#765874

[wwillywonka]

hey so what the actual fuck

[kugelfische]

Before I die

I'd like to do something nice

Take my hand and I'll take you for a ride.

im sorry this is so rushed, my circulation was getting really bad again .

[pendragonsclotpole]

i wanna be perfectly clear that i felt nothing for the stark trek unification video besides contempt for the CGI and the potato quality of it on my phone, until i realized that lump on the bed was spock.

y’all idk what i was expecting when my friend sent me the link describing it as “destiel confirmed but for spirk” but i was not expecting the sweet bliss of two men irrevocably bound by destiny staring off into the sunset as they go towards death together

that’s when they got me, because spock fucking deserves nice things and to not die alone in a universe far from his own.

not to mention kirk’s own death in canon. i am officially headcannoning that kirk appeared to spock in his final moments via some weird magic with the nexus and then they went together peacefully.

also the fact that this was titled “unification” and not “reunification,” that’s very sweet, very mindful, very demure as they tear out my heart and remind me of the promise of spirk to see each other again across space and time.

but also, not to be ungrateful to the very clear amount of money by the cgi thrown at this. WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO GET THIS. and the fact that we’re all going so feral over two men holding hands staring off into the sunset without them ever saying an entire word. this was not in my 2024 bingo card

[stra-tek]

765874 Unification DEEP DIVE!

There's a lot to unpack on this little video, including lots not at all explained in it and only behind the scenes. Is it dreamy and ambiguous, or is there a solid background?

First of all, is Kirk dead and in heaven? Is he alive? A hologram? The answers are shown in the intro, prior 765874 videos and built from Easter Eggs in Picard season 3. Eagle-eyed viewers spotted Kirk's remains in the Section 31 Daystrom vault. The readout mentioned something called "Project Phoenix". James T. Kirk has been resurrected.

The park Kirk starts out in? It's not just any park. It's inside the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-J, just look at the Roddenberry Archive Ent-J interior. We're in the 26th century, that's why Saavik looks so old. And speaking of Saavik, the Roddenberry Archive say they consider the Vulcan's Heart novel canon. Which means Saavik is Spock's wife. And the Vulcan man next to her? That's Sorak, the son she had with Spock following the Pon Farr in Star Trek III, according to OTOY.

It gets weirder. The old man wearing a white TNG movie era dress uniform? He's credited as "Crusher". That's an elderly version of our time travelling Wesley, dressed as he was in Star Trek Nemesis.

This sinister character, who gives Kirk his badge back and takes him through time? Temporal soldier Yor, from Discovery 3.09. From the Kelvin timeline, he jumped forward in time and across timelines during the 30th century temporal wars, eventually resulting in sickness and an agonising death. Here he takes Kirk from the 26th century Enterprise-J to 23rd century New Vulcan in the Kelvin timeline.

But why was Kirk resurrected? Just to zip though time and be with Spock at his death?

And what role does Yeoman Colt (whose Starfleet serial number these shorts are named for) play? She's seen in all of them, even the start of this one in a Kelvin Universe uniform looking at Project Phoenix stuff. I guess time will tell...

[self-made-purgatories]

Hi, I'm new to the Spirkverse. I've been around less than two months but I have fallen SO HARD. And I'm always saying that I'm late to this fandom. How could I not be? This ship has been sailing for nearly 60 years.

But HOLY SHIT what a day to be a Spirk fan. I'm not late after all. Turns out I showed up just in time.

Happy Unification Day, everyone.

[daddyellis]

I see a lot of people talking about the hands but are we not going to talk about the eyebrow???? Spock's sultry raised eyebrow???? For Vulcans, to touch hands like that, its an expression of love. BUT Spock knows Kirk for the undeniable lady's man he always was and continued to be for all time, so that eyebrow wiggle to me--- that was so much of Spock saying 'i love you' in Kirk's language just as Kirk was saying 'i love you' in Spock's.

*kills self*

[yourlocalrandombisexual]

i finally sat down and watched the unification short. this fic flew out of me. it's not much but it's the dialogue that flew through my head as i watched. you can find the ao3 version here

i'll put the fic under the cut, i hope you enjoy it.

Jim Spock must’ve whispered it, but to Kirk it sounded like Spock was standing right next to him. 

He watches the younger versions of himself fade away and quickly makes his way through the mist. Spock needs him. He steps out onto a veranda and it suddenly strikes him that he’s in another universe. The universe Spock flew to all those years ago. 

He walks over and sits down on the edge of Spock’s bed. Spock immediately takes his hand. He doesn’t even have to look to confirm who it is, who’s come to him at the end. Finally Spock’s eyes find his and the bond, their bond, rouses from being dormant for over a century.

Not that they needed a bond to share their thoughts.

They had never needed words. 

Jim, we were supposed to have forever.

I know. 

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. 

I was always with you. 

I know. I felt you every day. 

I’m glad, t’hy'la.

How are you here?

I heard you. 

Even across universes? 

I’ll always hear you, Spock

[masutra-vedik]

Yeah, yeah, I watched the video.

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