Office decorum, private life, and micro‑power: Josh and Donna's interpersonal thread—Josh's matchmaking and attempts to enforce workplace decorum (the Star Trek pin incident with Janice)—exposes how personal desires, embarrassment, and small authority ...
Office decorum, private life, and micro‑power: Josh and Donna's interpersonal thread—Josh's matchmaking and attempts to enforce workplace decorum (the Star Trek pin incident with Janice)—exposes how personal desires, embarrassment, and small authority plays intersect with West Wing social bonds.
Events in This Arc
Josh notices a temp wearing a Star Trek pin and tries to nudge Donna to enforce White House decorum. Donna deflects, then pivots and cashes in a favor: she asks …
Josh drops into Commander Jack Reese’s office and opens with offhand curiosity about Jack’s work at an Arctic Circle radar station, a moment that humanizes the new military aide and …
After a warm, human moment between Donna and Josh, Janice challenges Josh from her desk about her Star Trek pin. Josh answers with a teasing, semi-exasperated monologue that draws a …