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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Immortality's Highly Emotional Price

What price immortality?  How about chronic sorrow and loss?  When Kirk's Enterprise comes upon a planet with an odd duo, the Starfleet crew encounters a man who lives forever and one who was never alive at all.


Captain Kirk is captivated by a sexy, young woman - one Rayna Kapec.  Rayna, played by actress Louise Sorel, appears as the worldly man's perfect companion or even his ideal mate.  She's lovely, impressively well read and eternally charming.  She is all these things and can be many more, because she's artificial.  As an android, Rayna can be programmed with many attractive attributes, but the most elusive condition and fragile quality - that of human emotional interaction - eludes her.  Ultimately, it's the female construct's undoing, and a heartbreaking loss for both Flint and James T. Kirk.

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