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Neither Tom nor Harry seem like they'd ever be interested in Sherlock Holmes but if they were, Tom is the Watson to Harry's Sherlock without a doubt in my mind. Tom may not like it, but it's true. Harry's doing all the work and Tom is following him around writing dubious, heavily biased truths about him while ignoring that he has a wife.
i get all the star trek girlies. i get it now. im watching the original series for the first time, and the heavens above me literally just opened up. it was crazy. mr. spock beamed down and told me he's the greatest character ever made. did this happen to anyone else. im sorry i ever doubted your vision guys he's the best
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
I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.
When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.
Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.
What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.
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DC comics' first Next Gen miniseries was going off of the "Encounter at Farpoint" script, the series bible and some publicity photos. So they filled in a LOT of gaps themselves with interesting results...
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The 1st time I watched all of tos Turnabout Intruder was my favorite episode. Despite the pretty intense sexism and crazy shatner acting, I just find the idea really compelling.
at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:
like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"
and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.
This is fabulous! Of course he’s texting. He’s posting that shit across the actual universe.
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It's not like I don't appreciate their efforts but I wish Paramount would release other O'brien related merch cuz I'm tired of using all my paychecks to buy cement
It must be strange to be a Paramount executive and know that lots of people seem to really like Star Trek, but have No Idea why.
nobody in the world has correct kirk characterization its very hard for me some people want him to be a womanizer action star some people imagine hes a feminist uwu softboy and both cause me severe harm physical emotional harm it burns the eyes and the minds anyways kirk really wants to be earnestly gifted by a random lieutenant a #1 boss coffee mug he hates drugs and is literally miserable when people are having fun without him but he like really really badly wants to be the favorite student teacher for a group of unruly high school students and gets visibly crestfallen when hes correctly identified as a loser stick in the mud his only friends work for him hes constantly having the worst day of his life because of people who are mildly annoying he was the most dedicated member of starfleet academy's first ever improv troupe and has tried to figure out how to apply these skills to every single problem he ever encounters again everyone really really really needs to remember hes deeply lame and embarrassing
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so i know that people don't want to soften garaks edges just bc hes a popular character but i do think that people tend to somewhat over correct when it comes to garaks actual beliefs. because yes obviously he was in the space KGB and is a nationalist and was shitty about the occupation at that conference he went to, but there is also evidence that he is not actually for a fascist cardassia or even the obsidian order.
right away in profit and loss in season 2, he at first goes to take the opportunity to turn in the political dissidents to curry favor with central command but eventually chooses instead to help free them, citing his love for cardassia as the reason why. i don't know why people label that as him just saying "for cardassia" with no actual meaning behind it because the meaning there is very clear. he does actually think the military should not have as much power as it does and thinks natima lang's escaping is worth the risk to himself of him being caught by the federation or central command letting her escape.
then there's also the wire. we obviously don't know exactly what he did. but we know that he hates himself for his work in the order. he spits the story about killing the escapees out at bashir because he wants bashir to let him die. he thinks it means he deserves to die. feeling guilty doesn't absolve him of like. killing people. but he does see the violence he commited as actually wrong, unlike dukat who sees the violence of the occupation as good and righteous.
then theres "second skin" where his contacts inform him that the obsidian order has kira and he just. tells bashir. without asking for anything in return and exposing himself to be forced to help by sisko. he has no reason to do that other than. to help kira. even though it put him in danger and in direct opposition to the order.
I also think of that scene where rusot pulls a phaser on kira and garak defends her and rusot is like "you wouldn't kill one of you own people for a bajoran woman" and garak replies "how little you understand me"
then of course you have the scene with kira and damar where she says "yeah damar, what kind of people give those orders?" and he tells her that she was right to say it because "if damar is the man to lead a new cardassia... if he is the man we hope him to be then his pain will make him more receptive." like this says a lot about what garak wants to see cardassia become
and garak will argue his aggressively nationalist perspective to bashir and mock his federation optimism... but that's also what he likes about bashir. he wants to hear bashir push back against the official state sanctioned narrative and argue that there is reason for hope.
to me garak is someone who can conceive in the abstract that he would want a different kind of cardassia but he has been so smothered by tain and the order at every step of his life that he can't believe a non-fascist cardassia is feasible... but he wants to be convinced and he does have an idealist side that he gives into
What I love about Threshold is it’s a Tom Paris Daddy Issues episode, and at the end he isn’t even upset that his own children got left behind. Gotta love unaware men continuing the cycle.
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It's oddly cute that Leonard thinks of Spock as a part of himself but also a whole like actual living being
