#“What the fuck Vulcan?”

[coolunspokenforname]

There needs to be a pompeii movie with Pompeii MMXXIII by Bastille as one of the main songs. Like, it's gotta be played while the volcano erupts and ash buries the city and people are running and screaming.

[spirk-trek]

imagine amanda watching how mothers on vulcan share a telepathic bond with their children and not being able to do this for spock

imagine how it would break her heart, how she might worry they'll never connect when she sees a mother touching her daughter's face or holding her son's hand with purpose, without words

imagine spock melding with her as soon as he's able, showing her he loves her because he can't say it, he'll never be able to say it

imagine her being so proud of her little boy for researching and teaching himself to meld with a non-telepath just for her, all for her

holding him after when he's so exhausted he goes boneless in her arms and she strokes his hair and thanks him

and he mumbles something about it being illogical to thank him before falling asleep and she holds his little hand and feels the tiniest sparks of love still there, so small she might've imagined them before he's snoring softly

[illogical-space-monkey]

The human urge to lick a vulcan's palm and see what happens.

[trek-tracks]

I feel like I simply. Could Not take the pressure of writing an official Star Trek novel or novelization, because, as someone who loves making silly jokes For The Bit, the potential repercussions are so intense.

You write one line about Spock getting drunk off the sucrose in a mint and suddenly there are 50,000 fics about Spock's addiction to chocolate and everyone has to rethink the entirety of the chemical properties of the Vulcan diet

Can you imagine what a misplaced pun might do

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Sarek and Amanda Grayson both lowkey seeing their children as little experiments in different ways is undeniably bad parenting BUT .... I mean you talk about matching each other's freak .... Like imagine for a second Sarek is like "I am going to show that Humans are just as good as Vulcans by molding this Human child and my half Human son into the perfect Vulcans - This will show that despite what society thinks of as their genetic inferiority, they're just as good as any Vulcan." and Amanda's response to that is to think "Sarek is wrong...Michael's humanity MUST be preserved...so that I can show her all the love and affection I can't show Spock and maybe through their sibling bond all my unspoken and unexpressed love can trickle down to him through her." What are you both DOOOOING!?? You guys are NUTS like PLEASE just TALK to each other and compromise about how you're going to raise your children!! [Love the drama though] So I'm imagining in my head that Sarek is severely pressuring both Spock and Michael to act as perfect Vulcans their entire lives with him or else they're failures not only in his eyes but in all of society's (because he's an ambassador and raising these children is tied irrevocably with his work as such) WHILE Amanda is secretly trying to funnel her humanity and love for Spock through Michael and as such failure to receive, express, or internalize that love is failing not only your mother but also the entire Human race. Damned if you do damned if you don't! Who do you want to disappoint more, kids?

In 'Point of Light' Amanda says that she gave Michael all of the love, joy, and affection which she wasn't "permitted" (we must question the use of the word - what stopped her from directly giving Spock this love? I'm not saying there wasn't pressure for her not to, I'm saying the word 'permitted' absolves her of any personal choice or failing in a way that's interesting to me) to give Spock and though this is on the surface level sweet and probably meant to be interpreted that way, I submit that it must be kind of fucked up to hear that your foster mother was maybe only so kind and caring to you because she felt she wasn't allowed to act that way towards her "real" son. Michael Burnham as a tool for both her parents, however unintentional, is very interesting and I'm not sure it's something canon considers (haven't watched the show, I just like imagining things). The feeling that you have to be grateful to these people for not only being your parents but being YOUR parents. For taking you in and giving you a beautiful life - you have to pay them back, you have to make them especially proud of YOU. Because they didn't HAVE to, did they? Because you're not their "real" child. In the end, it's always Spock - isn't it? The love your mother gives you is Spock's love and if only one child can enter the Vulcan Science Academy then it has to be Spock. You're the appetizer your father serves before the REAL main course and your mother's stuffed doll which represents the thing she REALLY wants to hold and you know they genuinely care about you. That's the worst part. Because you know they care and they didn't mean to hurt you and the voice in the back of your head keeps telling you that any hurt they've dealt you pales in comparison to the debt you owe them and they love you, they love you, they love you, they love you, they love you [repeat as often as need be: remember the debt]

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Me seeing a fantasy or sci-fi universe made up of entirely fictional peoples and cultures: okay but which ones are the Jews I can project onto.

[spinach-pine]

i really like how jim's standing here and playing/looking at his hands like someone who's dying to ask their crush out on a date.

[woof-verine]

pon farr poolverine fic…. HELLO?? DOES ANYONE HEAR ME !!!

[risingchaos]

There are two wolves inside me. Both of them are angsty Spock fanfics in progress. Both of them want me to work on them. They’re both losing to the secret third wolf known as don’t actually finish them, just think about how exactly you’ll finish them and don’t write any of it down.

[maliciousalice]

Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.

[universalcaffination]

No idea why or how but apparently the movie decided to chicken out in the voyage home a scene of kirk and spock clasping hands and I have no idea why 👀

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

I wish this wasn't the case but every day I grow more unhinged about Sarek Star Trek. For a man so seemingly uninterested in children, it's wild he had 3 (and one of them was entirely voluntary!). I cannot fathom what compels a man so blase about parenting to keep having them.

I guess the logic of Sybok was that it was a pure accident, Spock maybe was a request by Amanda, but MICHAEL? That was a choice and he still just did it. Man's wild

[spirk-trek]

Counterpoint Fanzine | Rudas, 1992

[hexados-on-a-string]

i had to rewatch this episode of mechtanium surge again just to see if this actually happened and wasnt some sort of fever dream. and it was real. why are they like this.

[hiero-green]

Star trek 3 is on in the cinema tomorrow night and I might go, Trekkies pls give me the cliff notes of what I need to know going into it

[bumblingbabooshka]

GIRL. WHAT DO YOU MEAN.