#star trek the city on the edge of forever

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[forecast0ctopus]

moments before disaster but like. dont even worry about it

[cosmicyeen]

BRO????

THIS IS SO COOL?

I can't read old english but the second chapter is both a translation and notes on the translation/writing choices which i HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEYRE SO COOL

THE MEANINGS AND CHOICES IN TRANSLATION ARE GETTING TO ME

Also so many of them have these awesome explanations behind them and then there's this:

"The Old English word for “doctor”, læce, literally means “leech”, which he would hate being called so, so much that I immediately had to use it for him."

LIKE YEAH THATLL DO IT LMAO

GO CHECK IT OUT ITS INTERESTING AF

[kgxrv]

where would you estimate we belong, miss keeler?

you? at his side, as if you've always been there and always will

[trek-tracks]

him

[vulcan-spicetea]

SPIRK TOS: Soulmates

Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever/ Madeline Miller/ Emily Bronte/ Madeline Miller/ Anne Carson (translator)/ Madeline Miller/ Madeline Miller

Inspired by this post.

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[thali-lemmonpie]

WHOever thought of how to dress the Playmates™ Jim Kirk: plaid shirt action figure™...

I HOPE YOU GOT A RAISE *CHEF KISS* WASN'T EXPECTING THIS.

THIS. WAS. WORTH. EVERY. SINGLE. PESO.

[favvn]

In Amok Time, Spock says, "Captain, lock me away. I do not wish to be seen." And Kirk responds, "I'm trying to help you, Spock." And it's revealed he's taking Spock to Sickbay.

But, in the previous episode Operation: Annihilate, Spock breaks out of Sickbay only to be sedated, brought back, and restrained. Locked away, if you will. And it leads to Spock's, "Let me help," offering himself up as both possible sacrifice and test subject.

But! In the episode before that, The City on the Edge of Forever, we get the iconic exchange of:

Edith Keeler: Whatever it is, let me help.

Kirk: "Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."

Funny how certain phrases and events parallel or cycle back around between consecutive (by air date, not production code) episodes. Interesting. Fascinating, even. (I am fully aware of the caveat that my brain is seeking out patterns, I am lost in the Spirk sauce/soup/brainrot/whatever, etc.)

[reesespieces-andotherfood]

Edith: “ In the future, we will go to space in spaceships!”

Kirk and Spock, who are from the future and live on a spaceship:

[vildo]

Imma start collecting these like pokemon

[forecast0ctopus]

hat..

[bluesngolds]

watch where you’re grabbing your first officer, jim…

[trek-tracks]

he just wants to boop you

(with a necessary hypospray)

[skybson]

1x28 - The City on the Edge of Forever

[iamenits]