#Requiem for Methuselah

[electronickingdomfox]

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes the women of TOS act so gentlemanly with their ladylike men...

It's adorable.

[trek-tracks]

Times "Jim Kirk is a survivor of the Tarsus IV massacre" is brought up in TOS episodes: 1

Times "Jim Kirk is an absolute shit pool/billiards player" is brought up in TOS episodes: 2

(don't @ me with "this line from this episode can be interpreted as a reference to Tarsus," I just love that Kirk being unable to work a pool cue properly is actually a recurring gag, intentional or not)

[skybson]

My Top 25 Costumes from Star Trek : The Original Series

2. Rayna's Gold Gown

[spirk-trek]

S3E19: Requiem for Methuselah ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

[discoonthegrass]

**I included characters significant to one episode who I see referenced in fandom/fanfiction fairly regularly, yet who never appeared in other pieces of Star Trek media (not including novelizations of those episodes or beta canon)

[icantspellthings]

I can't get over how much this looks like she's watching an episode of Star Trek on a modern flat screen TV. Girl, this is literally me right now (minus the fancy outfit) in the 21st century watching Captain kirk on my shitty TV.

[cheer-deforest-kelley]

Lost blooper from “Requiem for Methuselah”. Excellent treasure finding to @cursedtrekedits for this one.

[goofyjelly]

okay but what in the everloving FUCK was that scene at the end of Requiem for Methuselah (S3E19 STAR TREK TOS)

Cus Bones goes ON AND ON about how Spock will never know the intensity of love, the things it'll drive people to do, the rule breaking, the pain-

AND THEN HE DOES THIS ????

He is literally going INTO KIRKS HEAD and making him forget; IF THAT ISNT RULE BREAKING ON SO MANY LEVELS , I DONT KNOW WHAT IS

fuck, man, that scene... Jeez

I haven't finished watching all of the TOS episodes yet , but that scene is already one of my favorites of all time.

I love so many things about this: the spirk truthing, what this says about Spock as a person, just the way Kirk is so distressed to the point he just passes out on his desk with Spock in his room...

[favvn]

Jim Kirk x Trouble (version 3)

[your-name-is-jim]

My personal Star Trek TOS pet peeve is that I absolutely refuse to believe that some guy on a planet who built the "perfect woman" to make her his perfect wife forever was Leonardo Da Vinci. He was fucking not. There is literally zero evidence in history that Leonardo was ever attracted to women. He never married, never had mistresses, he lived his life surrounded by men. He was accused of sodomy once. Not definitive proof that he was gay, perhaps, but that's a better hint than randomly assuming he liked women!

Also, are they implying that the "Alexander" among Mr. Flint's other identities was Alexander the Great? Because OMG, don't get me started. Listen, maybe Alexander was (also) attracted to women, but his marriages were political. There's zero proof that he ever wished to have a deep emotional connection with a woman. On the contrary, his lifelong bond was with a man. And LOL, don't even get me started on the differences between Flint's reaction when the supposed love of his life Rayna dies, and Alexander the Great's reaction when Hephaestion died… THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Let's just say that it'd be like comparing Kirk's reaction to Rayna's death to Kirk's reaction to Spock's death in The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock (and actually, even Kirk seems to take Rayna's death worse than Flint LOL).

I know, I know, it was the '60s. But it still bothers me so much to see two queer historical figures linked to that Flint dude. He was not them. He was not!

Okay, end of the rant.

(On the other hand, I guess I can believe he was Lazarus lol)

[uhuraborealis]

this was so toxic yuri

[instantpansies]

star trek s3e19 requiem for methuselah really had bones give spock some big speech about love and his incapability to experience it. and spock really looked over at jim and decided to spare him the despair of a doomed love and making him forget he'd ever fallen for someone who couldn't reciprocate.

this is such a scene to me bc it confirms a number of things: the deep love bones holds for jim, the respect and trust spock holds for bones' judgement, and spock's constant willingness to put jim's safety, happiness, comfort over his own.

you can see in bones' monologue, he's so deeply pained. he knows the pain jim is going through, he can't bear to see him in that pain, and the fact (or perception) that spock cannot understand that pain sparks both jealousy (that spock won't be in pain, that jim still loves spock despite that, that bones himself can't help but love spock anyway) and protectiveness over jim (spock, who cannot love, will only inevitably break jim's heart).

and spock takes it. of course the king of repression believes himself incapable of feeling that illogical despair, but he isn't incapable of love. in another moment, he surely would have snapped back at bones, reminded him that vulcans mate in bonds that kill if broken, that their emotions run deeper than humans', that though bones may not understand his culture there is so much love to be found on vulcan. but he doesn't say any of that. he just listens to bones, who has tears in his eyes as he gestures to their captain in the depths of depression, and lets him get it all out. and when bones expresses that it's better to forget to have loved at all than to remember and be in pain forever - spock just nods, and waits for him to leave, and lets jim forget.

spock isn't doing some small thing here - he's taking on all those emotions jim's going through (btw, disproving bones' earlier point that he could never experience those feelings). and, despite ample potential consequences (carrying alone the weight of seeing jim in such pure, dark despair, breaking probably several vulcan codes of conduct, breaking the captain's trust, etc), he trusts that bones is right in wishing jim's forgetting, and takes that emotion upon himself, and lets jim forget he was ever in love with someone who could never love him in the past and now would never love him again. forget he ever fell for an android and taught her the depths of love and killed her. spock just takes it away, and the only one who's still there for jim is spock.

it's quite a scene. the fact that spock goes "oh the captain is still in love with this person who can never love him adequately (or at all anymore). okay, i'll make him forget she ever existed. and who will be left to remember?" (spock will remember. i wonder if he ever regretted it. i wonder if every time he makes the captain smile he thinks of rayna. how he loved her and it's like it never happened. i wonder if he will ever be certain the captain loves him like that.)

idk.

[trek-tracks]

These new CAPTCHAs are just a little too easy

[per1w1nkl3]

theres something so special to me about kirk being incredibly private, unhealthily so, he alone going his way doing what he feels is right. it's exhausting but it's what he's always done, it's what he must do.

but spock and mccoy, they notice there's something wrong, they meet up, try to to find out what it is and how to help.

spock might not know much about human emotions but he knows loneliness and he knows guilt and he would never want jim, his brilliant captain to feel that.

so spock, the cold, emotionless vulcan goes to his quarters and talks to him stern but kindly. he erases his memory, he's always ready to be by his side no matter what.

the both of them would see stars born and die before they'd willingly let anything happen to jim

[therezastarman]

"forget" right after that rant from bones about how spock will never feel love is fucking CRAZYYYYY like i do not think i have ever heard a single word spoken with so much pure love and care as that word

love isn't written into his books my ass

[naturegirly55]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I really dislike this scene in Requiem for Methuselah.

It was probably supposed to illustrate what Bones had just told Spock about what being in love can make a person do, specifically "the broken rules" and "desperate chances".

Obviously, Spock cares deeply about Kirk and had good intentions, but it makes me uncomfortable that he did it without Kirk's explicit consent. I was reminded of the scene in The Final Frontier when Kirk refused to let Sybok take away his pain. He says, "They're things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. ...If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain." I feel like Kirk would have refused if Spock had asked him.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but these are just my thoughts.