I toyed with the diea that both Boyce and Barry do like someone whsoe good with their hands, but I think I like it better with just their scheming backfireing on them that wee tiny bit. tho I could see someday down the line a friends-with-benefits sort of arrangement.
It was really important to me that the friction between Colt and Number One not just be jealousy over a man. Because, just no, you know? And I think someone like Number One would be affected by having her feelings for Pike trotted out in front of the brand new subbordinate. Becasue it's sin't so much I think that she's jealous of Colt, as she's convinced herself that Colt and Janese and Vina attract Pike in a way she doesn't--because she can't change who she is, and she doesn't want to. But I actually think their resulting relqationship is so much stronger precisely because it isn't about just that first flush of physical attraction. It's about who they are as people. And it's who she is that makes Pike desire her, not whether she fills out a sweater the same way as otehr girls he's fancied.
I really ought to write something with Colt. There's a scene which was cut from "The Cage" that made me like her much more, where after Number One gives the landing party the option of opting out, Colt joisn them, and Number One tells her she's new to the ship and no-one expects her to risk her life on basically her first day. But Colt wants to go anyway, for Pike. It's a shame that didn't make it into the final ep.
I agree on the friction and jealousy. Colt's question was inappropriate, and a breach of protocol... but it also just happens to be (more or less) what Number One, on her own, has been trying to work up the nerve to say for months, and telling herself why she can't. More a catalyst than a rival.
Heh. And now I'm thinking of another fresh-faced farm kid - throws himself into things, wears his heart on his sleeve, gets himself in trouble a lot...
I found it on a site I forgot to bookmark, from soemoen who worked on the remastered ep, and it's mentioned here. I can't find my copy of The Making of Star Trek to actually dig up the lines from the shooting script.
It was really important to me that the friction between Colt and Number One not just be jealousy over a man. Because, just no, you know? And I think someone like Number One would be affected by having her feelings for Pike trotted out in front of the brand new subbordinate. Becasue it's sin't so much I think that she's jealous of Colt, as she's convinced herself that Colt and Janese and Vina attract Pike in a way she doesn't--because she can't change who she is, and she doesn't want to. But I actually think their resulting relqationship is so much stronger precisely because it isn't about just that first flush of physical attraction. It's about who they are as people. And it's who she is that makes Pike desire her, not whether she fills out a sweater the same way as otehr girls he's fancied.
I really ought to write something with Colt. There's a scene which was cut from "The Cage" that made me like her much more, where after Number One gives the landing party the option of opting out, Colt joisn them, and Number One tells her she's new to the ship and no-one expects her to risk her life on basically her first day. But Colt wants to go anyway, for Pike. It's a shame that didn't make it into the final ep.
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I agree on the friction and jealousy. Colt's question was inappropriate, and a breach of protocol... but it also just happens to be (more or less) what Number One, on her own, has been trying to work up the nerve to say for months, and telling herself why she can't. More a catalyst than a rival.
Heh. And now I'm thinking of another fresh-faced farm kid - throws himself into things, wears his heart on his sleeve, gets himself in trouble a lot...
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