So I’m watching TOS for the first time… (have alreay watched all show from TNG to DISC quite a while ago and yes, my fav is DS9 followed by TNG) and have just started “The Enemy Within”
Idk why but my shitpost-ridden brain instantly went “wait… d-did they make Kirk hot?”
that’s it, that’s the post. It’s mostly a /hj (I hope (?))
(just has the vibe of queercoding a villain having the opposite effect)
EDIT: I have now seen the following sexual assault scene, wtf
Queercoding villains to make them seem dangerous and deviant to the people of the time (and those that are still stuck in that time). Admittedly, the people making that decision probably weren’t conscious of that being why they thought eyeliner made him look villainous.
For me it’s a simple makeup effect to show unmitigated sleep loss from the intrusive voices.
Yeah, that what I was thinking as well.
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Is Ming the Merciless an example of this?
Makes sense, tho as you said I wouldn’t suggest bad intentions/faith of anyone in the team behind Star Trek (except fucking Berman, obsly), since I see it as a deeply progressive (not in the lib way) show
… because they had to make him distinguishable from normal Kirk but hadn’t yet settled on the convention of just giving him a goatee?
Btw that sexual assault scene is even more fucked up when you learn that Grace Lee Whitney was sexually assaulted by an unnamed executive associated with the series…
Also this doggo is absolutely adorable in that costume
Also this doggo is absolutely adorable in that costume
The wrong two of those actors are dead. ☹️
It should have been Shatner, twice.I don’t think i follow?
Leonard Nimoy and the animal actor who portrayed the Alfa 177 canine (in all likelyhood) are both dead.
I would prefer a world where a cute happy dog and Leonard Nimoy were still with us and William Shatner had died, twice.
So you know he’s evil without a goatee.
I’m imagining William Shatner stumbling on this thread and having a fit of villanous laughter.
