#star trek tmp

[the-cosmic-creature]

falling back into spirk/tos brainrot after rewatching the motion picture

[tybarious-ii]

[justveeing]

lay down your sweet and weary head night is falling you have come to journey's end

[vildo]

This scene is brilliant, because you can see how desperately Jim is trying to get Spock to show an ounce of affection, and then he is frustrated of something he should not have expected of Spock in the first place. Not that he blames Spock, yet he is sure this is anything to either of them but some mutual advantage; his tone softens gradually, because he doesn’t want Spock to be made to do or say anything for his sake, something only Jim wishes to hear. It’s been a while, and here they are, both very well aware of the fact that Spock chose to abandon Kolinahr, which gives Jim every right to demand attention from Spock regardless of how little that might be. Perhaps it is too much to ask of him anyways, and he is making peace with it knowing this is how Spock has always been. Spock knows. This is what’s killing Jim. Is there anything else? No. Not unless he wants it to be. He’s here and that’s all that matters, and yet Jim can’t shake the feeling that Spock is deliberately holding back what he’s really feeling at the moment. They’ve spent too long together and have been too close to each other than for him not to notice Spock is shutting him out. And even so, he still chooses to be patient. The last thing he wants is to push it. He longs for Spock, yet selflessly so. He also knows that this is just as hard on Spock as it is on him.

[trek-tracks]

Bones:

[major-comet]

the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was

which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.

did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?

why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?

only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways

i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.

but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet

[not-equippedforthis]

:]]

[bonesibegyou]

I would really like to have words with whomever designed McCoy's uniform for TMP. I cannot hear a word this man says because his goddamn CLEAVAGE is DISTRACTING. Sir is this really workplace appropriate attire I would really like to know

[your-name-is-jim]

Carrying your unconscious Vulcan to a safer place, always.

Mirrorverse Bonus:

[dig-jules]

Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[the-cosmic-creature]

Star Trek TMP outfits were so cunty. v necks, short little t shirt sleeves, all in various muted colors. i love it.

i also think aged kirk is so cute i love him sm

[tybarious-ii]

Link

[spirk-trek]

Daring Attempt Fanzine | Caren Parnes, 1986

[trek-tracks]

Starfleet Therapist: So what do we do when our ex won't speak to us

Kirk: Draft them out of retirement back into military service under my command

Starfleet therapist: nO

(this is a joke, obviously. Kirk would never go to therapy)

[an-actual-floof]

love hearing people on tumblr talk about Star Trek: The Motion Picture cuz every critical source I’ve read has been like “this movie was an outrageous disaster and did terrible at the box office, everyone pretends it didn’t even happen. don’t even look at it”

And then ppl on here will be like “i thought it was neat :)”

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner - Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)