comments not in others' journals

In this post on startrek bloggers are complaining that Spock and Uhura have no chemistry and that, according to a screenwriter quote, the relationship was put in just so Spock would have someone to lean on when ( spoiler )

. I decided it was offtopic and possibly inflammatory so I didn't, but I was going to comment:

I can't help but think of twelfth-century romance readers reacting to Chretien de Troyes' latest and saying, "Who is this Lancelot? He's never been in it before, and now the queen's having an affair with him? Where did that come from? It's a ripoff of the Tristram stories, that's what it is. If Gawaine must share the spotlight, dump this loser and give us Kay back."

Edit I did comment earlier to someone complaining about the effect of the Spock-Uhura romance on the classic Kirk-Spock-McCoy triangle, asking, "What's wrong with a square?" The other blogger accused either me or the screenwriters of making Uhura into a mary sue (not true: everyone knows the Doctor is my Mary Sue). The gloves came off.

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I don't have player stats to back it up, because I don't primarily use a portable player even though qtrhorserider got me one, but I bet it's Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra, my alltime favorite piece of recorded music. Unless it's Ahmad Jamal's Suicide is Painless.