Star Trek watch, S.1: The Galileo Seven

Which I wrote as "GalileD Seven" in the season summary I fashioned. Crap.

I can't believe that this is the only Star Trek episode I've managed to watch in almost a week if being alone home. I guess that's because i'm seldom home. Even Choupette is missing company so much that she came to sit UNDER me while I was doing push-ups. Attention-hungry beast. In any case, I need to stop leaving work so late. And I need to start to sleep more, so I can concentrate enough to do a full shift in the normal time of said full shift. *sigh*

So, GALILEO SEVEN.

I'm a big Spock fan but by God, in this episode he grated even on *my* nerves. I wanted to tear his annoying logic out of his hands and slap him in the face with it and I think the crewmen of the Galileo stranded with him on that ape-infested planet were regularly on the verge of doing the same. He of course relied on logic in this first command -gone-wrong but it was...utterly cold. HE felt utterly cold, without any hint of the warmth or humor that normally colors his attitude.

That's not the way I like my Spock. Despite his claims of having no emotions, we normally see that he does, because the control slips from time to time - mostly when he is with Jim, but there have been other occurences. In Enemy Within when he tells Janice with a smirk that the intruder "did have some interesting qualities, didn't she think so?". In Mudd's women when he smiles, amused, after seeing the procession of women. At the end of Naked Time when Kirk asks if he's OK and you can see Spock's features and eyes softening when he nods Yes. Nothing of that in this show, not even when he did that desperate move to eject and inflame the shuttle's fuel in hopes someone might catch sight of it, against all hope. Although he might have raised an eyebrow during Kirk's later try to make him admit the gesture was motivated by emotion, but it doesn't seem to count.

I quite adamantly wanted to slug that obnoxious and pompous ass of Commisionner Ferris on the back of his thick skull. His sole purpose was to annoy the hell out of everyone.

I wonder if Shatner complained about not having enough lines in this episode. The focus was clearly more on Spock than him. Hehehe.

Slash factor: Rather low. I was a bit disappointed that Kirk didn't seem more concerned for each *individual* that he was on the verge of losing. No "Oh God, no, don't let me lose Spock, please" - or Bones, or Scotty, who are great friends of his. (By the way, what is the logic -ha!- in sending his tree most important officers to study a scientific phenomenon? What use are a doctor and an engineer in that?) Kirk's concern seemed...impersonnal. Either he didn't give himself the time to think about it, or he didn't care - which I have a hard time believing. Anyway.

On the other hand, that episode does have the delightful scene where Kirk comes to lean against Spock's science station and slips his arm behind Spock's shoulders, on the back on his seat. I've seen it often in the K/S vids and I always liked the intimacy of it. My enjoyment was a bit lessened by the fact Kirk was actually having fun at Spock's expense, though - I don't resent the fact he was teasing him, but the way he kept laughing at the end, laughing *at* Spock.




I'm getting way too sensitive about this. It's a frickin TV series for Chrissake.