instead of the super bowl friends and i reconvened for a last-minute Spoopy Bowl II. unlike last year the programming was not spoopy at all, star trek IV: the voyage home. again, last-minute thing. i'm just glad a spoopy bowl even happened

anyway, was struck by
1. 1986 marine biologist lady is a sketchily written, emotionally limited otaku who literally only cares about whales

2. Kirk's attempts to be sauve and smooth with her fall flat and he ends up being creepy a lot

3. Sulu is almost always smiling in the SF scenes and we are reasonably certain he traded sex for that Huey copter he obtained

4. Chekhov lost his rad leathers when he got captured :(