Star Trek TOS: Shore Leave
I bet the real Finnegan is nowhere near as unhinged (or as comedy "Irish") as the version of him that lives in Kirk's mind.
Like, can you imagine if there was a Starfleet cadet leaping up and down on the spot around going "hee hee! hoo hoo!" like a fucking goblin? Nobody's giving that guy a passing grade.
(also, "I'm twenty years old", sir you are Not)
I mean, in their off hours, I'm sure Finnegan pulled off some kind of nonsense like that. But definitely NOT during class.
FYI you're giving me more motivation to have him as the commander of a Starfleet warship in my imaginary Star Trek crew I've been dreaming up the past little while.
And yes, PLEASE give us a reunion to see how insane the real Finnegan is or isn't. I need more of this Irishman.
I bet Finnegan, one time, drank like three pints of Guinness, called Kirk a tryhard and, idk, smacked his nerd textbooks out of his hands, and over time Kirk build him up to be this unhinged Celtic menace when in fact he's just a guy who was a dick at a pub one night twenty years ago and doesn't actually remember the interaction.
















