perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) (07/20/84)
<JIM!> >Another instance that doesn't fit is in "The Cage" when only the women >manage to beam down, and Spock yells "THE WOMEN!!!". This doesn't fit with >whoever wrote on the net that Spock only yelled on the bridge so that his >voice would carry. This was in the transporter room. I invite comment, >but don't try and tell me that this instance was an emotional response. I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but, it WAS an emotional response. "The Cage" (those flashback scenes from "The Menagerie") and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" were both made before anyone had come up with the idea that Vulcans should be unemotional. Even after that, it took awhile for the idea to develop. He wasn't even supposed to be half human until "The Naked Time". And remember that he IS half human. While he tries to supress this aspect of his personality, it is undeniably there and can come out at any unguarded moment. Remember his reaction when he saw Kirk alive after thinking he killed him in Pon Farr ("Amok Time")? In fact, this is the only thing that makes Spock an interesting character. ST-TMP forgot this and I didn't like Spock that much in it. Robert Perlberg Resource Dynamics Inc. New York philabs!rdin!perl