One for Sorrow

and watched the original Star Trek series (as well as most of the movies, and the various series in the 1990s), no lie, this version of Captain Kirk was well... he was an asshat. Like his asshatness jumped out at me from the get go (and this is not even taking into consideration the deleted scenes from the movie). He was the typical American male lead, you know? I guess in the series they had more time to flesh out his character, whereas in the movie they had to fall into various tropes. Loss of father figure, long suffering mum (I assume), conflict with stepdad, him being bright and cocky? In a way I wonder if that's how America (in general) sees itself - as the action heroes that he (America always seemed more of a 'he' than a 'she', like how Germans call their country the Fatherland) exports. It would explain the GOP's foreign policy (lived in the Caribbean whilst Regan was POTUS and that was... interesting).