[discostu]

Everybody was Gene’s mistress. He was a cus hound. And Majel knew it, and learned to live with. She caught him cheating on her with hotel staff on their honeymoon. Nothing going on with Nichelle would have burnt him. Majel had accepted it.

[cowboyusa]

TOS is an idealized version of what America could be. Kirk is unabashedly 100 percent American. The Federation is the US. The Klingon's are the Soviets. The
Romanians are the Chinese. The Federation are unabashedly the good guys. TOS is a Space Western, it has the same format as a Western. It is also a Cold War drama.

[Texan5]

Acceptance is not something that will keep a woman from protecting her pride-or burning to the ground the jerk who makes her a fool in public-check out some of the interviews Barrett gave in later years-she would have done it to save face and for the $$$. the only reason it never happened was because horndog Gene died early. Scandal was a big deal back then-the more salacious the better to make money by publishing it-I read the scandal mags then, just like all the other girls and women...