"The Footnote," by Judith Gran (judygran@aol.com).
Originally posted to alt.startrek.creative, 12/04/1997
Well, I wasn't going to do this, but Robert Francis O'Reilly wrote,
<<There's no evidence to suggest that he was attracted to Spock in a
physical sense. That in and of itself suggests that Kirk was not
physically attracted to Spock. There's also a footnote of sorts in
the novelization of the first Trek novel in which Kirk essentially denies
that he was ever attracted to Spock.>>
When someone takes the name of the Great Bird in vain and misinterprets
Sacred Text (in this case, The Footnote, that is, GR's "editor's note" on
page 22 of the novelization of ST:TMP), I have no choice but to respond.
Before I begin, though, I need to point out the logical fallacy (um, I
almost wrote "phallusy") in Mr. O'Brien's first two sentences. In essence, he
argues that "nothing for which we have not yet seen evidence can be true."
Oops, there goes a few thousand years of scientific method. But hey, what
good is logic compared to dogma?
But here it is. A line by line analysis of The Footnote.