• chonglibloodsport
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    7 months ago

    It wasn’t animosity. Bones and some of the other crew just tried to bully Spock all the time. It was basically racism to go along with the sexism in their treatment of Janice Rand.

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      7 months ago

      Animosity is literally a strong feeling of dislike or hatred and in this case the source of that animosity would be the racism.

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        7 months ago

        There’s no evidence in the show that Bones actually hated Spock.

        The show itself definitely tried to prove that emotions are superior to logic (by having Kirk beat Spock at chess) and this situation reversed itself during the run of TNG (likely in response to Deep Blue’s victory over Kasparov). There was a lot Chauvinism and smug superiority in TOS but nothing I would call strong dislike or hatred.