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On 2025-04-16 2:56 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>   
>> How about Star Trek: TOS?
> 
> I want to be drafted into a military in which only hot full-figured
> women with great legs are drafted and the very short uniforms are
> designed to show off as much leg as possible.
> 
Now THAT would be a fun army ;-)

>> I've been rewatching those in recent weeks and the other day, I found
>> myself squirming a bit during the Miri episode where Kirk is remarking
>> on Miri becoming a young woman and an attractive one at that. Although
>> Kim Darby was apparently 22 during the filming of that episode, her
>> character was supposed to be just entering puberty....
> 
> Sigh
> 
> Can it be explained for the millionth time that reproduction relies upon
> members of the opposite sex being attracted to each other's sexual
> characteristics? It's instinct!
> 
You know that and I know that but apparently the woke crowd finds it 
offensive.

In any case, it's not hard to imagine someone making the case that Kirk 
showed a possible tendency to pedophilia in those scenes. Someone could 
even argue that Kirk was grooming Miri, although he was doing it openly 
in front of Spock, McCoy and Yeoman Rand.

> That doesn't mean every time Kirk visited an unknown planet, he stampeded
> the women and raped the cattle.

A man gets lonely out in space....

-- 
Rhino