#to rewatch TOS with me

[acommonanomaly]

I'm still getting lovely comments on my Spock/Kirk stories years later and it's really making me miss that fandom. It was my first and will always have a special place in my heart!

[kyurochurro]

"gentlemen i believe... we are lost."

(entering the new year with a stv drawing since im still on a st movie kick from the marathon my dad and i had HEHE >:D)

[gayspock]

i love it when a tv show has lows that are so low you're so ashamed to ever show it to anyone ever but then highs that melt your brain a bit, like, "good fucking god, this is genuinely such an astounding piece of craftmanship... my perception of the medium, and perhaps of myself, has been challenged/changed in 40 minutes" but you cant even express that to ppl without feeling like youre fucking deranged bc my god the lows .....

[lenievi]

I love this exchange so much, especially the way Spock is happy about it, and because there's a similar exchange in The Naked Time, it almost feels like an inside joke between them, even though it's literally the second scene they ever interacted in directly. (I also like how they chose Spock-McCoy banter to tell us about how Vulcan anatomy is different)

I will forever wonder why they showed that a Vulcan heart was on the left side TWICE and then they were like "btw the heart is where the liver is" in a dialogue

[spirkbitch]

these gifs i just made bring me a lot of joy so i thought i’d share

[diesoonandsuffer]

companion, do you love the man?

a parallel between this scene in ‘metamorphosis’ and kirk in ‘the search for spock’

[redroyalblues]

look ok the star wars fan thing is obviously already established but you’re telling me henry fox wouldn’t be a star trek fan/spirk shipper?… absolute dweeb henry fox? canonical queer historian henry fox? a sucker for optimism and hope in media henry fox? love of his life is just so captain kirk coded henry fox? SURE

[spocksjuul]

Kirk:angery Spock: unrepentant

[hubbaslubba]

^ im always saying this

[theunyieldingwind]

catch me forgetting every TOS episode title and just knowing them by things such as:

- this one had that spock storyline that i still think about to this day

- blessed mccoy storyline ep

- mccoy fights in this one and he looks cute when he fights and usually doesn't win which amuses me

- the one where kirk's ass looks really good

- they wear their dress uniforms this ep and i just like when they do that

- the one with the spirk moment that destroys me

[wandering-alien]

The Netflix star trek TOS episode descriptions are so funny. For example...

The way "Kirk's brother" was just completely thrown in, and "amoeba-like aliens" said so casually. Also, the second sentence literally describes the last third/quarter of the episode, why did you put that in the description?

[spongynova]

I LOVE how star trek tos is failing at heterosexuality.

I mean I look at this show and almost every het relationship is so weird, it just doesn't work there is no writing beside people's 'gender'.

But, these manly men's friendships look so very queer.

Like in mirror mirror, Marlena is obviously hot but since she's 'just' hot, her lack of characterisation makes her easy to forget (and this colorful dress when she is at the door, so camp).

On the other hand Bones softly puts his thumb on Kirk chin to erase a blood stain. And both Jims' first sentence or so are about Spock's beard. Tiz peak.

It's wonderful.

And don't get me wrong: I'm a sucker for well written friendships. I want these hands on the shoulder and waist (if people are ok with contact) and strong dialogue about their platonic feelings. And I'm sad about the possibility of being gay pushing away this kind of writing in today's shows (to be clear it's shitty queerphobia). But oh the sheer joy to see this spark of affection between same gender characters, I'll take these crumbs and cherish them in my little agender bi heart.

[youcouldbewonderful]

i just think they'd be friends

[aenslem]

he is just... they are just?? im - aAAAAAA

[favvn]

Okay, this 100% brainwormed madness because it is absolutely unnecessary. I am admitting it upfront, and I am saying it in earnest, not as a self-deprecating joke. But.

There's something about how Spock's pleading with T'Pau re-contextualizes their initial meeting. (Under a read more for images, long-winded typing, etc., I need to log off and read my silly 1000 page books and give my brain better enrichment sources.)

T'Pau looks like she initiates a mind meld on Spock or at least uses specific contact points to look into his mind to determine his current state in Pon Farr. She glances away from Spock to Kirk and McCoy after breaking contact and says, "Spock… are our ceremonies for outworlders?" Which, yeah. Kirk and McCoy are outsiders, no duh.

But later, when Spock--despite being deep in the blood fever and supposedly unable to talk much less care about anyone beyond the fever--tries to get T'Pau to reject Kirk as T'Pring's champion for the challenge, he says, "My friend… does not understand. He does not know. I will do what I must, T'Pau. But not with him. His blood does not burn. He is my friend." And like. I initially took it as "Kirk is an outsider, but he is dear to me. He is not a Vulcan. These customs mean nothing to him, nor does he know anything about them. The fever is not compelling him to do this, so don't allow him to go through with something that could kill him when it is unnecessary."

But pairing these two scenes side-by-side, knowing Theodore Sturgeon--master of subtext--wrote this episode (was he gay? Bi? I swear I read that somewhere, but Google is not yielding anything), knowing that this scene begins and ends with "my friend" (the repetition! bookend phrasing!) and that such a designation allows an outsider to be privy to Vulcan secrets….

My (brainwormed-fried) take is this: T'Pau sees the presence that Kirk takes in Spock's mind. Not only are they linked by their work but by a bond of what has repeatedly been termed friendship by Spock in the series ("When I feel friendship for you, I am ashamed"). This episode reveals what the term "friend" means for Vulcans, that it can supersede the boundaries separating Vulcans and non-Vulcans. T'Pau asking if their ceremonies are for outsiders can take a second meaning, namely, if it is Kirk who is to take part in the koon-ut-kal-if-fee, long before T'Pring initiates the challenge against Spock's betrothal/bond to her. (To say nothing of that phrasing! Consider an alternative: "Spock.... are our ceremonies to be seen by outworlders?" which, I assume, is the intent of the original phrasing, but taking it straight as the words are in the episode, however: "Spock.... are our ceremonies for outworlders?" What? Hello?? Ma'am???)

So, in this (brainwormed) context, Spock's pleading for Kirk takes on a new meaning--Spock doesn't want to undergo the ceremony or challenge with Kirk because he assumes Kirk doesn't feel the same way as he does about their relationship, having no blood fever to compel him and having a different human understanding for friendship. His pleading sounds like someone trying to keep an unrequited love secret.

Like. I'm saying those two got married in that fight, somehow performing the whole koon-ut-kal-if-fee in one go, and T'Pau agreed to it because she saw how over the damn moon Spock is for Kirk, but--due to some tradition, no doubt, to test the challenger's commitment--she gave Kirk multiple opportunities to leave and not take part. Kirk doesn't. He cares too much for Spock and. Well. Here we are.

[nashidakyouko]