the thing that kills me about this is it’s like, okay, Dr. Gillian Taylor is a marine biologist specializing in cetaceans. It makes sense that she would recognize this poem, maybe be able to offer up the title and author when it’s quoted. but Kirk. My darling. My love. why oh WHY have you memorized a twentieth century poem about whale sex,
Nicholas Meyer was vehemently against the idea of Gillian Taylor ending up in the late 23rd century at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In an interview featured in The Making of the Trek Films, he said:
“In my version of the script, originally, when they all leave to go back, she didn’t leave. She said if anyone’s going to make sure this kind of disaster doesn’t happen, somebody’s going to have to stay behind, which I still think is the ‘righter’ ending. The end in the movie detracts from the importance of people in the present taking responsibility for the ecology and preventing problems of the future by doing something about them today, rather than catering to the fantasy desires of being able to be transported ahead in time to the near-utopian future society of the Star Trek era.”
star trek women ➤ gillian taylor - star trek iv: the voyage home
I belong here. I am a whale biologist. Suppose, by some miracle, you do get them through. Who in the 23rd century knows anything about humpback whales?
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