Star Trek used to be able to deliver messages to its audience without beating them over the head. It's like the difference between someone sharing their point of view with you in a civilized conversation to someone screaming through a bullhorn
ººWhat I didn't like about the original captain Pike is that in the middle of his five year mission, he was tired and complained about being responsible for the lives of his crew. Sounds to me that he was the wrong man for the job. "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." From the bridge plaque of the USS Yamato NCC-71807 United Federation of Planets
Or gee, maybe he was just a human being who'd just been through some crap (the incident on Rigel where a bunch of his crew got killed or injured) and was tired and questioning his career choices in that moment. As we saw in the episode, he did regain his equilibrium. All the great leaders you can think of have had those moments of self-doubt; the folks who wrote the history books just weren't in the room then, so they weren't recorded.
@@peterg76yt Well, he was wrong. In fact, they televised everything that he said. Leaving me (and no doubt others) to believe that he was a weak leader who was tired of his responsibilities (as he said so) and to cope with it all, he dranked. And that wisecrack that he made about, "women on the bridge" it was so 19ᵀᴴ century. It was just so way out of line that it would never have been spoken, not even by a ferengi. Jeffrey Hunter was a fine actor, but he was given some terrible lines.
Star Trek used to be able to deliver messages to its audience without beating them over the head. It's like the difference between someone sharing their point of view with you in a civilized conversation to someone screaming through a bullhorn
ººWhat I didn't like about the original captain Pike is that in the middle of his five year mission, he was tired and complained about being responsible for the lives of his crew. Sounds to me that he was the wrong man for the job.
"I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
From the bridge plaque of the USS Yamato NCC-71807 United Federation of Planets
Or gee, maybe he was just a human being who'd just been through some crap (the incident on Rigel where a bunch of his crew got killed or injured) and was tired and questioning his career choices in that moment. As we saw in the episode, he did regain his equilibrium. All the great leaders you can think of have had those moments of self-doubt; the folks who wrote the history books just weren't in the room then, so they weren't recorded.
@@kingdave31 And so he took up drinking.
Maybe he was tired, and as a leader he only shared this fact with someone who had an obligation to keep his statement confidential.
@@peterg76yt Well, he was wrong. In fact, they televised everything that he said. Leaving me (and no doubt others) to believe that he was a weak leader who was tired of his responsibilities (as he said so) and to cope with it all, he dranked. And that wisecrack that he made about, "women on the bridge" it was so 19ᵀᴴ century. It was just so way out of line that it would never have been spoken, not even by a ferengi.
Jeffrey Hunter was a fine actor, but he was given some terrible lines.