immediately put McCoy on   
   >> report. aAfter that, the brig.   
   >>   
   >> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:51:31 -0400, ToolPackinMama   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>  wrote:   
   >> >Tholian Web Notes   
   >> >by Laura Goodwin   
   >>   
   >> >This is a great episode for Spock fans, because Spock is the star of the   
   >> >episode, and at the center of all the action. Even more delightful,   
   >> >Spock acts like a steely, logical, buttoned-up, _proper_ Vulcan the   
   >> >whole time.   
   >>   
   >> >This is especially remarkable, since Spock is relentlessly bedeviled by   
   >> >Dr. McCoy through the whole misadventure. Normally McCoy can get a rise   
   >> >out of Spock, but NOT TODAY.   
   >>   
   >> >This is not a good episode for McCoy fans. The relationship between   
   >> >Spock and McCoy is spotlighted, and it clearly is not a happy   
   >> >relationship. McCoy is nasty, cruel and unsupportive to Spock, pretty   
   >> >much through the whole thing. His bare-knuckled ugliness is not only   
   >> >painful to watch, but it's clearly unjustified and utterly   
   >> >unprofessional, to boot.   
   >>   
   >> >McCoy has never been harder on Spock, but strangely, Spock's never   
   >> >stayed cooler. This is remarkable, and demands examination.   
   >>   
   >> >As we saw in Journey to Babel and other episodes, Spock is a paradoxical   
   >> >creature. He's never more logical and relentlessly unemotional than when   
   >> >he is using his Vulcan mental disciplines to cope with huge emotional   
   >> >stresses. We've rarely seen Spock so stone-faced and mechanical as we do   
   >> >in this episode. Anyone who knows Spock well knows that he gets like   
   >> >that when he's coping with a horrendous emotional blow or strain.   
   >>   
   >> >What blow or strain? Well, what's the whole episode about? Spock and   
   >> >Kirk are separated. Kirk's life is in danger. Spock risks absolutely   
   >> >everything, tries absolutely everything, and almost loses everything,   
   >> >including the crew and ship - because he adamantly refuses to give up on   
   >> >Jim. Even after he has formally declared Jim to be dead, he refuses to   
   >> >give up and leave without him. That, my friends, is not logical - and   
   >> >McCoy tries to draw our attention to the fact that it's not logical,   
   >> >several times.   
   >>   
   >> >Spock's behaving logically, but he's not motivated by logic. Obviously   
   >> >he's motivated by love for Jim. His love for Jim, his desire to try   
   >> >anything, everything, in a wildly improbable attempt to rescue Jim -   
   >> >even if it costs everything... is nothing new. This insane, obsessive   
   >> >degree of devotion is a hallmark and linchpin of the Kirk/Spock   
   >> >relationship.   
   >>   
   >> >There is no heterosexual "romance" for even a second in this episode,   
   >> >nevertheless it is a fiercely romantic episode. Spock spends the entire   
   >> >episode obsessing about Jim Kirk: trying to save Jim's life, trying to   
   >> >be reunited with Jim. Blah, blah, blah alternate universes. Blah, blah,   
   >> >blah Tholians threaten the ship.   
   >>   
   >> >Boy visits derelict ship with boy, boy and boy are separated by bizarre   
   >> >circumstances, boy moves heaven and earth to get boy back, even long   
   >> >after it seems logical to try - that's basically the plot. Boy gets boy   
   >> >back... that's the happy ending.- Hide quoted text -   
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   >   
   >Right... Put the chief medical officer in the brig... during an   
   >emergency... and a medical emergency at that.  Then, too, there's the   
   >matter of rank; Spock was acting captain but still only a commander by   
   >rank and I know i have seen McCoy give orders to security (The   
   >Menagerie, I think) so I'm guessing at this point, Spock and McCoy are   
   >both of the same rank even though McCoy is not normally in the chain   
   >of command. So I don't think he _could_ file charges like that even if   
   >it wouldn't be both illogical and a foolish thing to do given the   
   >circumstances.  ;-)   
   >   
   >Ron   
      
   I didn't say eliminate the entire medical department, just slap the   
   schmuck chief medical officer who is PMS'ing.  You really think Kirk   
   would just sit there and let McCoy rip him a new asshole and question   
   every command he gave like somehow being a Southerner made him an   
   expert on anything besides losing a civil war?  Hell, no.  McCoy   
   pushed it WAY over the line.  The acting captain is GOD ALMIGHTY to   
   that ship and outranks ANYONE on the vessel...as proven when Kirk   
   ORDERED Spock to take command and relieve Commodore Decker.  Not even   
   the Chief Medical Officer could relieve a captain without an exam. And   
   chief anything that is acting like a total hysterical insubordinate to   
   that captain isn't really worth a flip alive or dead, in charge or   
   not.  Relieve them of duty, throw them in the brig and their deputy is   
   now in charge.  That's why you have a chain of command in the first   
   place.  NO ONE is irreplaceable.  "Security, haul McCoy to the brig."   
   And why was McCoy always hanging around the bridge anyway like a   
   mooneyed school girl?  It was NEVER HIS duty station, unlike Scotty   
   who could be excused for slumming.   
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