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I wanted to share this essay from Star Trek Lives! because holy shit, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Not only is this insanely romantic, but it’s significant because Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy were very involved in the creation of this book. The authors worked closely with them (and other members of the orginal cast!) on multiple other projects as well, and Roddenberry even wrote the foreword of the book and endorsed it. That’s... wow.

Spock, the unlikely, unknown and lonely alien, is seen and known, understood and loved, in a way that few men ever have been, and he is learning to see and love as few men ever have.

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Me watching Kirk and Spock be gay onscreen

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Poster art by Gareth Williams for Star Trek IV The Voyage Home 1986

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Spock having a psychedelic brain blast and crying about how gay he is + the futility of his life-long self-hatred is the most 1970s way that movie could have ended. Chef's kiss

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Heirloom, my 7 years in the making Star Trek zine, is officially available for ~preorder~ on my etsy --> here :o)

Preorders will end April 1st and I hope to have them ready to ship around April 20th. \o/ Please read the etsy item page for more info on contents!

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Underground industrial electronic goth band about to drop the clingiest clangiest beep boop track in the gamma quadrant

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Kirk really played the LONG game with Spock. Years of flirting just to get the tiniest smile out of the man. What a king

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I'm thinking of making this a whole series where I repaint ds9 scenes but replace what the characters are drinking with monster energy zero ultra? There's no actual joke or point I just think it's funny

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Ambassador Sarek

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THEY WERE CRAZY FOR THIS

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I can not stress enough that in Star Trek, Amanda Grayson being an incredibly loving wife AND shitty parent is a feature, not a bug. She loves Sarek with her whole heart. And as much as she loves Spock, every single time she has to choose between them, she'll back Sarek. Spock grew up knowing his mom loved him, but that she also did not understand him and would never have his back.

Before people in the mainstream even had the vocabulary to describe what they were seeing, they understood on a gut level that Spock was a neurodivergent, mixed race adult son of two incredibly charismatic and successful parents.

There are so many layers of relatability here.

A surprising lot of people in very loving and devoted marriages aren't great parents. An unsurprising lot of powerful people with prestigious careers also aren't great parents.

Folks who grew up with parents who were great at their jobs and devoted to one another but who just couldn't relate to or understand their kids could see themselves in Spock. Moreover, he demonstrated that if they took a path radically different from what their parents wanted, they could become incredibly successful and even well liked in a whole different sphere.

Most of all, for folks who could see how much their parents adored one another but never felt like that love extended to them, there is something profound in the way Kirk looks at Spock like he hangs the stars in the sky. He's a source of hope that even if you grew up as your family's ugly duckling, if you get out from under their influence you can find someone who will perceive you as a swan.

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No one asked but I'm bored

Star Trek: The Original Series = 宇宙大作戦(うちゅうだいさくせん) - uchū daisakusen. Space Operation

Star Trek (franchise) = スタートレック (sutātorekku)

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Riddle me this, Batman: if Kirk and Spock weren't queer coded then why were they straightwashed

The very fact that every TOS reboot is afraid to depict the closeness between Kirk and Spock in the same way it was depicted originally is a devastating reinforcement of how gay that shit was