If you watch old Star Trek episodes from the original series, the characters play out a recurring pattern.

Something horrible is prime to happen.

And Spock says,

Captain, there are 3 million colonists on the planet.

The ship carrying the bomb has only 400 civilians.

Logic dictates that we destroy the ship before it can arrive.

Then McCoy says,

Damn it, Jim, those are people, not numbers.

You can't just talk about human lives like an equation. And then Kirk says, maybe we change that equation. Make

our own solution. Meet me at the transporter in five minutes. Bring a fun period costume and some space prophylactics.

And then they save the day, great show! McCoy is the touchy-filly guy. He's empathetic, passionate, immediate.

He thinks in terms of people and suffering, he leads with his heart, which makes him

view appeals to data and abstract arguments as cold and inhuman.

Whereas Spock is the Logos, he's rational, calculating, empirical,

he's looking at the situation analytically.

And Captain Kirk provides direction and action.

He mediates between the two and interfaces with the outside world.

He answers the question, okay, which direction are we going to steer this ship?

And occasionally you get Mr. Scott, the engineer, the practical nuts and bolts and

lithium crystals guy.

Scotty's not debating ethical quandaries on the bridge.

He's not concerning himself with aughts or ideology

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