Why the heck would anyone want a Vulcan husband when there is zero chance they will drop dead first and leave you their wealth?
Paris + B'Elanna scene, absolute cop-out
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What do you mean zero?
Every seven years, how open the wife keeps her legs defines that poor bastards life expectancy.
Every seven years, how open the wife keeps her legs defines that poor bastards life expectancy.
That's diabolical. But what a shame that future medicine gets rid of headaches so easily. If the wife is unexpectedly unavailable, like she's broken all her bones in a shuttle accident or has sehlat rabies can the husband use a substitute? Since it's not like anyone is going to challenge him over the diseased wife. And what happens if your wife has something terrible happen but doesn't die but can never mate with you again, do they divorce over that? Are there comfort Vulcans who medicinally are supplied when needed? Or do they sentence the ones who have gone bad (like that dude in ENT who was a smuggler) to not-the-death-sentence but oh fight this guy his wife can't mate?
It's possible that you're both meant to die together.
Bonded as children, and then sex melded to booster the physical congress and telepathic link... That seems to have some expectations of permanence?
Besides it's poetic if you die because you spouse dies.
Stupid, but poetic.
Besides, they need to tackle over population somehow.
Although Sarek was married at least 4 times.
So, because of social mores, some spouses must chose not to unbond with their mate due to social conventions and expectations?
Bonded as children, and then sex melded to booster the physical congress and telepathic link... That seems to have some expectations of permanence?
Besides it's poetic if you die because you spouse dies.
Stupid, but poetic.
Besides, they need to tackle over population somehow.
Although Sarek was married at least 4 times.
So, because of social mores, some spouses must chose not to unbond with their mate due to social conventions and expectations?
Dying together is only romantic if it happens when you are very old, like in The Notebook. Otherwise it is totally dumb because your kids are deprived of both their parents at once and have no one to move back in with and borrow money from. Of course this might not bother Vulcan kids but I do think it would bother Vulcan society if a brilliant Vulcan scientist's wife gets sehlat rabies and drops dead and he dies too because of the meld when he had a good 200 years left of benefiting his planet.
Tony and Maria?
The Vulcan Science Institute churns out 100s of thousands of fantastically capable scientists and engineers every year.
But nobody dies or seeks retirement.
Have you ever seen Whoops Apocalypse?
The Government convinced the workforce to jump off a cliff to make room for the children getting out of University.
How big was the Vulcan Empire before the Federation?
The Vulcan Science Institute churns out 100s of thousands of fantastically capable scientists and engineers every year.
But nobody dies or seeks retirement.
Have you ever seen Whoops Apocalypse?
The Government convinced the workforce to jump off a cliff to make room for the children getting out of University.
How big was the Vulcan Empire before the Federation?
Late getting back to this, but yeah, I think so. For a Vulcan, he's pretty easygoing and I like that he wasn't all stuffy like Tuvok about the luau. He took on a little bit of the Vulcan superiority complex when he proposed to B'elanna, but overall he's pretty open minded as Vulcans go.
Captain Solok was interesting for other reasons. Here we have a Vulcan with a serious superiority complex that he's aware of and enjoys thoroughly. He judges "emotionally handicapped species", takes part in rivalries, and is generally a jerk all the way around. What's fascinating about him is while he's making fun of "illogical human bonding rituals" he teaches his crew to play one for the sole purpose of giving Sisko a hard time.
The most interesting Vulcans were the ones we saw infrequently. But that's just my opinion.
YES. That. B'Elanna is different to Tom; so for once he does not think with his gonads. That he does so in a context where the gonads do all the talking (however silly) is called "irony".
I thought this episode, all things considered, was actually quite well conceived, especially following as it does on one of the last lines of the previous one, "Coda", in which Janeway (somewhat prophetically) says "I wonder if Tom and B'Elanna will ever stop sparring and develop a real friendship".
It's after this episode, and B'Elanna's "be careful what you wish for" at the end that their relationship changes and evolves.
Oh, one more thing. Re the heading for this thread "Absolute cop-out"? If you watch the episode all the way to the end, you will see that once it's been made clear to Tom that this is a life-or-death issue, he actually agrees and they come as close to "doing it" as anyone in Trek had to that day, until Vorik barged in. Where's the cop-out?
The cop out would be having Vorik OR Tom save the Klingon. 
As "Tyrelle" once said in "If the Shoe Fits"
"Wow. You know what, Prince? You seem like a real nice fella, so I'm gonna make this nice and simple for ya. I don't need you, or a fairy godsmother, or anyone else to give me a happy ending. That's something that I'll get or I won't get all my own self. So I suggest you peddle this shoe someplace else."
As for the original poster's contention that...
Pray tell, HOW THE FRAK does Tom know that these are B'Elanna's real feelings? Sounds like the same age old argument the pursuer uses when the pursued has refused them. "I" know what "you" really want, so no doesn't mean no, and yes when impaired really ,means yes.
Talk about playing into 1950's idylic Americana culture.
As "Tyrelle" once said in "If the Shoe Fits"
"Wow. You know what, Prince? You seem like a real nice fella, so I'm gonna make this nice and simple for ya. I don't need you, or a fairy godsmother, or anyone else to give me a happy ending. That's something that I'll get or I won't get all my own self. So I suggest you peddle this shoe someplace else."
As for the original poster's contention that...
Pray tell, HOW THE FRAK does Tom know that these are B'Elanna's real feelings? Sounds like the same age old argument the pursuer uses when the pursued has refused them. "I" know what "you" really want, so no doesn't mean no, and yes when impaired really ,means yes.
Talk about playing into 1950's idylic Americana culture.
Don't like obtaining consent, move to Saudi Arabia.
It's true, that is the difference between taking advantage of a drunk women and Tom having sex with B'elana. If she didn't her life was in danger, and it was pretty clear that B'elana would make the same choice sober, having sex with Tom rather than dying.
If B'Elanna had died, could Tom have been charged with murder for withholding his penis?
This is why Sarah Connor got in the car with Kyle Reese when he said, "Come with me if you want to live!"
Which is why she ran from him into a night club because he looked like a sex offender.
Death from No Snu-Snu. So, "Blood Fever" was the mirror opposite of "Amazon Women in the Mood" and ahead of it by 4 years (almost to the day).
Interesting Paris had sex with every female character in the main cast, in this or in an alternate timeline, except Seven of Nine. Lucky this wasn't TNG or else he might've had to make lizard babies with Dr. Pulaski.
Any baby coming out of Pulaski would be a lizard covered in cobwebs.
So when Seven was recording B'Elanna and Tom petting... Does that making her a voyeurist bordering on rapist or the surprise gueststar and therefore Parisfodder?
If Bloodfever happened on the other side of Scorpion... Would he have have still tapped B'Elanna?
So when Seven was recording B'Elanna and Tom petting... Does that making her a voyeurist bordering on rapist or the surprise gueststar and therefore Parisfodder?
If Bloodfever happened on the other side of Scorpion... Would he have have still tapped B'Elanna?
Thanks, Melakon. That's what I meant to be getting at.
It just seems so... prissy is probably the word. Like, "oh, we can't possibly suggest these people are actually going to do it". There shouldn't be any problem with them being together, they're mad about each other anyway. And personally I thought they should have realized that and gotten it on ages ago.
Well, and if she'd died.... I reckon that could've been called "causing death by neglect" the one time our walking pair of gonads Mr.Paris decided to think with what's between his ears... that would've been quite ironic.
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