His tyrannical, crafty queen-mother Catherine de Medici (Josephine Crowell) is the real power behind the king.Wearing black tights under a jumper held with a leopard-skin belt, the tight, blonde-curled, ample woman pretentiously holds a cigarette holder upright and assures him (in an ironic, naughty-me, bawdy tone) with raucous laughter:Oh M""sieur, if what you""re needing is peace and quiet, I can assure you you couldn""t get more peace [piece?] anywhere, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.When she wrestles with him for the tab, he first teases her, withholding the tab from her.But when he learns she""s "Joey Doyle""s sister," he gives her the working tab.She gives it to her humiliated father so he can work.Father Barry asks he rejected men who have been denied work: "What do you do now?...Is his all you do, just take it like this?...Huh? What about your union?" He is told that the lawless local union is mob-controlled by Johnny Friendly: "The waterfront""s tougher, Father, like it ain""t part of America.When they were face-to-face, Kirk tried to reason with the former Starfleet captain and asked: "What happened to you out there, Edison?" He responded with his belief that a conflict and struggle were essential for progress, rather than the Federation""s peaceful approach with he enemy:We lost ourselves, but gained a purpose! A means o bring the galaxy back to struggle that made humanity strong.