No Kirk Without Irk

Sefie 35 Trekkie Been Lurking after a break from creating Hoping to get back into some writing, eventually

[stargirl-and-potts]

I love how the first clear sign we get in the story of who Grace is is after he fails. Stratt lures him in by promising him a chance to prove his hypothesis, that life could evolve without water. It matters to him, a lot; he has a startle response to it being brought up, like she’s pressed a bruise. But when she asks again he is ready to assert it, still longing to be heard.

So when it turns out astrophage does need water, he crashes out, like he did when he was younger—throws things, shouts, deflates, and hides. Stratt assumes that’s all she can get out of him, and prepares to leave.

But then—he begs her to let him help anyway. For the world. For his kids. Even if he’s just one of hundreds of scientists, with no audience left. Even if it does nothing for his pride. That’s when we and Stratt realize that there is more to this guy than ego.

He isn’t stuck at the failure point. The patient man he’s been becoming in all the quiet years since he lit a match to his career, the gentle teacher who starts again year after year with a new set of young ones and learns who they are and what they need and how to make learning meaningful to them—the man who loves his kids and the world he’s been showing to them—that’s the man who’s ready for the job ahead. He understands devotion. He is ready to be brave. Love has made him brave.

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

Two eridians and their wet dog

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[mundayme]

[incaseyouart]

i love how this is one of the rare shots where grace is at peace, and it's because he's accepted that he's going home to rocky :3

[rosettyller]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[tendebill]

some attempts to draw grace from a while back :>

[nikoisme]

they're brainstorming

[theliteralbear]

Stained Glass Can of Sardines : Renske van Barschot

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[thepathlesstrekked]

To the surprise of absolutely fucking no one I am incapable of being normal about the space rock and his rescue sacrificial lamb.

[thefreakmeister]

me: isn’t it funny how captain kirk was supposed to be the sex appeal of star trek but it ended up being spock

my dad: i thought it was bones

me:

my dad: i thought bones was supposed to be the sex appeal

[blanc-ci]

I have a working theory that while yes, Kirk and Spock have their intentional and unintentional sex appeal going on, Bones was purposefully written to represent actually attainable/unrepressed sexuality.

Kirk is arguably hypersexual, or at least is fine with being perceived as such (him being considered a “womanizer” to such a large portion of the audience would likely be exactly how people in-universe see him too)

Spock being desirable was also introduced pretty early, and I think him being “weirdly sexy” was always the intent, and they just were surprised it worked so /well/

But the most important fact about both of their sexuality is that; they are completely emotionally unattainable, and do not have a healthy relationship with their sexuality AT ALL

On the OTHER hand, emotionally confident doctor big dick over there doesn’t have complicated mental illnesses about relationships. He is easily physical and easily emotional with just about everyone he interacts with (not exclusively in a sexual way) which makes him a way more grounded form of sex appeal than the cosmic, emotionally compromised situationship that’s happening right next to him.

[danzinora-switch]

Oooh, you right, you right, I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Kirk: the Yearner, the Romantic. He wants to love but CAN'T because of his duty to the ship! The Enterprise must always come first, no matter how much he might wish it otherwise. Any love he can/does get must happen in snatches: stolen moments, kisses, brief entanglements that leave both with just a taste of What Could Be, inevitably to end in a trail of broken hearts, Jim's the most broken of all. What a whirl. But no wonder he believes he'll die alone.

Spock: The Stoic, the Restrained. While Jim Kirk is like the breeze, snatching love when he can, this is the unmovable stone. He is above such petty feelings and attractions, yea, in fact, he has nooooo such feelings and attractions. The unmoving stone is now a challenge. Who can command the mountain to jump? Who can elicit a crack in its surface? Seeking love and relationship becomes secondary to seeking the victory of a response at all. And, the ultimate thrill, that the stone COULD, on rare occasion, be dared to move of its own accord, with all its years of repressed action and feeling exploding forth as a volcano: powerful, exhilarating, and dangerous. What risk. But what reward.

Both unattainable in their different ways, yet just as magnetic. And then...

McCoy: the Sensualist, the One in Love with Life itself. He is no force of nature. He is, however, unashamedly, unabashedly human. He has experienced the ecstasies, as well as the miseries, of love. He delights in the glorious failures as well as the glorious victories. It's all a part of being alive: the pain, the joy, and everything in between. We may only have each other, we may only have today, but that will not stop him from still fighting for tomorrow. He is just as flawed as anyone else and there's honestly to that, there's understanding and acknowledgement of regret, grief, the darkest side of yourself you don't want anyone to see, and yet here's this charming, compassionate, doctor who has walked many miles in similar shoes smiling and asking "well, how about a non-reconstituted meal and a drink?"

People will always be enraptured by tornados and volcanos. But the camaraderie of experience with another human being on this life plane is something we'll always come back to, as steady and grounding as a hug.

[omittedharpy]

this is something i'm struggling to articulate/reach a point with, bc the episode does make it very clear that ghemor was not a perfect person and kira's reaction is about her trauma rather than what he's done, but. ghemor was a legate in the cardassian military.

and while I don’t deny how important and admirable his work in the dissident movement was, it seems highly unlikely that a person could climb to such a high rank in an organization as brutal as the cardassian military without being complicit (at best) in those acts. but the episode only mentions his involvement in the kiessa monastery massacre as a young man.

and I think it probably makes sense that it's not included - it doesn't really fit with what the episode is trying to do, and there are other episodes (like things past) that explore that theme. and from a more watsonian perspective, maybe the rest of his military career wasn't related to the occupation (federation border wars or something), so kira isn't as interested

puts him in a similar boat as odo, I suppose. can’t be involved in a bad system without getting your hands dirty, even with the best of intentions.

[libraflyter]

The thing that I think DS9 never loses sight of that makes it such a compelling story is that bad circumstances makes bad choices.

What matters is how much people want to STAY in a system that perpetuates such fucked up options.

The fact that Ghemor joined the dissident movement matters because regardless of what he to become a Legate, he chose to oppose the system that required him to do whatever he did.

That’s a distinction that Kira (especially at that point in her arc) can understand.

I have a lot of thoughts on how her early season arc is about her learning that lesson for herself: separating herself from the Bajorans who remain terrorists because they can’t transition to solving problems without violence. Learning that even people she held as moral exemplars (Kai Opaka) made calls that got people killed.

[ambiguousdog]

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[corncobjelly]

money butt god bless

[justchisa]

I have never seen a money butt before

[erflump]

All hail Butt Money

[mortalsfool]

*le gasp* The money Butt?!?!

[madpanda75]

It’s not everyday you get to reblog a money butt!

[greeniery]

I’ve had a tumblr for 4 years what the fuck am I doing with my life 

[greeniery]

chuckles darkly

[plant-based-person]

[thepathlesstrekked]

I read this to my boyfriend and he immediately started giggling at the idea if a clown noir detective which resulted in him playing out the following scene:

Interior: A 1930’s detective’s office. Dimly lit, a vague outline of clutter suggests a blasé attitude towards the usefulness of cleanliness. A man with better things to do.

The window of the front door is illuminated from behind. The carefully painted on words cast a shadow on the floor. “Chuckles Darkly: Private Eye”

A bulky figure blots out the light before the door is thrown open the door. A light turns on. In walks Chuckles, giant shoes slapping against the ground. He reaches into his hula hoop stabilized pants and pulls out a lighter and a cigar.

He flicks the lighter open and egnites the cigar. As he flicks the lighter shut again the cigar explodes in his face.

He scowls, a perfect ring of soot obscuring his eyes.

“I’m going to clean up this City.”

[parttimesarah]

[oh-good]

Imagine you're lobbying in favor of some environmentally harmful scheme and someone's like "Monty Lamontgommery is here to make a rebuttal" and you're like "the children's author?" And then he bursts in the room on the back of a fucking tyrannosaurus rex