#For real

[novminn]

Why is he death staring into the camera hello💔

[hannahlina890]

[bobbyfloyd]

y’all ready for this thunderbolts press tour?

[iridescentoracle]

#when parmen is like 'well we've had to accommodate plato to social necessity of course but we have a wonderful democracy...' #i can only imagine that kirk's internally like 'what the...? has this man even READ the republic?' #just imagining if i went to space and somehow every other planet involved someone being aggressively wrong about early modern lit #james t kirk: a humanities guy who loves space and keeps having to deal with ai bullshit and retvrn techbro aliens #no wonder he always seems on the verge of a migraine #but ngl the clueless style 'get lieutenant kirk a girlfriend so we can pass his fucking class' backstory is a DELIGHT. i love it so much (via anghraine)

One of the highlights of the description of younger Kirk as a bookish and severe Academy instructor is that Gary Mitchell, the friend describing him that way, seems to have been his student back in the day and was trying to pass his notoriously difficult "think or sink" class at the Academy.

Present-day Mitchell mentions reading "that longhair stuff you like" to Kirk (now that he's acquired godly powers that include being able to read Spinoza) and there's this random lore drop about how Mitchell helped a lab technician with a crush on Kirk orchestrate her dating campaign, in hopes that it'd distract Kirk enough for Mitchell to survive his class.

It seems pretty widely accepted that Kirk had a romance with Mitchell himself at the time, which is not my take at all, BUT honestly it's hilarious to me that there's this whole Clueless-style "student matchmaking plot to get a strict teacher a girlfriend so he'll chill enough that you can pass the class" history established almost immediately about Kirk. Comedy gold, especially since Kirk and the lab technician ended up in a long-term relationship and he nearly married her.

Bonus: Kirk and Mitchell became close friends but Kirk is still incredulous at the idea of Mitchell voluntarily reading Spinoza in the episode. And when Mitchell flips into obnoxious god mode and describes Spinoza as simple and childish, Kirk is pretty evidently affronted and alarmed. It's not surprising that Kirk has big philosophy opinions given that futuristic humanism is half his personality, but the idea of him as a former philosophy instructor with Spinoza feelings who goes to space and still can't escape Bad Philosophy Takes is incredible. Even by Season 3, it's just like:

KIRK: Dr. McCoy saved your life. PARMEN: I am losing patience, captain. KIRK: And you consider yourself a disciple of Plato?!

[allthatispeculiar]

[nessa007]

[morichaan]

[classycookiexo]

[5weetmeat]

since some of you are confused

[glitterypin]

rare sighting of Nine and/or Twelve in Thirteen's body

[gramarobin]

[judahlux]

I need to understand why Miguel, A FUCKING TEENAGER, is standing in front of Daniel and Johnny, TWO FUCKING OLD MEN IF YOU CARE, in the middle of a beach as if he were an angry latin mother scolding her two children

[dumblr]

My world can be falling apart and i still won't ask you for shit.

[inpayneland]

Charles Rowland didn't "We have forever to figure out the rest" for you to call him straight

[tamoscringecorner]

I'm just gonna leave this here...