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âAround 3000 B.C., THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION emerges on the island of Crete, southernmost of the Greek islands and home to one of the oldest civilizations in Europe.
The culture that developed there during the second millennium B.C. spread throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean world. Creteâs command of the seas would allow its stunning art and architecture to deeply influence the Mycenaean Greek civilization.
Many myths and legends of Crete center around King Minos, son of the god Zeus. Minos became king of Crete and was said to be advised by Zeus himself. In one popular myth, Minos demands that Athens send 14 Athenian youths to Crete to be sacrificed to the fearsome Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull, who dwelled in the labyrinth on the island.
Although many Minoan structures have been given the secular term âpalace,â researchers believe their role was not a royal one. It has never been firmly established whether Minoan Crete had a true royal dynasty, so these lavish palaces may have had mixed secular and religious roles. Some archaeologists interpret these palaces more as civic centers from which to control and distribute raw materials, carry out rituals, mete out justice, maintain water distribution, and also organize festivals for the populace.â
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The more I think about it, I actually REALLY like the choice in the Wicked movie to alter Elphaba and Fiyeroâs introduction and to switch Avaric (I think?) from a human to a sentient Horseâbecause it adds the tiiiiniest bit of insight and foreshadowing into Fiyeroâs character and his subsequent relationship with Elphaba.
Not only does it soften their introduction, but it also establishes him as someone whoâwhile clearly seeing himself as superior in terms of rankâstill views Animals as fellow people. He and the Horse have banter and camaraderie, and Fiyero explicitly uses âweâ instead of âI.â He makes it clear that theyâre both fully present with Elphaba in the scene.
That helps fill in the arguable plot hole of why Elphaba spares him (and not also Glinda) in the lion cub sceneâheâs already established as someone who respects Animal autonomy in at least some capacity, and who she can reasonably trust to âgetâ the problem with Animal subjugation (something that Glinda, while just having proven her empathy for Elphaba specifically, hasnât genuinely shown herself to understand yet). IMO, it subtly helps establish Elphaba and Fiyeroâs relationship as one borne of political allyship (something that was really only subtextual in the stage show)âwhich is also part of why Glindaâs relationships with the both of them are tragically and inextricably doomed by the narrative.
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Thinking for no particular reason about one of my favorite Starfleet women of the week, who I believe is the highest-ranking woman in Starfleet we ever encounter in TOS:
:ｼďžâ§:ｼďžâ§ âż Dr. Ann Mulhall âż* :ｼďžâ§:ｼďžâ§
IIRC she's a full lieutenant commander, though always addressed as doctor rather than commander. But in fairness, a doctorate of any kind always appears to supersede Starfleet rank in TOS regardless of gender, which I appreciate for totally unbiased reasons :)
And tbh, TOS is frequently pretty wobbly about what most Starfleet ranks entail, or what rank characters even hold, because it doesn't actually care that much about it beyond naval vibes, contrary to the side of the fandom constantly insisting on Correct Military Procedure, USA Edition c. 2020 as some essential index to the regular cast's characterizations. Many regulations appear to be something like strong guidelines you've got to be able to justify ignoring rather than non-negotiable mandates (this very much includes the Prime Directive), and characters switch divisions when they feel like it, apparently, and why they end up where they do is often distinctly unclear.
Mulhall is not merely a PhD-holding scientist (an astrobiologist, specifically), she's pretty much defined by her commitment to scientific advancement. She's somehow both very Entrapta in terms of her priorities while also entirely reasonable and measured in her temperament and demeanor, and a distinctly compelling presence the whole time (thank you, Diana Muldaur). Just a very intelligent, contemplative, calmly fearless woman who is here for discovery.
She's only a "Kirkmance" WOTW in the sense that some married aliens use their bodies and kiss a few times, but the episode takes care to have both Kirk and Mulhall consent ahead of time. There's zero indication this would go beyond a few kisses. Mulhall and Kirk don't seem to experience the Sargon/Thalassa embrace all that strongly themselves, beyond their fuller understanding of Sargon and Thalassa, and may not even be fully "online" for it (and in the cut scene immediately after, Kirk is promptly absorbed in Spock and Mulhall in Chapel, so tbh I enjoy it as a very strange wlw-mlm solidarity beat). Regardless, Mulhall isn't using this as some proxy for an attraction to Kirk; she regards the possession as part of the overall experiment and expansion of Federation knowledge, and therefore SCIENCE!!!!!
She's also in the operations rather than science division, and seems pretty tech-savvy, so it's not clear what her actual normal job is. But there are fourteen science labs on the Enterprise, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that both more tech-aligned operations experts and science-division crew work together in them. Kirk does emphasize the technological facilities in the labs when he mentions their number, so who knows.
Either way, Mulhall has the same rank as McCoy, and technically even some overlapping expertise (both are biologists apart from their day jobs). But McCoy is, for some justifiable reasons, unenthusiastic at best about the whole thing, while Mulhall and Kirk aren't into each other at all, but they are very much into ADVANCING THE BOUNDARIES OF KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!
McCoy: this seems. bad and dangerous. very bad. do we have any reason to think these potential discoveries and mysterious alien powers aren't really bad
Mulhall and Kirk:
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Regularly scheduled reminder: all of TOS Kirk's known exes are authoritative, sophisticated career women near his own age whom he was deeply in love with and had long-term, meaningful relationships with. He is never framed in the show's narratives as someone who has avoided commitment in his past relationships, or held back in some way when it came to truly loving his partner.
We know of no former partners for which his lack of commitment or investment in the relationship or depth of feeling was actually the problem. On the contrary, when we meet Kirk's former girlfriends, they give every indication that having the Jim Kirk concentrated intensity beam trained on them in the context of a serious, ongoing, mutually voluntary and heartfelt romantic relationship was an incredibly heady experience that was difficult to give up, and remains difficult not to try for again.
It's also repeatedly suggested that, if anything, he was more committed in his past relationships than his partners were, though his girlfriends' feelings and motives were by no means casual either. We know of multiple times he's remained in obviously doomed relationships longer than was wise, trying to make them work anyway.
I actually do get that a 30-something male protagonist who, onscreen, has a revolving door of "love interests" (though ranging from ex-girlfriends to people he actually falls in love with to people he seductively flirts with as a tactic of survival to people sexually threatening, coercing, or outright assaulting him) is easy in some respects to assume must be averse to commitment or never all that seriously in love. But his ruthlessly utilitarian relationship with his own sex appeal when trapped or endangered + occasional harassment and/or assault is not the same thing as a small number of uncomplicatedly voluntary, heartfelt romantic relationships over the course of some 15 years, and his behavior when he's using his wiles "on the clock" is conspicuously very unlike how he behaves in his uncomplicatedly spontaneous, heartfelt romantic relationships.
I adore K/S and I fully believe that falling for Spock is very fundamentally different from Kirk's previous relationships in many ways. But "actually being in love for real" is not one of those ways and we have no reason to think he's shied away from commitment or love in his genuine relationships with other people.
Also, the wholesomely sex-positive, would-try-anything, healthily "open-minded ethical slut without hang-ups" concept of Kirk is far closer to TOS McCoy than to Kirk, or to TNG Riker (who is much less like Kirk than TNG thinks he is, tbh). Kirk himself is not particularly open-minded about men pursuing romance and/or sex without commitment as a freely-made choice rather than a tactic, or even about men being kind of harmlessly flaky about it.
He often reacts with disdain, alarm, exasperation, or some other form of near-moral distaste to other men pursuing the gratification of their libidos for no other reason than a good time and with no serious relationships involved. He all but calls Bones a dumb slut multiple times, he gets exasperated/disappointed with Chekov's indiscriminate youthful horniness (but not when it involves deeper relationships, like with Irina), he finds Scotty's infatuations distinctly cringe and pointedly compensates by treating Scotty's love interests with cool professional respect. His weirdness about shore leave is repeatedly (not always, but repeatedly) linked to shore leave flings. Kirk lives in a universe with literal sex pheromones and they bounce off his bubble of judgmental annoyance (overwhelmingly at other men) like rain off a windshield:
This is not "Kirk's personal hang-ups that sharply divide sex-as-high-romance from sex-as-transactional-tool and morally allow for little else, and his propensity for slut-shaming disdain towards men who are more casual about it, are good and healthy because they're concentrated on men," btw! This is "Kirk has a personality with his own history and issues not defined by racially essentialist contrast to Spock or affinity with McCoy."
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