Geek Jim Kirk
Dec. 6th, 2017 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madimpossibledreamer*small voice* am I allowed to sneak in a mini-post for yesterday because I forgot to post because I am a dumb?
I don't know where everyone's getting 'Jim Kirk is a musclehead' from although I've got one guess that I might discuss later. Again, I don't think they were watching the same thing I was. His friends/family all think he's weird for his Old Earth obsession (in the 'that's adorable but I seriously don't get it' way) and did ANYONE pay attention to how often he was waxing poetic about some expert or another? Note: that's not something Spock does. Probably because he prefers to rely on facts rather than theories. He'll mention it if it's relevant but will usually just look at the facts as presented and his own knowledge. Bones is too busy complaining about dumb people/actions and, again, trusts largely in his own skill. (He'll bring up research, say, with the thing with Sarek, but not by author names but by topic.) Jim's the only one on the ship who not only knows the names of people who publish in fields he's interested in but will actively follow their work and talk about it with anyone he knows assuming they don't stop him. (If they did, he'd probably just grin that sheepish grin.)
And that's completely ignoring everything we learn about his time in the Academy...
I don't know where everyone's getting 'Jim Kirk is a musclehead' from although I've got one guess that I might discuss later. Again, I don't think they were watching the same thing I was. His friends/family all think he's weird for his Old Earth obsession (in the 'that's adorable but I seriously don't get it' way) and did ANYONE pay attention to how often he was waxing poetic about some expert or another? Note: that's not something Spock does. Probably because he prefers to rely on facts rather than theories. He'll mention it if it's relevant but will usually just look at the facts as presented and his own knowledge. Bones is too busy complaining about dumb people/actions and, again, trusts largely in his own skill. (He'll bring up research, say, with the thing with Sarek, but not by author names but by topic.) Jim's the only one on the ship who not only knows the names of people who publish in fields he's interested in but will actively follow their work and talk about it with anyone he knows assuming they don't stop him. (If they did, he'd probably just grin that sheepish grin.)
And that's completely ignoring everything we learn about his time in the Academy...
