Well, imagine trying to fix that by revealing that really, Kirk and Uhura had always pined after each other, but they couldn't be together because of… oh, let's say the Borg… and so their kiss was really them taking advantage of the situation to finally express their love.
Oh, but it's worse than that. Because if you retconned the Kirk/Uhura kiss that way, it doesn't make either of them look like complete losers or bad people. It's more similar to, what if the reason they couldn't requite their love was that unbeknownest to all of us, but known to Kirk, Spock and Uhura were secretly married. So now Kirk and Uhura are expressing their hidden passion, at Spock's expense and the expense of making Uhura look like a cheap ho and Kirk someone who screws around with his best friend's wife. Also, the WTF factor of "Spock married Uhura? When? What the hell?" kind of parallels the "Gwen had an affair with Norman Osborne?" thing.
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Date: 2010-08-12 05:03 pm (UTC)Oh, but it's worse than that. Because if you retconned the Kirk/Uhura kiss that way, it doesn't make either of them look like complete losers or bad people. It's more similar to, what if the reason they couldn't requite their love was that unbeknownest to all of us, but known to Kirk, Spock and Uhura were secretly married. So now Kirk and Uhura are expressing their hidden passion, at Spock's expense and the expense of making Uhura look like a cheap ho and Kirk someone who screws around with his best friend's wife. Also, the WTF factor of "Spock married Uhura? When? What the hell?" kind of parallels the "Gwen had an affair with Norman Osborne?" thing.