Amok Time from Stonn's Perspective
There is this line in the episode that many people find totally iconic:
And don't get me wrong, I agree - it is a good line. But it's also so very, very wrong in context?
Put yourself into Stonn's perspective for a moment:
He loves T'Pring, and she tells him that she loves him as well, but she is engaged to this guy.
She has not spoken to him for ages, he has all but abandoned life on Vulcan for a career in Starfleet and because he is half-human, he may never enter Pon Farr at all. Except one day he does, and you are totally expecting one of two things to happen:
a) T'Pring marries him and your affair is over.
b) She challenges and chooses you as champion - which has a 61.54% chance of ending in your death because the guy is a soldier with combat training and experience. (This is the way kal-if-fee is supposed to work, btw.)
Except neither of those things happen because your girlfriend is brilliant and awesome and loves you very much and finds a way to keep you safe and to be with you no matter what.
And then the guy says that to you.
And you realize that he understands nothing - that T'Pring does not prefer you for logical reasons but because she loves you. And that she just made you the most perfect love declaration imaginable.
But you're Vulcan, and the situation is already awkward enough, and T'pring evidently does not need you to fight for her honour, so you say nothing.
And then everyone sees you and your future wife as the villain because she did not want to sleep with a guy that apparently everyone else wants to sleep with. Not gonna lie, I'd be mad.
Except Stonn is probably too busy eating p*ssy to think about Spock.
