So I’m watching TOS for the first time… (have alreay watched all show from TNG to DISC quite a while ago and yes, my fav is DS9 followed by TNG) and have just started “The Enemy Within”
Idk why but my shitpost-ridden brain instantly went “wait… d-did they make Kirk hot?”
that’s it, that’s the post. It’s mostly a /hj (I hope (?))
(just has the vibe of queercoding a villain having the opposite effect)
EDIT: I have now seen the following sexual assault scene, wtf
… because they had to make him distinguishable from normal Kirk but hadn’t yet settled on the convention of just giving him a goatee?
Could also have been to make the difference more subtle, since they’re different parts of the same person, rather than being two separate people like the goatee counterparts are.