Pointless Musings

I ended up catching the Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" the other day and I got to thinking. I'd always found the female first officer in the Enterprise's "original crew" (or rather, the crew of the pilot) pretty intriguing. I always thought it was a shame that Roddenberry was apparently given the option of keeping either her or Spock instead of both. (For the record, I would have chosen Spock too, but it's a shame we couldn't have her too.)

I remember, when I was a kid, reading one of the Star Trek novels that expanded quite a bit on the character's past. It was a pretty interesting idea, as I recall. The Majel Roddenberry character had apparently been one of many genetically engineered "perfect women", (the scientist who created them was male, of course) who apparently decided "screw this" and left, joining Starfleet instead.

I mean. That's pretty damn cool. All sorts of nifty feminist interpretations available there.

It strikes me that with a bit of judicious tweaking, that could be a really nifty backstory for a comic book superheroine. Pygmalion and Galatea with a much more satisfying ending.

And punching things.

Well it's cool in my head at any rate. :-)