thinking about how in 'galileo seven' spock is absolutely adamant to ensure that they don't kill the spear guys despite them posing an active lethal threat to both him and his crew, not to mention they already killed one person. and then how in 'devil in the dark' spock spends half the episode demanding and risking mutiny to ensure they don't kill the horta despite it killing 50+ people. and then how kirk reveals he's standing face-to-face with it and spock without HESITATION
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Thanks to this beautiful post from @peridotsarelongterm and @cursedtrekedits, I bring you Mother Horta's disco hit, "No Kill I!"
I’m made of silicon, I am petrified
I will protect the children, I remain right by their side
And I have spent so many nights thinking how you did us wrong
And I grew strong
I learned to vaporize your throng
Because you’re here
From outer space
I just crawled in to find you looting all our pergium in haste
I should have melted all the rock, I should have made sure that you’d flee
If I’d have known for just one second that you’d hurt my kids and me
Go on now, go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
Because I’ll liquidate the floor
Weren’t you the one who broke my eggs and made me cry?
You think I’d crumble
You think I’m just a pizza pie?
Oh no kill I, I must survive
For as long as Horta babies hatch you know I’ll stay alive
I’ve got all my life to live
My digestion’s corrosive
So no kill I
I will survive
Hey, hey
It took all the strength I had when you zapped my hump
After I’d stolen your reactor’s circulation pump
Into the Chamber of the Ages, not to hide myself away
And now you say
That you can cure my rainy day
And you see me
Somebody new
I like your Vulcan ears but I am not in love with you
The end of things cannot begin, tomorrow’s vault contains the key
If you break hundreds of my eggs then of your men I’ll burn fifty
Go on now, go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now
Or I’ll irradiate your core
Weren’t you the one who tried to meld and shouted “pain!”
Think I’m a devil
I’ve got a heart and bigger brain
Oh no kill I, I will survive
You may see a big lasagna, I’ll get pasta you to strive
Got eternity to birth, I’m not questioning my worth
So no kill I
I will survive…
Oh…
Okay, you’ll stay
We’ll make a deal
You’ll take the minerals
That we don’t need to make a meal
I’m dancing even though you cannot see my feet
Now that your doctor
Healed me with some concrete
You no kill I, I did survive
And we taught a moral lesson through the magic of sci-fi
Differences don’t mean wrong, that’s the Mother Horta’s song
So no kill I
I will survive
No kill I!
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Procyon lorica trivides fayadii is a well known Daukokuan animal, a fairly intelligent nocturnal gatherer and burrower like the racoon, but with three eyes. It takes well to captivity, but recent experience suggests it can react badly to consumption of the plant Deep Ginger, quickly becoming addicted and morphing into a much larger, ravenous form. (AC Farley, from "Devil in the Dark," Pete Rogan's scenario for the sci-fi RPG 2300 AD, the second edition of Traveller: 2300, in GDW's Challenger magazine 36, 1988)
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Spock in Devil in the Dark: idk captain I feel like we should keep this thing alive :/ I know it's dangerous but imagine the scientific opportunity of studying such unique life :/ pleaseee
Spock when the horta comes within 20 feet of Kirk: KILL IT CAPTAIN KILL IT NOW
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"Captain? Captain are you alright? Captain?! JIM?!" *Sprints towards his last known location*
Spock's reaction to an injured Him my beloved
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31 Days of Horror: Day 21 - Devil in the Dark
Pretty sure this gif isn't from the movie.
It's slow, it's about estranged siblings and it has way more questions than answers. I don't think it was good enough to leave that many open questions.
It ends right when it could have gotten good. Idk what was even happening besides two brothers who had daddy issues.
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You know how the losing side of the Supreme Court publishes a dissent for each case? I wonder if Spock and McCoy do this in their collaborative papers...
Spock publishing an addendum to Emergency Tissue Regrowth in Silicon Cycle Life Forms saying "this is why Dr. McCoy's solution, while working perfectly in practice, is illogical in theory"
Bones dissenting in On the Study and Destruction of Massive Single-Celled Organisms like "Spock was right in the end but here's why I'm still mad about it"
Jim: How can you work closely together, solve the problem, come to the same conclusion, and still dissent?
Bones: just watch us
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