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18 days agoAccording to his wife Majel, yes.
According to his wife Majel, yes.
Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.
Scotty’s crew was two people and one of them died; he was the sole survivor. His method has a 50% fatality rate.
The whole “autistic screeching” thing kinda reinforces OP’s point. It’s pretty mean.
I admit I’m having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It’s supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it’s been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don’t know which one was the original.
I’ll keep trying to find it, though.