#he turns down christine chapel. he turns down droxine.

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SPOCK???????????????????????????????????

SPOCK STAR TREK???????????????????

THIS MAN????????

when a fic writer is like “kirk liked everyone: male, female, human, alien. even plant creatures!”

and i’m like. ah. yer one of ‘em cisgendereds ain’t u.

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The Horror of OOC Writing

A long time ago, there was a show called:

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And on this show there was a very popular character called Mr. Spock.

Mr. Spock had a Vulcan side and a human side, but for the most part, he was pretty logical. He certainly wasn’t distracted by the ladies at every opportunity, like his freewheeling BFF, Captain Kirk.

During the episode “That Which Survives,” the crew encounters a hologram named Losira whose touch is deadly. When the hologram is contained, Dr. McCoy remarks on her beauty, while Mr. Spock is more impressed by her intelligence, expressing a belief that beauty is a relatively meaningless characteristic.

"Beauty is transitory, doctor."

Spock on Losira

"Beauty survives."

Kirk to Spock

Now, Mr. Spock did not get around nearly as much as Captain Kirk did, but he did have a few romantic interests during the show’s run.

There was Leila Kalomi, a brilliant scientist.

There was T’Pring, who turned out to be a Machiavellian asshole who used her intellect for bad ends, but she was a smart cookie nonetheless.

There was Zarabeth, a resourceful huntress trapped in the time of her home planet’s ice age as punishment

There was the devoted Nurse Christine Chapel, a knowledgeable and compassionate medic.

And then there was this drip.

Not only did Droxine’s airy-fairy voice have the same effect on me as nails on a chalkboard, she was a self-absorbed, pampered princess completely detached from the suffering of the serfs who made it possible for the nobility to live the high life in the clouds. With no social conscience to speak of and with nothing to offer except for a frighteningly skimpy top which seems poised to fly off at some inopportune moment, Droxine seems to be a self-insert Mary Sue who serves no useful purpose and whom Spock wouldn’t even give a second look.

Except that this version of Spock is totally OOC. He behaves like a drooling frat boy, ready to pounce on Princess Airhead. I feel like the scriptwriter for this episode didn’t bother to examine Spock’s character in the previous episodes. He rarely gets romantically involved, and Drippy Droxine has nothing in common with any of the women he’s been paired with previously. They were all intelligent and compassionate. Droxine has all the personality and compassion of a kitchen sponge.

The Spock who once remarked that beauty was transitory proceeds to make the inane statement that “extreme feminine beauty is always distracting.” Excuse me while I take a moment to have a jolly puke.

It would have made more sense to have Kirk drool over Droxine and Spock be kidnapped by the Troglytes. Instead of aggravating, OOC flirting between Spock and Princess Airhead, they could have had a full-on makeout scene between Droxine and Kirk, while Spock kicked some ass down in the mines and came up with a logical solution that would benefit everybody.

This is the show that dared to depict the first interracial screen kiss. The extreme out of character behavior on the part of Mr. Spock should not have slipped by the editors so easily.