Page Commentary No. 53 (Patreon)

Gunwild: It'd be in bad taste to pat ourselves on the back, here. I'm only happy that at least a few hundred people felt enough connection to this comic we did on the event of Leonard Nimoy's death that they shared it around, in the hopes it would help others too.

Psu: Look, if you're going to interrupt your comic with a side strip, it either better be very funny or very poignant. 

Gunwild:  I hope this was at least a bit of each.

Psu: How'd you pick the quote? I don't have nearly so comprehensive a library of quotes that you get to pull. 

Gunwild: Well, I was thinking about things Spock did that defined him to me as a character. There were a few - you know, radiation chamber, referring to Sherlock Holmes as his ancestor, nerve pinching, being "Chinese." But one I remembered was from a late episode that really wasn't very good, which featured a bunch of counter-cultural space hippies getting picked up by the Enterprise. They annoy the whole crew with their philosophical ramblings and general weirdness, but Spock at least tries to understand them before he worries about condemning them. So I pulled the quote and it worked on a few levels, and here we are.

Gunwild: I think it's a core element of Star Trek's message, and the kind of life Leonard lived, that yes, you should try to communicate with people and learn from them, even if they wear weird clothes. Or have funny ears. Or whatever. Odds are, you'll have more in common with them than you might think. And you should try to find out what that is - it's only logical.

Psu:  (Sorry I didn't add a lot to this commentary, I found myself tired and busy during when Gunwild and I usually discuss these things. But this was actually one of my fondest strips. It is a bit if a stretch that a kid hundreds of years from now is watching ToS and not some new inspiring show. But Cassiopeia as a universe grounds itself with references not just funny to us but important to us. And Spock is one of them).

Gunwild: It's not "Star Trek," I tell you... it's a historical documentary!