#David Marcus

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[naturegirly55]

I'm currently reading The Autobiography of James T. Kirk and it has pictures!

This looks like a family photo tbh.

This is so cute. I love Edith.

A letter to David that Kirk never sent. He mentions that kid in A Piece of The Action. Sorry it's kind of blurry.

Kirk's travel pass for his trip to Tarsus IV.

A picture of Carol Marcus and David when he was two and the camping trip in The Final Frontier.

[schn-tgai-saavik]

Bones, David and Saavik seem so done with Jim's antics

(The kids are tying not to laugh at their dad at a starfleet party)

[jojoolion]

[mrmistopher]

As much as I 100% agree with everyone who argues that we should have gotten more screentime for the women of TOS (Commanders Chapel and Rand) or for Saavik and David, I feel the character who got done dirtiest by the movies was Dr. Marcus.

She was such an interesting character, both in terms of her relation to Kirk and her goals with Project Genesis. She absolutely could have grown and been one of the best TOS era characters ever if given more development in future films, but no. We don't even see her in Search for Spock. The movie where her damn son dies. And she didn't even come back in Undiscovered Country?? The movie where David's death is a pivotal piece of Kirk's character arc??

Apparently she was supposed to appear in Search for Spock, but they snipped her out of the movie seemingly for budget cuts, and because she was "extraneous" which feels like such a shitty thing to do to the character, in a movie with a plotline set on Genesis (which she created) that features the death of her son. Her actress, Bibi Besch apparently was very disappointed that we never got any sort of closure with Marcus, and she's damn right! Apparently she was supposed to be in Generations but was cut out because... idk we can't have nice things?? (Also not the movie's fault, but the fact she passed on only two years after being cut from Generations feels so unfair to Besch. Rest in peace.) Also nobody bring up Into Darkness. I haven't seen it, but I already know they did her real dirty in that one.

[dig-jules]

this whole picture cracks me tf up

OKAYY UNCLE-NEPHEW DYNAMIC WE NEVER GOT

OKAYYYY SAAVIK FEELING HERSELFF

OKAY NIGHTMARE SPOCK FUNERAL ROTATION

OKAYY GUY THAT LOOKS SUICIDAL

[emptyjunior]

Who's your star trek underrated duo, because I'm still sore about Dr David and Saavik.

Spock's best student and Kirk's nerd son?!! Adorable! Incredible!

They're both such Jocks but also Giant Nerds, both on and off the curly hair regime.

She's on the command path and he's a famed (slightly disgraced) scientist?!! They're made to be Kirk and spocks next generation, that's a captain and science officer right there.

I want to see her epic path to admiral with this absolute goof telling her biology facts while she fights klingons

[purple-iris]

Star Trek: The Next Generation? Don't you mean Dr. Joanna McCoy, CMO, Captain Saavik and Dr. David Marcus, Chief Science Officer?

[nuclearbattery]

furry saavik and david

[woman-of-many-fandoms]

So this is something else that's been in my mind. Assuming AOS Kirk got Carol pregnant (I know her and McCoy had better chemistry, bit if) how would AOS Kirk handle it? He already has a butt load of daddy issues and I think he wouldn't like the thought of his kid growing up without a father like he did. I can honestly see him trying to make it work. I know TOS Carol told TOS Kirk to stay away but I think she saw he wouldn't be happy and how hard TOS Kirk worked to make captain which AOS Kirk didn't. AOS Kirk may want to try.

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

we as a society should talk about spirk raising saavik more. if just for the meeting of david and saavik.

david: man i hate that jim kirk. he sucks he use to date my mom i hate him

saavik: you shall cease this slander of my father lest i beat you up

[mephistopheles]

sorry. incredibly stupid post

[schn-tgai-saavik]

In my heart we should have gotten Captain Saavik and her Science Officer David Marcus

[killfaeh]

Hello !

And here is at last the assembling of the illustration of the last few days'! :D

Suisei

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#405

"I usually really like gender-bend fics in other fandoms as usually it's an exploration of how a story might change if the character is female or male in the same situations but in Star Trek I've noticed gender-bend fics, particularly male to female gender-bends, seem to be more about self-insert purposes. The biggest character I notice this with is Kirk who when gender-bent becomes overly emotional and defenseless in order for Spock or McCoy to swoop in and save her. If I wanted to read McCoy×reader or Spock×reader I would but I'd really rather read about how being a female would change Kirk's life in situations like Tarsus or how being a female would change people's veiw of Kirk's flirty and promiscuous behavior that's respected as a man but might be vilified as a woman.

Kirk literally doesn't even meet his son until the guys 20 and you think being a female just makes it biologically imperative that she raise whatever McCoy or Spock hybrid comes out? Jane/Jamie/Jasmine/whatever her name is would 100% get an abortion or adopt that kid out if the other option was losing the Enterprise, sorry, not sorry. Whatever Carol's male counterpart is, he's still going to raise David by himself.

Genderbend as I've experienced it has always been about exploring gender rolls and expectations and subverting them on occasion not how Spock would cradle your (sorry Kirk's) face while comforting you (sorry Kirk) from what the mean Admiral, who you're (sorry Kirk's) more then capable of telling to screw off, said to you (sorry Kirk).

I read gender-bend fics to break the status quo so the fact that Star Trek of all fandoms writes gender-bends that reinforce traditionalists values...wasn't it."

[rizz-penguin]

top women x bottom men is my new favorite ship dynamic

uhotty:3 transgenders

S'pring um yeah aren't they wonderful

sorry I twinkified stonn :(

Yoppe e