#st:tuc

The Undiscovered Country was good too I thought although I am not okay in anyway. I'm gonna miss my people so much I'm so attached I'm not ready to move on!!!

carol marcus

i mean, god love ‘er, she got a lot of stink out of everything that’s been happening previously

but now she’s got back with kirk??? for some reason?? and we’re hardly even told what happened, it’s just presented as fact

okay fair enough

and then the writer decided that she needed to get seriously injured by an alleged attack by klingons, to both give kirk manpain and something to be angry over???

what

no

don’t do that

i wanted her to’ve stayed on delta or come home to earth and meet a nice scientist and maybe they got together or whatever she wanted

but to reduce her to this entirely?? even her absentee presence and refusal to talk to jim in the previous novelisations after twok were less whatever, because i, as a reader, was given reason to understand this; but not so with all of this muck

i mean, if you just watch the movie, there’s plenty explanation why jim’s angry when they get sent off to rendez-vous with gorkon’s ship:

spock’s been away to gods know where

when he gets back, he’s suddenly volunteered his captain for this mission??

without asking jim first?? what the hell spock??

you know how he feels about klingons???

also, did you remember, spock, we’re like three months away from retirement??

can’t we do, idk, something easy and fun as a going-away-mission???

and obviously spock’s been so immersed in all these peace talk things prior to the admiralty meeting that he’s not even stopped to think about jim’s reaction, and that’s what jim’s angry about, too, to’ve just been kind of an afterthought, and everything about the mission just rubs him the wrong way

i mean, in the film, jim’s anger clearly derives from the duality of 1. talking to klingons - who he’s not fond of in the slightest; and 2. spock going behind his back like that.

also

as a reader i’d have liked to have known more about how torn bones was between understanding both his friends’ points of view, and not exactly wanting to take sides, but also wanting to support both, because both matter to him, and he doesn’t really like the fighting, not when it’s for realsies.

but in the novelization, the core bridge crew’s anger and antipathy is boiled down to people going, “but didn’t you hear what the klingons did to captain kirk’s love interest??”

while in the film they seem sort of low-key disturbed by the idea of peace talks, and biased against klingons as a species, but nowhere near as obviously angry

somehow the film is more nuanced in this?? by leaving things ever so slightly more open to interpretation?