Virile Trek

With aka_tippi around, how could I not link to a Salon.com piece that opens with a description of Captain Kirk's package? Mark Simpson goes on to discuss "the crucial difference between the sweaty, highly Freudian original 'Star Trek' series and the sexless, sweatless, p.c. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,'" among other "spayed spinoffs."

To read the whole thing, I got a free daypass, because it required me only to look at some ads for Six Feet Under, a show I happen to like. The drawback wasn't the ads, it was the temptation of unrestricted access: I ended up reading an entire column on Hollywood glamour by my former boss Tina Brown. The innumerable ironies...agggh, I'm not going to start. But it was still worth it to read the rest of the Trek piece.

( imo )

Classic Trek is flawed, but it's got balls. Maybe that's the metaphor Simpson was reaching for when he made Shatner's equipment the lede in his piece.

Here's another link, in case the one at the top doesn't work.