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kirk wearing the i am kenough hoodie

a little past the peak of this trend but he really works it

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Spock’s autistic ass getting factory reset in the search for spock only to come back n be taught swear words and indulge in his special interest (whales) Kirk was stressed as hell

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when i first started watching star trek i was like oh my god im betraying my ancestors I don’t see spock or kirk as queer??? my forefathers built fandom around them and i dont think theyre queer im such a disappointment.

then like three episodes in spock says something like “when i think about our friendship i feel ashamed” and i was like oohhh, girl i know what the fuck you are. anyway yeah they’re gay as fuck and i am so relived i can finally see the vision

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coworkers: have any fun plans for the weekend?

me:

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🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

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“Ladies love a sharp-eared man”

Happy Pride 😛🖖🏳️‍🌈

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canon

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The real difference between McCoy and Kirk is that when Spock turns into an unskipable cutscene McCoy is frantically mashing every button while Kirk is enjoying the view

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Doing this before I see anyone else’s

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having kinda a hashtag spirk summer

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captain obvious

(+ lineart only)

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Promises

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this show is so silly

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i will follow you - rick nelson

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this is frying me

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I’m gonna go ahead and be a film snob and talk about why this is one of my favorite shots from TOS. (I could also say that it’s one of my favorite scenes, because the entire scene actually consists of a single shot.)

We don’t see a lot of bald expressions of emotion in film and television, especially if that emotion is fear or sadness or vulnerability. Dramas will give us some tears, but they always cut a way after a few seconds because a closeup of someone crying is deeply uncomfortable and most movies and TV shows aren’t in the business of making their audiences uncomfortable. It just doesn’t sell well.

But in this scene the camera never looks away. It follows Spock as he sits down at the table, and it circles him as he cries. But there are no cuts. We don’t even get music to create some distance, make it all a little more palatable; we just hear sobs and mumbled math equations.

It’s absolutely excrutiating. It would be excruciating no matter who we were watching, because we are so unaccustomed to seeing unadulterated emotion. And then there’s the fact that it’s a man. And that it’s Spock.

Fifty years later and this is still one of the most daring filmmaking decisions I’ve ever seen on TV (I of course can’t be exactly sure who made it, but I’m assuming it was the director of the episode, Marc Daniels). This shot lasts 1 minute and 45 seconds. We’re in the middle of space and in the middle of a high-stakes episode where the crew is going crazy and the ship is going to blow up or some shit and everyone’s lives are in danger, but we pause 1 minute and 45 seconds to have an uncomfortably human moment with an alien who doesn’t even want to be human, and it’s so awful and amazing.