re: #34 gocart mozart

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A friend on FB posted set of pictures with prominent Star Trek characters gender switched. I gotta admit, I’d definitely do Jane T. Kirk! But Dr. McCoy looks like a piece of work.

Anyway that reminded me of the episode where an old girlfriend of Kirk’s from his Academy days tricks him into some alien machine and swaps minds with him, so she can take over the Enterprise. This of course gave Shatner a chance to show us his impression of a woman pretending to be a man.

But the thing that stuck with me was, after they got everyone back in their proper bodies, Kirk says how sad it was that she went nuts because she couldn’t be a starship Captain, because “Her life could have been as fulfilling as any woman’s.”

SO, in 1967, we still thought that in 2 centuries, starship Captains would still be exclusively male - even if not exclusively human.