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Expletive-deleted allergies: my throat is swollen and sore and my eyes all itchy, and that's even after I've taken Claritin. The heavier stuff always knocks me for a loop, so I daren't take it at work; this is going to be a very long day.

Bright light at the end, though! [livejournal.com profile] maevebran and I are going to be watching "Star Trek" again this evening. It'll be the tenth viewing for me, third or fourth for her. Mom teased me the other day that I'm going to have it memorized long before it comes out on DVD, and I told her, that's kind of the point; all those years of Shatner and Nimoy have engrained their voices on my muse, and if I want to be able to consistently "hear" Pine, Quinto, &etc. instead, I need to imprint them thoroughly, too. How's that for a logical excuse? ♥

In other Trek news, my "Could Kirk be an empath?" rewatch of old TOS continues to find solid support. He fought off the effects in "The Naked Time" better than even Spock did, I don't even know what to say about his interactions with himself in "The Enemy Within", and in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" his reaction to the androids was really interesting. He knew something was off about the first one before even Christine (who'd known the scientist it was portraying) did; and later, his response to "these are machines, not men" wasn't to treat them as machines, but to (successfully) appeal to their emotions, *lol*. Also, the whole "Spock got my message" sequence was bizarre in its complete lack of explanation and yet complete success. Reminded me of the whole, "Let me stun this Romulan and tell Spock I have his back, by which I expect him to understand that he is to interrogate the dude with a mindmeld, despite the fact that this Spock doesn't even know I know what mindmelding is" incident from XI. Awesome.
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Date: 2009-06-03 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davegrs.livejournal.com
Try Zyrtec. It's a non-drowsy that I find works better then claritin. There are also good prescription eye drops if that is a particular problem

Date: 2009-06-05 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davegrs.livejournal.com
The other thing I've lately been recommending for allergies and colds is a neti pot. It's done wonders for my sinuses.

FEEL BETTER SOON!

Date: 2009-06-04 05:46 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pronker
My own leanings towards Kirk as a favorite in Trek, disregarding his being irresistible to all and sundry females, make me agree with your assessment of his abilities. I don't know, I could relate to his sense of responsibility about his ship and mission and people. I never could really get into Spock's Vulcan-ness as being all that appealing, the talk of honor and so forth, though his scientific curiosity resonated with me.

Date: 2009-06-04 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sundara.livejournal.com
That is something I had not thought to use to explain the whole "Kirk & Spock working in non-verbal tandem on the Narada" sequence. It WAS a bit "huh?" when without any conversation they did their guarding-and-meld shtick. It would make a fabulous jumping-off point for a story--how Spock, much later, finally recognizes the oddity of what they did in the heat of the moment, and starts to think about how, etc....

Date: 2009-06-20 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reveilles.livejournal.com
I had always just figured that they had had a conversation off-screen about their general plan ("we'll find a crewperson, knock him out, you suck his brain and tell us where to go", etc.)

But I'm good with the empath theory. :) An empath who isn't consciously aware of it.

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