#tmp rewatch

[bathenaswopez]

Rewatching The Parent Trap and FUCK Danny is SUCH a dick. It’s unbelievable that Mindy being a working mom didn’t come to mind. That her having two jobs makes her a bad mom.

[gay-mooshrooms]

Unfortunately I am forever haunted by the "This simple feeling" scene from The Motion Picture.

Like it straight up won't leave my brain

[arcticsilence]

i havent watched star trek since getting into polar exploration and it's so... oh the enterprise? just like james clark ross ca 1848. oh we're on the discovery just like [gunshot]

[spockvarietyhour]

Moonraker (1979) vs Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

[gayfour]

Scotty has 12 hours to get the enterprise operational and he's spending 11 of them just flying around looking at her

[wwillywonka]

THIS. SIMPLE. FEELING.

[meloromantics]

would you consider dropping the link for the 280k spirk fic...?

happily my friend, go with god 🛐

[leftyllama]

Hey my ship's just finishing her refit at spacedock, want to come stare longingly at her with me?

[rainbowresurrection]

There are times in this novelization where it gets a little heady and dry (no more than your average sci-fi novel, esp like 50s-70s era novels) but its parts like this paired with the overarching themes that always, without fail, elevates it to one of my favorite books of all time. Whenever a few years slip by and I almost gaslight myself into thinking OG Star Trek wasn't THAT gay, I re-read this fucker and then I remember

I love how less than 20 pages into Gene Roddenberry's first and only star trek novel he submits into suggested canon that not only does the entire ship have a massive rumor mill surrounding Kirk and Spock's relationship, but also that by the end of the five year mission, the entire Federation has assumed that they are gay

[affixjoy]

I did it folks, I watched the one with the whales!

What a delightful movie, I had so much fun watching it. I don’t think it’s as high quality as Wrath of Khan, but its still so well done. There’s so much humor and hijinks! And WHALES!

Some things I loved:

💫 Spock trying to swear to fit in. Hilarious, and they used it the exact perfect amount. Any more would have been too much.

💫 Bones in the hospital. Perfectly grumpy, perfectly smart.

💫 Scotty was just great the whole movie. He’s always fun, but I like that he had a little more to do and got to be so funny. I bet it was a blast to film.

💫 The entire scene where Chekov is asking for the nuclear vessels had my husband and I dying of laugher. Possibly the hardest I’ve ever laughed at TOS stuff.

💫 Old married Spirk touring San Francisco together and visiting the whales. It wasn’t quitttttte the amount of love and heartbreak I wanted, but we did get some of it with Spock not calling him Jim.

💫 And of course, gotta include some Spones/McSpirk feelings! Bones translating Jim to Spock felt very THEM and very funny.

💫 I love that we got a sweet father/son moment with Sarek and Spock. After everything, it’s just so nice that Sarek could finally be proud of Spock. I wish Amanda had been there to see it, I’m always fascinated by her and her relationship with her family.

💫 I just love this crew, and I continue to be so pleased to see them all together having adventures and growing older. The more I watch the more I realize how rare and precious it is that we get to see them age. We get to watch them get older and dealing with it, growing in their careers and friendships. We get to watch how their bodies naturally change. And like, maybe that’s a weird thing to fixate on, but for the last few years I’ve been thinking a lot about how everyone on tv has to be young and beautiful. Even as they get older, they try to look as young as possible. But I feel like here I’m getting to see their wrinkles and their gray hair and their weight gain. They look like people instead of an idealized version of people. And I’m not saying they AREN’T beautiful, just that they look real and interesting and like they’ve lived. I’m sure smarter people than I have written articles and books about this. It’s just so nice to see and makes me happy!

Overall, extremely fun movie. Seems like it will be a great rewatch. If I have to rank them so far it goes:

Wrath of Khan

Voyage Home

Search For Spock (very close to Voyage home but not quite as good!)

And way down at the bottom is TMP.

[bathenaswopez]

The scene with Anna seeing Jeremy with that girl is giving Leia seeing Jay with Serena for the first time

[raisins-n-space]

rewatched TMP for the billionth time and decided to try drawing the opening scene on vulcan :] i’m still a bit rusty but i like how it turned out so here 🙌

[bonesfucker3000]

oughhh I drew some art recently and I'm tempted to post it, I finished that Bones TMP drawing (the hands look odd but idgaf hands are my no.1 opps),drew saavik for the first time after rewatching search for spock and some chibi gashir art...I'm so tempted to post it...

(Also I actually have motivation and I may draw my Star Trek oc and post it on here :3)

[trek-tracks]

Hello! I got a whole shelf of old Star Trek novels from a yard sale and I'm deciding which to read first. Unfortunately none of them are D. Duane. Can you tell me what other Trek novels/authors you've enjoyed?

At the moment, I have far more trek books than I've actually read, partially because I have no self-control when it comes to acquiring them, partially because, when I started to mine them for blog content, reading them started to feel like homework (I thought I put marking pages with tabs behind me after grad school). This is also tough because Diane Duane's novels tend to be far and away my favourites (Spock's World, Doctor's Orders, and The Wounded Sky are all brilliant), but you already knew that! They're also a large chunk of what I've read. I've also read a bunch of Blish novelizations and some of the movie novelizations, which are fun but don't quite count in the same way, since they are retelling known stories.

However, there are a few I can recommend. I really enjoyed A Contest of Principles by Greg Cox, which feels like a real extended TOS episode; our main trio all have plenty to do, and the relationships are very fond and very true to the series. Shell Game by Melissa Crandall also has the character relationships I'm looking for. (Actually, both of these at one point pair Spock and Bones together while Kirk angsts from the sidelines while doing his own part of the mission, which is apparently a fruitful scenario).

J.M. Dillard also knows the characters really well. I enjoyed The Lost Years a lot, though it must be said that it is basically the crew breakup novel because it bridges from the show into TMP, so you'll just have to rewatch the movies after to remember that it all turns out all right in the end.

Jean Lorrah's The Vulcan Academy Murders is fun as long as you don't go in expecting a mystery you can't solve in 30 seconds and just want to appreciate the characters and learn more about Sarek and Amanda.

Brad Ferguson's Crisis on Centaurus is worth it for the backstory look into Jim and Bones' first meeting, as well as giving us some time with Joanna McCoy.

I can't actually fully recommend Carmen Carter's Dreams of the Raven, which has a very strange and queasily unethical romance subplot that doesn't land for several reasons and an unsatisfying ending, but it's an interesting look into McCoy with amnesia (and it did let me coin the term "Character Fondness Power Differential" while writing the review).

This ask did, however, remind me that I need to start making a dent in my book collection before buying more (I store them where I can't see them, so I'm constantly surprised by how many I actually have). I think I'm reading Howard Weinstein's The Covenant of the Crown next.

If you search my "trek books" tag, you'll see more!

[mongeese]

Rewatched TMP and got so emotional about it that I wrote a 2.6k word spirk fanfic in one sitting. It's 2AM. I have a huge pile of dirty dishes in my kitchen that I was going to do. Before this I hadn't finished a fanfic in nearly 2 years. I'm going insane and frankly it feels great

[televisionenjoyer]

They could not pay me a million dollars to rewatch tmp. well they could but i would rather reread the book, which, even if (i think?) it'd take longer than watching the movie, at least it does not feel half as unveliebably long and incredibly slow paced as the movie itself.