There’s a secret version of Star Trek-that they don’t want you to see-wherein Spock alternates saying “Captain” with “Craptain.” Every now and again Kirk gets a strange look on his face like he’s about to take Spock to task for fucking with him . . . but then he lets it go to attend to the cosmic crises of the moment. What’s weird is that there’s no resolution as to why Spock’s switching up the words. It’s not even clear if Spock himself is aware of this behavior. This has led many obsessive Trekkies to speculate about the existence of a “suppressed episode”-possibly scripted by Harlan Ellison-that explores Spock’s alternation of “Captain” with “Craptain.” Some have even gone so far as to speculate that this all has to do with Spock’s repressed human side-that “Craptain” is a way for him to vent his resentment for constantly denying his emotions in the name of duty in a near subconscious manner.
Of course, no one really knows.
It’s all just a shadow of a fart’s rumor on the wind!
