I saw...somewhere? Some commentary on what Amok Time says about Vulcan society, and whoever wrote it (MY BRAIN IT IS GONE; WHO WROTE THIS????) was saying, look, she didn't want to marry some guy she barely knew (Spock) who had become all Legendary (she says that specifically), and she had no way to get a divorce other than the challenge. So that's a reason to challenge right there.
PLUS. She gets asked if she is prepared to become the property of whoever wins. She agrees, but she's pretty specific when talking to Spock afterwards about how either Spock or Kirk, in the scenario she set up, would free her. Whereas if she'd picked Stonn, the guy she wanted, she ran the risk of ending up...property. Instead of a free person.
Looked at from THAT angle, it seems a bit different. (I once amused myself by writing a series of shorts about T'Pring's relationship with Spock in which she's more sympathetic than usually portrayed, and in some other story I took the property thing literally and referred to her as Stonn's "slave-bondmate". Really, there are lots of places you can go with her that make her more sympathetic, fanfictionally. There's been at least one really good ST:AOS one so far...oh, here: Having, Wanting (http://community.livejournal.com/reboot_genfic/1063.html). Poor T'Pring.)
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PLUS. She gets asked if she is prepared to become the property of whoever wins. She agrees, but she's pretty specific when talking to Spock afterwards about how either Spock or Kirk, in the scenario she set up, would free her. Whereas if she'd picked Stonn, the guy she wanted, she ran the risk of ending up...property. Instead of a free person.
Looked at from THAT angle, it seems a bit different. (I once amused myself by writing a series of shorts about T'Pring's relationship with Spock in which she's more sympathetic than usually portrayed, and in some other story I took the property thing literally and referred to her as Stonn's "slave-bondmate". Really, there are lots of places you can go with her that make her more sympathetic, fanfictionally. There's been at least one really good ST:AOS one so far...oh, here: Having, Wanting (http://community.livejournal.com/reboot_genfic/1063.html). Poor T'Pring.)