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Star Trek: The Original Series - Actors With Multiple Roles

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STAR TREK (1966–1969)

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) // Dir. Leonard Nimoy

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Both Deforest and Nichelle (and probably a bunch of other people) once auditioned for the Spock-role

of course we all know Leonards iconic portrayal of Spock is irreplaceable but looking at these images you start imagining other possibilities...and real freaky universe where a spock-mccoy was walking around

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the year is 2043. william shatner, 112, is grabbing his aide's hand, begging her to get closer, his hold unexpectedly strong

"when kirk and spock had sex kirk was always the top. he never took it up the ass" he says, before immediately flatlining

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Wait a minute. Y'all are telling me that guy, Quark (is that his name?? I'm only 3 episodes in I'm still learning who's who) is Armin Shimmerman? Like... Synder from Buffy?? 😂😂

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Damn. We went from flip phones to bluetooth?

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Ok, this is actor Lawrence Selleck in spock prosthetic with NO CGI

this is WILD

OG FOOTAGE

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Admit it, Spock. For people like us, the journey itself… is home.

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GUYS

GUYS THEY PREMIERED IT FOR BILL ON THE STAR TREK REPLICA SET

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ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 𝔖𝔪𝔦𝔱𝔥, 1989

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The loss of physical locations dedicated to like.... DVDs/CDs, etc is the worst thing ever.

No,I don't want to walk into a Walmart, or a Barnes and Noble for a dvd or cd. Overpriced, they're all over priced.

I don't really have thrift stores near me. The nearest one, which I've checked out before, doesn't have anything I find interesting. Old self help books and no name hallmark-esque movies from the 80s and 90s.

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I'm going to say something about the new unification short film that I haven't seen anyone here say yet.

I love the handholding scene. massively impactful. I love the echo of "this simple feeling" from the motion picture and the genesis reference and the idea that spock did not die alone or among strangers. it's just so satisfying after all this time to know that even shatner knew it was wrong and needed to be approached with more compassion for nimoy and the fans who loved these characters and knew they should be together at the end, whatever that looked like.

but you know what really got me?

this minute or so. kirk confronting his old selves. because that's obviously original series kirk right there in the gold uniform.

and the other? THAT'S HIM!!

(I'm linking it this way because you apparently can't add more than one video to a post and I need it here for demonstration.)

so we have present kirk walking down a dark hallway. at the end is spock, but at the end is also spock's death. how can he step forward and face that? what happened to the way he used to think about death?

yellow shirt is TOS kirk, who had always found a way around the problem and never (if the movies are to be believed) had to face death straight on. he's looking forward with confidence. there's no way spock is dying. there's a way out of this somehow, if only he can find it.

TOS kirk looks back the way he came, because he believes he can go back. he can always go back. the series always resets to the same characters who can be depended on to take similar actions, because that's what a serial is, and that's who he is. things have taken their toll on him, but he knows he can take the hit and keep moving.

but he stops when he's faces with WOK kirk. the one in the red dress uniform, who has lost spock and knows what it is to live without him. who has faced death in a way he had never had to before, because the constraints of the series never allowed it. he has been changed because of it.

TOS kirk sees that, and does that sort of posturing that he always does in front of someone who's threatening him. but WOK kirk isn't threatening him. he's just living through something TOS kirk hasn't had to face yet. it's him staring his past self in the face and telling him, kindly and firmly, you know nothing about how it will feel. you will never be the same without him.

and TOS kirk looks back again, and there's a present kirk, wearing his generations uniform. this is kirk having turned that grief to a desperate search for the most important person in his life, and emerged with spock by his side. he's not the same, but he's made it through. of course TOS kirk would look to that.

and as our kirk looks at these people he used to be, they vanish in front of him. he remembers the way he used to think about losing spock. the fear, the grief, the hope. there's no hope left. when he reaches the end, spock will be there, and it will be their last time together.

but he puts the pin back on, and reminds himself of his duty not just to a fellow officer, but to a friend, to the most important person in his life, and to himself. spock should not be alone, and he never got to say goodbye properly before. doing it now is the least he can do.

that's his ultimate responsibility in that moment: being there for spock. that's been his ultimate responsibility from the beginning. and this is shatner acknowledging that they deserved an ending that fit that truth.

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