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K'Ehleyr | Star Trek: The Next Generation | 4.07 "Reunion"
Genuinely I think the funniest way that Spirk could go canon in a woke TOS reboot is to make their plausible deniability into a Contientious Bit. They're not queerbaiting the audience they are straightbaiting Starfleet Command.
There is clearly something Off(tm) with how they are about each other: always slightly more familiar than is professional, always taking shore leave together, always single no women in their lives... Season long subplot where the Bad Admiral is trying to bust them on fraternization violations and is frustrated he can't pin anything on them. The quid-pro-quo allegations are washing off Jim like water off a duck's back. Comedy b-plot where Jim has to convince the aliens of the week that Spock isn't his mate before it winds up in the official report. There are scene cuts that open on the two of them in obviously compromising positions and its completely ignored. Journey to Babel redux that's more or less just the plot of The Birdcage.
It's a running gag and the audience is in on it. They're never confirmed explicitly but the homophobic audience members who still want to deny it are getting dogged on tongue-in-cheek every time the admiralty is so obviously being duped by the act. Put me in the writers room coach I have something to say.
the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore
in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course
when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance
mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk
Hang on I'm not done with bad parenting in trek and how well it shines a light on the limitations of the 'utopian' future trek presents. There are a lot of bad parents in the trek universe, which at first seemed at odds to me with the more supposedly enlightened future trek of the federation. But the more I think of it the more I realise this pattern of bad parenting is actually a product of federation society, not an aberration.
While federation worlds are post-scarcity, they are not post-consumerism. While people don't need money, they still have a lot of personal property. They actually have a much more hyper-consumerist society than we have today because they can produce and discard things so much more quickly without any of the environmental, cost, or labour implications. Imagine how fast fast fashion would be if you could dream up an outfit every morning, it was created without destroying the planet or using child labour, and you didn't even have to store it because you could just recycle it at the end of the day.
This is of course the utopia that American TV writers would dream up. While there are socialist ideals in trek, it's very much a pipe dream of having your cake and eating it too - you stop inequality and destroying the planet but don't have to sacrifice any of your consumerist comfort or convenience.
Of course, this is a society that still has the nuclear family. Small family units who never want for anything - people could be full-time parents, or work if they choose to. Obviously we see a lot of outliers as we see the people who choose to leave paradise but I think it still represents the wider societal issues.
The nuclear family as a model often enables abuse as it gives parents a lot of power over children. It's also a model where children are effectively the property of their parents. So in a hyper-consumerist world where most property is used up and then discarded the second it is even remotely inconvenient, there is even more cultural potential for mistreatment than in our world.
You're used to using things up and discarding them with zero consequences (personal, financial, global) and all of a sudden you have a thing that culturally belongs to you, but you can't just discard it? It will have feelings and perspectives and rely on you. It will be, worst of all, imperfect. And it's yours, forever.
Even Harry Kim, who has ostensibly kind and loving parents, feels he has to earn their love. How could his parents love their (emphasis on possessive pronoun) so much if he wasn't perfect?
How do you even handle that? It's a miracle star trek characters aren't more fucked up.
In the recent past, women were told by society that they could have a fulfilling relationship or a career, but not both. There’s been a push to “have it all!” more recently, of course, but that’s not what this post is about. This post is about how James T. Kirk occupies the unique position of a male character who had to choose one or the other. There are few male characters other than him who are genuinely and unabashedly hopeless romantics who want to settle down but aren’t allowed to by the narrative. And if you view The Search for Spock as a romantic drama, then Kirk also kind of fulfills the typical female character trope of “learning that romantic love is actually more important than a career.”
As you can see, Captain James T. Kirk’s arc mirrors many female romance protagonists, and he is therefore, textually, wife material. In this essay, I will—
R.I.P. James Darren 😭
James Darren, who starred in "Gidget," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "T.J. Hooker" and died Monday. He was 88.
See ya around, pallie...
This dialogue cure my soul a little bit.
Just want you guys to know that.
When Data learns about a new human custom he's like "wow life is such a rich tapestry I'm so pleased to participate in this social ritual with you and deepen our friendship (◡‿◡✿)", and when Odo learns about a new human custom he's like:
ID for op: a gif of Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development looking something up and down with a very unimpressed expression
ds9 crew: “guys we gotta stop the evil bad guys from the wormhole”
quark subplot:
Star Trek DS9 Q Blooper
Sisko[Avery Brooks]: Bring them back Q! Now!
Q[John De Lancie]: Or what? What! You'll ravish me!? No, it's not ravish I'm sorry...
Sisko[Avery Brooks]: I might.
sci fi is about one thing and one thing only.....actors throwing themselves around a room to simulate the ship being hit
Please bring this back I’m begging them to please bring this back it’s so fucking funny
STAR TREK - S3E10 Plato's Stepchildren
Once more for the right-wingers who don't understand Star Trek in the back
Whenever I hear someone complain that Star Trek is suddenly woke I laugh and laugh and laugh and
happy pride to this fucking thing susanna thompson does with her mouth
happy pride to this visible saliva that avery brooks decided to leave in the final cut of rejoined
people who are like "how dare they retcon Spock having a sister" are so weak. have you seen the show? Spock said "one of my ancestors married a human female" and it wasn't until a year later his best friends found out he was talking about his fucking parents, and even then he only reluctantly let it slip because they were in the room
i've never watched the search for spock but i get the gist
*Both of them checking their pockets as McCoy suffers somewhere offscreen as usual*