2 Works by flamingostalker
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While breakfasting at Beorn's, Fíli chugs that huge tankard of milk and spills it. Reader makes a few messes and helps clean them up.
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Third-Order Vulgarism by flamingostalker
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek
20 Jul 2021
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In one of his letters to Gene Rodenberry, writer Theodore Sturgeon criticized the constant rewrites of his material. He referred to the revision of the end of “Shore Leave”, where Dr. McCoy is surrounded by half-naked showgirls, as a “first-order Vulgarism”. He went on to give an example of a third-order Vulgarism:
“The whimsical friction between Bones and Spock is brought to a head by McCoy’s diagnosis that the Vulcanian needs a prostate massage, and must have it. But Spock’s prostate is not near his stern, but his sternum, or breastbone. So we have MED CU McCoy rolling up the sleeve of his tunic, not to the elbow, but to the shoulder.”
So what if television in the 60’s wasn’t full of a bunch of cowards?