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Posts like this reconcile me to the bad, infinitely-memed guy in a Gorn suit in TOS ‘Arena’.
OP can I recommend Star Trek: Lower Decks as your gateway … to the onscreen franchise. A logical place to start.
Say what you will about Shatner, and a lot of it will be perfectly true and highly applicable, but there are plenty longstanding pro wrestlers who wouldn't have committed as much as he did to selling the fuck out of each one of those glacial smacks.
A wind up a mile long, but what do I know, I don't knock most people (and species stronger than mine) to the ground with the ol one-two like he does.
The ham in TOS is like half the fun though 😄 Same with the first couple of seasons of TNG.
I can appreciate the camp now. In the 90s, it was very cringey. . . and in the 60s & 70s I was too young to get that it was campy.