Star Trek 'Shore Leave' Captain Kirk's Irish Fight With The Fabled Finnegan
Finnegan Is James T. Kirk's Bully From Starfleet Academy. When The Two Fight It's An Irish Brawl Complete With Irish Music
The Star Trek tale, Shore Leave, remains one of the most popular original series - created by Gene Roddenberry - episodes in the entire Trek universe. The memorable sci-fi story features an amusement park like world - a wild pleasure planet where most any dream or fantasy comes true. The USS Enterprise crew beam down and exotic adventures await them, but also peril and even danger.
Soon enough, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) meets an old Starfleet Academy classmate - an upper classman named Finnegan, who used to bully James T. Kirk while studying in the Academy. Their fight impresses as one of the most epic showdowns in Star Trek history. This fight also is, in many ways, is an Irish brawl. Let's talk Irish fighting, music and how some feel Finnegan is presented as an Irish stereotype.
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