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Star Trek TOS + Tumblr Text Posts [Part 9/?]

link to Part 8

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Star Trek TOS + Tumblr Text Posts [Part 10/?]

link to Part 9

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Spock does not dance. However, at a party aboard the Enterprise, he suddenly realises that he quite enjoys watching other people dance. Certain other people, at least...

@mcspirkevents Day 18: Oblivious Pining

(Jim and Bones are doing the twist because it's always the 1960s in space.)

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Teasing Spock is how they know everyone made it home safe

And on this occasion, they weren't even misleading him...

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DOUGLAS: Could you, for instance, get a hundred otters on board Gerti?

MARTIN: Yes, I reckon you could.

DOUGLAS: And is it a jam-packed RSPCA-nightmare of a plane, or are the otters lounging in relative comfort?

MARTIN: Well, OK, there’s, er, there’s sixteen seats, so, say, two to a seat.

DOUGLAS: They’re good friends, these otters?

MARTIN: Let’s hope so. Then one in each overhead compartment ...

DOUGLAS: Always remembering to open them with care because otters may have shifted during the flight.

ARTHUR: And, er, one under each seat?

DOUGLAS: Yes! Good thinking.

MARTIN: But that’s where the lifejackets are.

DOUGLAS: That’s all right – otters can swim.

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Snoopadoop the cockapoo, noblest of hounds

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@heraldecember Prompt: Leopard

This prompt made me think of Bagheera the panther, so this shield refers to the moment at the very end of The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Bagheera buys Mowgli's freedom back by slaying a bull, and he says this line. It's one of the very few scenes in books that have actually made me cry.

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@heraldecember Prompt: Feast

Well, it had to be Obelix for this prompt!