cicely wrote:
"even ol' Jim Kirk might have had trouble getting personal with shapeless blobs or chitinous un-nameables. No vicarious romance for the audience."

Don't you remember the "silicon based" life form, sort of a mobile boulder that tunneled around, was phasered by somebody & doctored with some cement and a trowel? I seem to remember Kirk hugging it or something, or at least emoting a bit, although clearly not the mandatory liplock with the typical short-skirted over-eye-shadowed hair-sprayed long-legged alien babe.



Peski
"Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of something is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel." - Homer Simpson