#Captain Kirk cosplay

[baharnoth]

im making kirks green tunic for a con next month,, its me and fabric glue against the world fr 🙏🙏

[spirk-trek]

Trekfest '24 Parade📍Riverside, IA

[im-just-a-simple-tailor]

Here are some photos of the Amok Time Spirk cosplay I made for me and my friend for a convention!

obligatory spirk pic (we took a lot of very cute photos I have a whole folder in my phone)

It was quite a process honestly. We bought shirts from a thrift store and I altered them to be tight fitting. Then we added the black collar, which was very much eyeballing it but I think it turned out pretty good. We had to put some stealth safety pins in it to wear it though, so that the collar would fit snug to the neck (we couldn’t make them smaller because yk your head has to fit through). The rank stripes are giftwrap and glue lol but honestly they look really accurate (makes me wonder if they didn’t just do the same thing back in the 60s tbh). The insignias we also made ourselves. We cut them out on white fabric and sprayed it with gold spray and then I printed and cut out a stencil and did the black lines with marker.

Also, the most stressful moment in my entire sewing experience had to be cutting the slit into the Kirk uniform. All that work and i just have to cut into it. You better believe I measured and tried it over twenty times before cutting. Also I took a lot of photos before so I’d have something if I ruined it lol

Btw I stuck two pieces of bandaid on the inside at the ends of the slit to prevent it from ripping further.

[supercoolsuperqueer]

hey guys official face/cosplay reveal...

oh yeag, and kirk

The tribble, knife, NCR recon patch, and skill magazine were all handmade by meeee :3

silly pic below cut

hahahhahahhah yeah........ that's me

I had other pics of my kirk cosplay but they have other ppl in them so yeag...... I'm not abt to post ppl without their consent

Fan Fusion was a total blast and it's always the highlight of my year :]

[arwendeluhtiene]

Belated Happy Star Trek day with some pics from a 2018 convention and casual (low res, phone trouble xD) shoot featuring my Science Officer OC with Tarmaerika! 😁🖖🔭🚀

My Science Officer cosplay posts

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FB cosplay page

IG cosplay page

[kyrafic]

A couple of times every year, I realize I'm accidentally wearing the awkward combination of joggers with Chelsea boots.

And I think to myself, good job, loser, you look like James T. Kirk.

And then I spend the day walking around secretly having a grand old time pretending I am James T. Kirk.

[southernmotherofdragons]

Star Trek Cosplay

[askcosplaysenpai]

Khan got the jump on him once. Dude should have finished Kirk off when he had the chance.

[mxsirel]

When Captain Kirk but make him a Victorian adventure lady instead 👀

(ft. Kitty Wesner as a yeoman)

[baharnoth]

From the top, mr. Spock!!!

@csicatherinewillows and I went to a small con as kirk and spock, we also got second place in the costume contest!!

[spirk-trek]

Got to meet some of Starfleet's finest at Trekfest '24 🫡

[swan2swan]

I like that they’re stuck in their costumes.

[arwendeluhtiene]

Happy Star Trek day with some edits from a 2021 Trek shoot featuring my Science Officer OC with Tarmaerika! 😁🖖🔭🚀

My Science Officer cosplay posts

DeviantArt

FB cosplay page

IG cosplay page

[hordeofcorvids]

My sister is an enabler. I told her I wanted to cosplay Jim from the Amok Time episode, and she is now enthusiastically encouraging me. Time to start working out again so I can play cinemas sluttiest starship captain I guess.

Boob window here I come lol

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

My friend was super popular at Boston Pride:

He and several other friends from the 18th century reenacting community joined me (we also had a Riker, as you can see) and he was super down to bring one of several Kirk cosplays to the party. He’d never been in a pride parade before but he got so much love for the Amok Time cosplay! So many 🖖🖖🖖 from the crowd, and the pinnacle of it was when he saw another Kirk and they hugged! Then a bunch of people wanted to do the weird thing where you do the 🖖 gesture and scissor your hands!

Every queer geek will appreciate Amok Time Kirk.

happy pride

[anghraine]

Further contemplated the femslash Spirk concept while I was going to sleep, inevitably, and concluded:

I am perfectly aware this has been done before in the last, you know, nearly 60 years of this ship's towering fandom influence; I've definitely seen art and cosplay. However, I'm deliberately insulating myself from reading any other versions until the finer details are more nailed down in my own head.

McCoy is definitely still a man (specifically DeForest Kelley c. TOS) because it only later occurred to me that 1) thematically, I definitely prefer this trio as a mixed gender group and 2) the advocate for emotion and instinct and human warmth being a male doctor and the voice of logic and discipline being a woman and technically his superior pleases me greatly. I also like the McCoy-Kirk brotp as a male-female friendship that is intense, complex, and 100% platonic.

I'm still figuring out how Kirk being repeatedly menaced by the woman of the week would pan out with f!Kirk. With m!Kirk it feels like the show pushes him having an irresistible appeal to women in general (regardless of the woman's morality) that is where this ultimately comes from, but he's got a lot of Odysseus tropes to him as a character that make his femme fatale allure and willingness to use it as a tool more interesting than as the inevitable fate of a female space captain. Also, even in a femslash context, it feels homophobic for it to always be women sexually harassing f!Kirk.

Kirk's going to be Jessica instead of my original idea of Deborah. I was thinking of what would be a sturdy, ordinary name in the Midwest comparable to James that would also abbreviate conveniently to a common short form (Jim / Deb / Jess). I wanted the shortened version to be something that could carry the emotional weight of Spock's very occasional "Jim" without feeling that the nickname itself is more significant than Jim is for a dude from Iowa. I also wanted to avoid the -y/-ie endings of so many English nicknames (sorry, Francophones). Deb seemed to work well enough, except I'd forgotten that I have a considerably older family friend who not only uses Deb (and is named Deborah) but happens to have very similar coloring and background to young Shatner. As I was plotting the femslash, the association with her felt increasingly weird and uncomfortable, so I switched to Jessica (chosen for reasons largely unrelated to it also beginning with J, but that helps!).

Does Jessica Kirk wear the miniskirt and go-go boots while issuing non-negotiable orders from her captain's chair? Definitely.