Tumblr crosspost (2 February 2025)

[anghraine]

I was looking up a random S1 factoid in one of the okay but lesser TOS episodes and this bit from “What Are Little Girls Made Of” sure hits differently now:

KIRK: Well, there’s one difference between us. I’m hungry.
ANDROID KIRK: The difference is your weakness, captain, not mine.
KORBY: One at a time, gentlemen. Captain?
KIRK: Eating is a pleasure, sir. Unfortunately, one you will never know.
ANDROID KIRK: Perhaps, but I will never starve, sir.

me, drafting a post on “The Conscience of the King”: hey robot feel free to shut the fuck up forever

Tagged: #not quite up there with lenore being like 'who do you think you are to judge my father for orchestrating a genocide you survived' #or kodos himself defending himself by claiming kirk is basically subhuman which is. uhhh layers of horrifying #but. you know. good god. #(this was produced only a few weeks before 'conscience of the king' btw which almost immediately precedes 'shore leave'. despite the episodic quality the air order does make spock and mccoy's machinations #to get kirk to take some shore leave and decompress VERY understandable #also mccoy's remark in 'shore leave' #that kirk was a very serious young man in his early academy days and kirk's correction that he was not just serious but grim ...yeah)