#whom gods destroy

[wwillywonka]

SPOCK | Whom Gods Destroy

[undead-cat-in-space]

Me while watching Star Trek:

[purple-iris]

Watching a Star Trek TOS episode like:

Me: Where is Spock?

Jim, moments later: Where is Spock?!

Me: You're asking the real questions now jimmy boy

[favvn]

letting the days go by (this time with tribbles!)

[vildo]

That’s what I heard

[discoonthegrass]

Whom Gods Destroy: Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

Plato’s Stepchildren: After Dr. McCoy helps the leader of a planet populated by people with powerful psionic abilities, they decide to force him to stay by torturing his comrades until he submits.

[frozen-banana-guacamole]

Marta...

Star Trek TOS, Whom Gods Destroy (1968).

[acabspocky]

Jim: "...Mr. Spock and me brothers."

Garth: "Mr. Spock, do you consider Capt. Kirk and yourself brothers?"

Spock: shitshitshit I can't lie. Shit. Fuck. can't say I'm screwing my CO. think, Spock, THINK. "Capt. Kirk speaks somewhat figuratively and with undue emotion; however, what he says is logical, and I do, in fact, agree with it." nailed it.

[trek-tracks]

Spock has no patience for this nonsense

[wwillywonka]

this deserves to be its own post

[marlinspirkhall]

TOS Season 3, Episode 14: Whom Gods Destroy

[ID] Garth: Show me you pussy. Kirk responds with a photo of Spock looking stern and holding a black cat. [End ID]

If Star Trek had Grindr [15/17]

[lithiumseven]

“Whom Gods Destroy” really made Kirk, kicked to the ground, listen to his hero shout at him that he would succeed where governor Kodos of Tarsus IV had failed. They really did that

[potionflavored]

season 3 episode 14 Star Trek original series episode Whom Gods Destroy is sooooo good for flamboyantly homosexual Spock moments

[aspiringnexu]

'Whom Gods Destroy' or 'the episode where I laughed about that Andorian's fashion sense for far too fucking long'.

I mean, did the writers gather together and decide that the only way they could convince the audience that these people are 'crazy' was to dress them up like they raided a children's pantomime? Which genius decided to give the Andorian a bright pink feather boa?? Where did he get a feather boa? Do the replicators have the pattern for feather boas???

[chernobog13]

"You've got pointy ears. I like that in a man."

Star Trek: The Original Series, Season Three, Episode #14 Whom Gods Destroy.

This, according to my faulty memory, is the second appearance of Andorians and Tellarites (two of the founding members of the Federation, along with Humans and Vulcans) in the series.

The Andorian (Richard Geary) still has his distinctive antennae attached at the back of his head. However, the Tellarite (Gary Downey) looks more like a fat guy with bushy eyebrows and a flattened nose. Gone is the facial prosthesis that covered the eyes and upper half of the face, used in the episode Journey To Babel (where both species first appeared), that gave Tellarites their distinctive porcine appearance, as seen below:

The actors playing the Tellarites in Journey To Babel had trouble seeing the other actors and had to tilt their heads back to make sure they were delivering their lines to the right person. Although unplanned, the head tilt added just the right amount of arrogance to their performances, which was perfect for Tellarites.

I don't know if the prosthesis was abandoned in Whom Gods Destroy in order for Downey to be able to see better (he was involved in a few action scenes); whether old ones were unusable and the make-up team didn't have the time to construct a new one; or the production simply didn't have the budget for it. I suspect it was a combination of the second and third reasons.

Remember, Season Three of ST:TOS was never supposed to happen: NBC had cancelled the show with the second season. It was only after the unprecedented fan campaign to save the show that NBC brought it back. However, with a greatly reduced budget of $175,000 per episode, down $10,000 an episode from Season Two. This was in 1968-1969 money, so that was a lot of moolah to have to do without.

So my theory, and I'm sticking to it, is: the reason the Tellarite doesn't look like a Tellarite in Whom Gods Destroy is because the make-up budget was instead spent painting Batgirl green.