RE: Explaining the "No Female Captains" thing. | Report this post to moderator
By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:29:29 on Aug 04, 2004

Gosh... these theads fall off the side pretty quickly!

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The symbollism. If she WAS "Kirk", then to me, Kirk would have immediately gone into "Kirk mode" and taken charge - including asserting his rank. And that could have been underscored by putting on the uniform.

Yes, but Kirk knew he was in another body, and he knew that anything he said would not be taken seriously by anyone.

Ahhhh.... So what does that say?

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Remember when Lester-as-Kirk (I think I got it right that time) burst into Sickbay asking Spock and Bones to help him/her, and Sandra Smith played that scene just as Bill Shatner would have (even freezing when he/she saw Dr. Coleman in the same room)? It was after that that Kirk knew he wouldn't be listened to...especially after Lester removed McCoy as Lester's physician and put her in Coleman's care.

And so you get that underscore of the theme of the ep.

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He knew he had to play it careful, and putting him/herself in the gold tunic would simply have cemented "Lester's" apparent insanity.

Yet at the same time, the Kirk body was talking about executions and such. ;-)

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As I noted, I think it would have smoothed out the problems with what the episode was trying to suggest and would have been powerfully symbollic.

And NBC probably would have pulled the episode, moving up the cancellation by a week. I'm sure the censors wouldn't have allowed a woman in uniform.

Exactly. Thus you end up with the convoluted thing that this ep was. Although, they still could have maybe argued that there was "possession" involved due to an "alien device". ;-)

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That would have been interesting, though, to have a "lost" Star Trek episode. :-)

LOL

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