skygiants

When I read Spock's World, lo these many eons ago, I was very young...and actually appreciated that there was a woman as the, well, bad guy--because all of the stuff that my mother, the library, all those Concerned Librarians et al. were handing me was so relentlessly "raaaarrrr, weemens are TEH AWESOMES!!1!" that I was like, "pish, then why are the girls at school bullying me and beating me up?" I found it more in-line with real life to have a woman doing Bad Things and causing Troubles...though not because she was a woman, but because it showed me that it was ok if I screwed up, too, as I knew I would! (As a tween, the entire world looks at you and revolves around you--and I was so scared of screwing up! Because, clearly, I could cause a planet to attempt to withdraw from the union. /wry self reflection)

As an adult, I'm right there with you with the "WTF? Don't be hatin' and retconning that impressive piece of logic and agency, which are T'Pring's only tools against a system that decided her reproductive and romantic fate at the age of seven."

Is it Spock's World that has Kirk lurking in a bar in old Ireland, and getting the call and having to step outside into the rain to beam up? I have no idea why I loved that scene so, but I did (and do), and would like more of Kirk going, "dammit! but this beer is chilled...oh, fuck it" and rolling out with Spock to save the galaxy once again.

And LOL, spider-crystal! I remember her, and was always like, "I think this spider-crystal is cool but I am very concerned someone will speak loudly and she will go *poof* and shatter all over the engineering bay. That would suck.'