[agoddamn]

I love relationships where the two people just mercilessly, RELENTLESSLY drag one another but they are so often tragically misunderstood as bullying/harassment.

Like, you can tell that more recent iterations of Star Trek have backed off on this aspect of Spock and McCoy for fear of looking racist--and to be fair, 1967 did not have the greatest awareness of microaggressions. But McCoy wasn't calling Spock a hobgoblin because he thinks Vulcans are lesser, he's doing so because Spock just called him a witch!

The shit they say to each other is wildly out of touch with reality when you actually stop and listen to it. Spock calls him a witch doctor making potions and shaking rattles and implies that he regularly kills patients.

Their insults should be updated for the modern day but c'mon, let these guys drag each other with the most absolutely unreal accusations.

[agoddamn]

In fact I think the reluctance of post-Roddenberry writers to accept that Spock was just being a big fat bitch is why modern Spock is so dull.

Spock has self-awareness. Spock always had self-awareness. Spock is a scientist; do you know how ridiculous it is for a scientist to sneer at chemistry and biology?

Spock knows it's ridiculous! Spock does not actually scoff at the existence of chemistry and biology! Spock is linking McCoy's emotionally-driven habits to archaic, apocryphal practices solely because he knows this annoys McCoy.

Why is McCoy's nickname "Bones"? It comes from "Sawbones", a Civil War-era slang for surgeon, because McCoy has a morbid fascination with the history of medicine. McCoy collects antique medical equipment. He's disgusted by how brutal and ineffective medical treatments used to be.

This is why Spock calls him a witch doctor: old and spurious medicine is McCoy's specific pet peeve.

[a-most-beloved-fool]

Leonard Nimoy as a person exudes such an aura of elegance that trekkies ROUTINELY forget that Spock is the clumsiest motherfucker on that whole damn ship, zero competition. Have we as a nation already forgotten about that time he accidentally alerted the Romulans to the Enterprise's location by tripping and landing on his console?? My boy is tottering about like a baby deer who doesn't know how to use his legs yet at every hour of the day!

fics be like: Spock stepped gracefully from the shuttle, moving with careful precision. Not a single speck of dust dared to mar that flawless Vulcan composure.

meanwhile, Spock:

[self-made-purgatories]

tags from @gunstreet :

[self-made-purgatories]

I did literally nothing to deserve this honor, just preserved @gunstreet's delightful tags on @a-most-beloved-fool's brilliant post, but I'm thrilled to ride both of your coattails all the way to @dduane's orbit!

[glina197]

This pon farr rq still remains my fav piece of them

[captbexx]

Love is in the air...

Quark & Grilka 🔥

[deep-space-9000]

Star Trek conventions are so funny. After I got an autograph from somebody, I went to an empty table nearby so I could set my stuff down for a second while I put my autograph in a protective sleeve, and I hear somebody yell at Ethan Peck (whose table is across from the empty table) "HEY HOT SPOCK!" and I turn around because I want to know who the fuck just said that. And it was Jonathan Frakes.

[garak-pussy-indulgence]

My friend was getting an autograph from Frakes and chatting with him about Adventure Time when I noticed some guy had pushed in front of them and started trying to get him to sign something else first.

That some guy was Robert Picardo.

Apparently he was explaining that they're all signing this ship model for charity, and Shatner had signed it too.

Frakes leaned back in his chair thoughtfully and said "Shatner.... I keep hearing that name, was he on Star Trek?"

And then all three of them got to explore their theories on who this Shatner guy could possibly be.

[gunstreet]

I have not been watching this season of SNW but this week I have blasted my way through The Vulcan Academy Murders and let me say everything about Vulcans in this book is 100 times more canon to me than whatever the fuck is going in that show. Even as a certified Sarek hater I must reluctantly admit that he is kind of a boss in this book who deserves cred for being like ‘no, my son, the bond was inadequate because she was a bitch and you are homosexual, being half human has nothing to do with it’

[tinsnip]

Yessss Jean Lorrah. I love this version of Vulcan.

[jennelikejennay]

I'm reading the scriptwriters' guide for TOS and it's cracking me up in many places. It's so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.

First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?

Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!

The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.

For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!

No saluting! Yes optimism!

There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!

Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."

And to wrap up:

[smallblueandloud]

here's a link to something that appears to be the series bible

[tprings-hair]

some backstory about spock getting into the academy and his parents, taken from vulcan's glory by dc fontana. the star trek novels are not technically canon, but fontana was one of the writers on the show and helped develop the world and characters.

[thespianwordnerd]

"Spirk queerbait is so back-" gently grabs your shoulders. Listen. This pairing is over 60 years old. The concept of queerbaiting is younger than they are. They have survived on not-so-subtext and people's imaginations for so long that even if it was "canon" by our standards it would never live up to expectations. We are lucky to have our choice of queer representation on tv now but let's not forget how we got here. They were written as inseparable from the start and they belong together in a way that transcends any one series, timeline or simple definition of platonic or romantic. Slash fiction started because of them. How "explicit" do they have to be for all that history to mean something. No matter how many women they make Spock kiss he and Jim are bonded for life and some of this is less queerbaiting and more simply honouring a dynamic that's been established since the 1960s. They've always been more than the sum of their parts and thats why they've survived while the context and expectations of queer representation changed around them. That's why they're so real to us and isn't that what matters, really?

[animentality]

[animentality]

[sioltach]

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

[wizardshark]

This isn't even a shit post that actually happened

[rosenkranz-does-things]

have Kira and Dax while I'm navigating the second half of season 2. inspo under the cut

[possumtion]

Good Morning ☀️

[anghraine]

It's silly, but one of my favorite Kirk/Spock things is that they are clearly very much more on each other's wavelength intellectually than most others are, but—

There are so many scenes in which everyone else is baffled or missing something important that Spock or Kirk see in the other's behavior. Probably the peak moment for this is Spock, and Spock alone, realizing in "Arena" that Kirk has the raw materials to make gunpowder just as Kirk himself realizes it. So you get Spock murmuring "good, good...yes...yes..." right there on the bridge as his beloved starts reinventing the bazooka (pretty sure this counts as sex for him), but McCoy and the bridge crew are completely confused about what they're seeing. And there are plenty of moments of this kind of half-unspoken mutual brilliance while their co-workers wish they'd just use their words.

However. The important counterpoint to this is that Kirk and Spock each possess the special ability to instantly incinerate entire neuron paths in each other's brains and become 10x stupider around each other, also. Spock barges into Kirk's quarters in "The Enemy Within" without explanation, sees his naked chest, and his higher functions crumble into ash on the spot; when he regains the power of speech, he asks the baffled Kirk what he can do for him as if this somehow explains what he's doing there, and Kirk is just confused but pleased, and smiles enough that Spock's gay awakening visibly burns through even more neural circuits until he runs away.

And Kirk himself doesn't need to see skin to completely lose track of what he was even talking about because Spock did a thing. For instance, the scene when Kirk looks at Spock with flirty adoration at the end of "A Taste of Armageddon" and bats his eyelashes and says, "Why, Mr. Spock, you almost make me believe in miracles"—yes, it's extremely gay, but I feel it's important to understand the immediate context is a general conversation on the bridge about the horrors of war. But then Spock raised his brows and ambiguously complimented him, so Kirk's entire cognitive process melted into Spock Spock Spock Spock. In S3, Spock sits down beside Kirk to tenderly watch him sleep, without appearing to consider that anyone (like say the empath standing right by them) would notice, and then poorly fakes looking at tricorder readings when said empath picks on his emotions. Surely that will fool her psychic powers! (It doesn't.) Kirk, often a master of performance and theatricality, has to be physically held back from trying to singlehandedly maul a Klingon while in disguise and surrounded by an occupying Klingon force because one guy slightly shoved Spock.

They're a brilliant and wildly successful command team together and they are also so incredibly stupid about each other, it's beautiful

[kieumy-archive]

[self-made-purgatories]

holy shit @captainjimothy your tags are poetry

here let me try:

he exhales his name like a breath he’s been holding for years upon years

he says it like the word itself is more beautiful than the sound of the silver birds against the sky

he says it like a solemn vow, like a terminal secret, like the unspellable words spilling from a lover’s mouth in the moments when the body becomes one with infinity

he says it like the unspeakable name of a jealous ancient god; he knows if he says it out loud he will belong to him forever, but he says it anyway. he says it twice. it makes no difference. he is already his, forever.

[missanthropicprinciple]

omg I did not notice this before but the teeeeny tiny exhale Spock makes after he looks at Kirk

[radicalbears]

Everyone here needs to read the novelization for this movie- it’s everything you guys described but also somehow MORE insane

[cleevitus]

I think spock sleeps like hes been shot