- spock is so gay. kirk is so bi. bones is so divorced. i love that trio so much
- i was really interested in the little sneak peak on the future criminal justice system. apparently smuggling warranted a sentence of psychological treatment (effectiveness disputed! hey, just like modern day.) also, what is kirk's authority to seize and question someone? is this a military thing or is he a de facto law enforcement officer in space? or was he just doing that because he felt like it?
- you called it a lie detector test, but i don't think it was quite that. the machine didn't work like a polygraph by reading his bodily responses to determine whether he was lying - it just compared his answers to its records. (note that it didn't say whether the women were lying, just that it had no information on him.) the interaction wasn't a way to tell if mudd was lying, but an opportunity for him to tell the truth, which is a distinction i find interesting
- yeah yeah real beauty is within but a change in your attitude can give you an instant full face of makeup? um sure. well i'll be taking that "placebo" just in case
- i am very lucky no one is checking my vitals when i'm in a room full of beautiful women becauseeeeee
I get the sense that because they are in uncharted space or something that they, as the military, get to sort of be the law enforcement for any other Federation vessels? Which would have precedent if you think about them as a kind of Western show, they're the federal troops in an unincorporated territory.
i had so many thoughts on this one
- spock is so gay. kirk is so bi. bones is so divorced. i love that trio so much
- i was really interested in the little sneak peak on the future criminal justice system. apparently smuggling warranted a sentence of psychological treatment (effectiveness disputed! hey, just like modern day.) also, what is kirk's authority to seize and question someone? is this a military thing or is he a de facto law enforcement officer in space? or was he just doing that because he felt like it?
- you called it a lie detector test, but i don't think it was quite that. the machine didn't work like a polygraph by reading his bodily responses to determine whether he was lying - it just compared his answers to its records. (note that it didn't say whether the women were lying, just that it had no information on him.) the interaction wasn't a way to tell if mudd was lying, but an opportunity for him to tell the truth, which is a distinction i find interesting
- yeah yeah real beauty is within but a change in your attitude can give you an instant full face of makeup? um sure. well i'll be taking that "placebo" just in case
- i am very lucky no one is checking my vitals when i'm in a room full of beautiful women becauseeeeee
I get the sense that because they are in uncharted space or something that they, as the military, get to sort of be the law enforcement for any other Federation vessels? Which would have precedent if you think about them as a kind of Western show, they're the federal troops in an unincorporated territory.