This is my Emotional Support Em-dash—

Avid Maker, Exhausted Writer, TOS Trekkie, 501st Legion Trooper, Chronic Geek, Tarantula Enthusiast!

[alexprime]

My (ongoing) Star Trek: The Original Series display!

[vvargamora]

Well the science officers are trained in being a bitch, of that we can all be sure...

[gunstreet]

“they’re only standing that close because of the aspect ratio” well in their case it’s also because they are showing us that the characters are in love and want to kiss. thanks

[sanity-assasin]

this scene is definitely something when slowed down

[sanity-assasin]

this tos screenshot conveys exactly how life has been feeling lately

[trek-tracks]

Jim: there have been several murders and it’s being done by a man possessed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper. I think we've killed him.

Bones, high on the drugs Jim made him take:

(source)

[spirkbitch]

my favorite canon aspect of Spocks character is that he’s a liar

as long as he can kinda logically justify it, he’s always lying his ass off

[tomatopine]

pretty sure this is how it happened

[kylieminvogue]

"STAR TREK" S1E23 - "A Taste of Armageddon"

[reject-tiefling]

I think this is the soggiest Jim I’ve ever made

[thekidthesuperkid]

The problem with modern Trek is that there just aren't enough plotlines where kirk yells at the antagonist about how they suck because they have no love or compassion and then he goes back home to his ship & has a little philosophical debate with his friends while making heart eyes at spock

[lavenderprose]

Sometimes when I think too much about Spock I black out and wake up six days later in Alamogordo New Mexico with nothing but some blue eyeshadow and a seventeen page long manifesto about how INSANE it is that he was born. The process of his gestation is already insane by itself but it gets even more mind boggling when you contextualize it with what Spock DOES. I would fucking lose it if I was Kirk and I found out that the guy I've been dragging into the Vast Unknown for five years was a miracle of science. Amanda casually explains the multiple rounds of genetic manipulation Spock had to go through just to survive utero. Kirk sits there sinking down in his chair thinking about all the times Spock almost died.

Not to mention the t'hy'la of it all. Spock, a child of two worlds, whose parents were born under separate suns, whose two points of genetic ancestry are so disparate that he literally could not have been born less than 100 years ago. Jim Kirk, Iowa farm boy who looked up at the stars and KNEW they were talking to him, who didn't know soul mates were real until he was rolling on the hot sands of Vulcan with a man who shouldn't exist. The entire histories of two planets and cultures coincided just perfectly for one man to exist, and that one man belongs inexplicably to Jim Kirk.

No wonder Kirk looks at Spock like every single star in the galaxy has his name on it.

[thylaforever]

[affixjoy]

[nic-the-rat]

star trek tos solo incorrect quotes overflow. i made these but they’re just solos i didnt know what to do with. i love them all regardless. you may notice the lack of jim, that’s because he got his own post. why? because i love him. sorry about it. i hope you enjoy, sponers ‼️

[guccixcucci]

[guccixcucci]

[jebbyfwish]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[junefiress]

im no longer warning people about the sixties sfx in tos instead grabbing them by the shoulders and screaming there are aliens made of bubble wrap and latex and so much glitter. most of the episodes are blatantly filmed in southern california or three rotating sets featuring either pink orange or blue rocks. people jump off walls and pirouette when they get "punched". the ship beeps. a lot. too much for realism. spock goes into heat. dont worry about it. the point is there is no BUT. im not going to say "its very silly but its fun" ENOUGH! it's silly AND it's fun!!!!you will learn to love it all because when was the last time you looked at bubble wrap and a back garden and saw another world? remember how much fun it was? do you want to try again?!?!! do you want to play!!!!

[alexprime]

The amount of utterly shameless camp in TOS is something not a single other entry in the Trek franchise has ever been able to replicate. Obviously-styrofoam boulders, a small dog dressed in a teeny alien costume, every vivid-colored and strangely-cut jumpsuit known to mankind and then some, everything glitters including things that shouldn't glitter, random Abraham Lincoln, aliens are just Some Dudes with dark eyeshadow patchily smeared all over their faces... ... and it somehow became one of the more influential shows in the history of television. Some of those episodes, with the camp, and the cheese, and the styrofoam, and the glitter, and the jumpsuits, manage to touch on social topics that were not only incredibly relevant to the time they aired, but (unfortunately) continue to be extremely relevant to this day. Some lines hit like a goddamn bullet, and some are casual fun. Some feel like a gut punch, and some are lighthearted and amusing. And the thing is, on first watch, you will never know which episode will have what. You go into an episode and there's glitter and nonsensical costumes and everyone's quoting Shakespeare, and you think, 'oh, this is gonna be a silly one', and then boom, you've got an episode about eugenics, genocide, PTSD, and fanatical serial-killing. You start an episode and everyone's acting like an idiot, and Spock's laughing and swinging in trees and locking lips with some jumpsuited lady, and you're like, oh-ho, that's hilarious— and then you get Kirk antagonizing Spock with horrible insults, and Spock ultimately revealing that being drugged was the first time he's ever felt happiness and it's just a slap to the face. TOS is stunning social commentary and deep, emotional topics dressed as mindless, silly campiness, and it is utterly unapologetic about it.