I haven’t watched Amok Time in a while, so remind me:
was there an explaination given in episode why Spock didn’t just have his 7-year heat cycle on a 24th century period-tracker app?
Like it seems like the kind of thing you’d want to take time off work for, and I’m sure Starfleet has medical leave.
Even if he didn’t want to tell them, surely he could have just asked for time away ahead of time and not explained why?
frankly the whole scenario feels like an HR/management failure?
Even if Spock is the only Vulcan on the ship, surely one of these fucks has been to a training class which talks about the different medical needs of the various races of the federation?
There’s gotta be a yeoman who tracks time off who has been to a bunch of cultural sensitivity classes.
okay I’m gonna headcanon it as being entirely spock’s fault.
He’s been getting notifications for months and keeps ignoring them, putting them off for later, forgetting when that exactly would happen… until suddenly it’s too late and he’s on a mission and OOPS HE JUST INVENTED SLASH FICTION.