The Enemy Within - Stardate: 1672.1
Sexual Situation: Hedonism, Sexual Predator & Pathological Behavior
While exploring planet Alpha 177, a transporter accident splits Captain Kirk into two men. One remains civilized and uses his higher reasoning to continue to function as Enterprise Commander, the other shocks as a primitive minded, raging and living example of Freud’s concept of the Id. Time is running out - both for the away team marooned on a frozen planet, and the divided Captains, who are now devolving into more extreme versions of their base selves.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Larry Talbot and Wolfman. The Hulk & Bruce Banner.
The complex duality of the average human personality may not be as pronounced as these literary, Hollywood and comic book anti-heroes, but we all struggle with a sense of a divided self - at least at some point in our lives. Sprouting body hair and a nightmare overbite, bursting out of your clothes in a jade green roid rage, or downing a beaker of a potion and morphing into a hedonistic ogre is fun stage and screen sci-fi drama. Hulk smash!
James T. Kirk is not unlike any other hyper motivated, physically attractive, statistic shattering and brilliant Starship Captain. In fact, considering others made from the same mold like Captains Picard, Pike, Sisko and Janeway, it takes one highly disciplined individual - constantly in control of one’s emotions and impulses - to save planetary civilizations, negotiate with vastly more intelligent entities, and romance so many dynamic people. Despite that tightly maintained exterior, it doesn’t mean there isn't a chaotic, even self serving man or woman floating right below the surface just waiting to pop out. Apparently, the trick to exploiting such an A-Type personality to forging a successful career is to exert a tremendous force of balance over one’s baser instincts.
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