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Ofc Spock is alienated, and it’s a beautiful and heart wrenching conflict, but I think Kirk’s alienation in TOS is just as fascinating.

Kirk can’t have long term romantic relationships because he is Captain. He refuses to get with people on his crew who he has direct control over (in the context of Spirk I believe that this would also cause him to hesitate in forming a relationship with Spock) and of course all other relationships would be long-long-long distance.

Jim’s romances are also often ruses; it’s not often that he seems to truly fall in love with a woman as opposed to simply seducing her in order to gain an advantage.

Jim has to be forced by Spock and McCoy to relax; he also seems to have told no one about either his traumatic experience on Tarsus IV, or his traumatic experience with the spooky evil fog. This seems to me to show a reluctance to show weakness.

Jim loves his position as captain and would do (almost) anything to maintain it.

I also see Kirk as fairly calculating; he is able to put emotion aside to make difficult choices (as in The City on the Edge of Forever). Kirk, while personable, is a fairly Vulcan human.

All of these things, I believe, show that Kirk probably feels lonely and alienated. I think this is why he understands Spock so well — they are able to find in each other the solace they lack everywhere else. Kirk can trust that Spock won’t be manipulated by him because of Spock’s Vulcan strength and logic; Kirk doesn’t have to worry about Spock attempting to gain power because Spock does not want command.

Jim struggles with loneliness and alienation. Boom.

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picard and sarek gave me rabies the way they instabonded "we're a part of each other" you melded ONCE. ON THE DAY YOU MET

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enchanted by the way trek paces things. give me 10 solid minutes of a whale talking to a space probe with no subs. we need to see their entire conversation but no we dont its private

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yo i think my doctor got in a fistfight

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a 2 minute kirk/spock doodle because when I’m sick my mind wanders to them as a remedy like miso soup

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Plato’s Children

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one thing I love about the original series is the way Kirk gazes at Spock with pure love and affection in his eyes, with a soft smile, in front of everyone on the bridge, while spock talks about something relatively boring like this clip for example

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Some memes I made for @opheliawithrosesinherlungs after our weekly Star Trek viewing 😄

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murder on the road

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was is liquor or was it my soul

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KIRA NERYS - STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE S1E15 Progress

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With the knowledge that Vulcan has regularly high winds & subsequent sandstorms I propose a type of guy: midwestern dads watching tornadoes but for Vulcans. Somebody's uncle Sovar standing outside with his hands on his hips watching a massive cloud roll closer. Unconcerned because this happens, like, every couple of weeks. He's like "this one is large, is it not" yes it is go back inside Sovar

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Another win for the queer community

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Something about having an universal translator, and learning to understand without it

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I love you “unlikeable” female characters I love you rude girls I love you mean women I love you girl interpretations of the “Asshole with a Heart of Gold” trope I love you women who get labeled Cold and Unfeeling I love you girls who lash out I love you women who lie I love you female characters who make people mad just by existing