#TOS Movies

[kugelfische]

Before I die

I'd like to do something nice

Take my hand and I'll take you for a ride.

im sorry this is so rushed, my circulation was getting really bad again .

[tprings-hair]

I'm going to say something about the new unification short film that I haven't seen anyone here say yet.

I love the handholding scene. massively impactful. I love the echo of "this simple feeling" from the motion picture and the genesis reference and the idea that spock did not die alone or among strangers. it's just so satisfying after all this time to know that even shatner knew it was wrong and needed to be approached with more compassion for nimoy and the fans who loved these characters and knew they should be together at the end, whatever that looked like.

but you know what really got me?

this minute or so. kirk confronting his old selves. because that's obviously original series kirk right there in the gold uniform.

and the other? THAT'S HIM!!

(I'm linking it this way because you apparently can't add more than one video to a post and I need it here for demonstration.)

so we have present kirk walking down a dark hallway. at the end is spock, but at the end is also spock's death. how can he step forward and face that? what happened to the way he used to think about death?

yellow shirt is TOS kirk, who had always found a way around the problem and never (if the movies are to be believed) had to face death straight on. he's looking forward with confidence. there's no way spock is dying. there's a way out of this somehow, if only he can find it.

TOS kirk looks back the way he came, because he believes he can go back. he can always go back. the series always resets to the same characters who can be depended on to take similar actions, because that's what a serial is, and that's who he is. things have taken their toll on him, but he knows he can take the hit and keep moving.

but he stops when he's faces with WOK kirk. the one in the red dress uniform, who has lost spock and knows what it is to live without him. who has faced death in a way he had never had to before, because the constraints of the series never allowed it. he has been changed because of it.

TOS kirk sees that, and does that sort of posturing that he always does in front of someone who's threatening him. but WOK kirk isn't threatening him. he's just living through something TOS kirk hasn't had to face yet. it's him staring his past self in the face and telling him, kindly and firmly, you know nothing about how it will feel. you will never be the same without him.

and TOS kirk looks back again, and there's a present kirk, wearing his generations uniform. this is kirk having turned that grief to a desperate search for the most important person in his life, and emerged with spock by his side. he's not the same, but he's made it through. of course TOS kirk would look to that.

and as our kirk looks at these people he used to be, they vanish in front of him. he remembers the way he used to think about losing spock. the fear, the grief, the hope. there's no hope left. when he reaches the end, spock will be there, and it will be their last time together.

but he puts the pin back on, and reminds himself of his duty not just to a fellow officer, but to a friend, to the most important person in his life, and to himself. spock should not be alone, and he never got to say goodbye properly before. doing it now is the least he can do.

that's his ultimate responsibility in that moment: being there for spock. that's been his ultimate responsibility from the beginning. and this is shatner acknowledging that they deserved an ending that fit that truth.

[fastdrawfarmboy]

[mistermistyyy]

I know we all talk about Spirk in Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock but Voyage Home has some of my personal favorite scenes between the two of them.

I love their argument over Italian food, Kirk trying to get Spock to stop swearing, Kirk trying to get Spock to call him by first name again, and I especially love the scene where McCoy goes "He trusts your guess more than most people's facts".

[twinkboimler]

[spocktopuss]

TEEN SPOCK!!!

[marlinspirkhall]

So, anyway, there's another video from the Roddenberry Archive

[wwillywonka]

☆GET TO KNOW ME♡: [10/?] Favorite Characters

SPOCK - Star Trek Franchise (1966-2013)

I am what I am, Leila. If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's.

[gay-mooshrooms]

Fuuuuuuuck Search for Spock ok this is gonna be a long one

STARTING THE MOVIE WITH SPOCK'S DEATH SCENE. KIRK SAYING SPOCK IS HIS NOBLER HALF THAT HE HAS LEFT BEHIND. HIM WALKING OFF THE BRIDGE INTO THE LIFT AND HIS FACE IMMEDIATELY FALLING ONCE HE'S ALONE. SAREK AUTOMATICALLY THINKING SPOCKS SOUL WOULD BE WITH KIRK BECAUSE EVEN HE KNOWS HOW MUCH SPOCK CARED FOR AND TRUSTED KIRK. KIRK SAYING SPOCK MEANT MORE TO HIM THAT SAREK WOULD EVER KNOW AND THAT IF HE COULD'VE HE WOULD'VE SACRIFICED HIMSELF INSTEAD. KIRKS BROKEN "NO" AT THE END OF THE MIND MELD. KIRK SAYING THAT SPOCKS SOUL IS AS MUCH HIS RESPONSIBILITY AS HIS OWN WOULD BE. THE MAIN CREW OF THE ENTERPRISE RISKING THEIR LIVES AND CAREERS FOR SPOCK NO QUESTIONS ASKED. KIRK PROTECTING THE UNCONSCIOUS SPOCK IN HIS ARMS. MCCOY SAYING HE MISSED SPOCK AND COULDN'T BARE TO LOSE HIM AGAIN. SAREK ADMITING THAT SPOCK MAKES HIM LOSE HIS LOGIC. SPOCK PAUSING AND TURNING AROUND AS HE LOOKED AT THE FACES OF THE PEOPLE HE CALLED HIS FAMILY.

KIRK LOSING EVERYTHING HE CARED ABOUT, HIS SON HIS SHIP AND HIS CAPTAINCY, ALL FOR A CHANCE THAT SPOCK MIGHT'VE BEEN ABLE TO COME BACK BECAUSE IF HE HADN'T TRIED, "THE COST WOULD'VE BEEN MY SOUL" NOT SPOCKS. HIS.

SPOCK ASKING WHY KIRK CAME BACK AND KIRK SAYING "THE NEEDS OF THE ONE OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE MANY." DIRECTLY PARALLELING SPOCKS DEATH STATEMENT. SPOCK REMEMBERING THAT THE SHIP WAS IN DANGER AND THE LAST THINGS HE SAID TO KIRK.

"I HAVE BEEN AND EVER SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND."!!!!!

"JIM. YOUR NAME IS JIM."!!!!!!!!

KIRKS FUCKING SMILE!!!!!!!

THE ORIGINAL MUSIC COMING BACK IN AT THE END!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[bearsinpotatosacks]

Something about Bones and Spock being closer after the Search for Spock. They've been in each other’s heads, Spock stops and looks at Bones who just taps his head before he goes to Jim and remembers who he is.

Spock finds himself lingering around Bones more. There's a comfort to his presence that he can't describe, but it's not entirely illogical. He's the one person he knew between dying and rebirth, he knows his mind almost like his own, it's like childhood blanket or the sun on his face. A warmth.

Bones, too, notices a change. Somethings just seem more Vulcan. Maybe it's just him, or how shocking his, Spock and Jim’s mental bond coming back seems, but he feels what Spock must feel when they ozh'esta. Before, whenever he and Jim did this to Spock, or each other out of habit, they didn’t feel anything directly themselves. Through the bond they could feel the happiness it gave Spock, but never the zing as it happened.

Jim thinks he's jealous for a moment, in the period where Spock’s back but not fully himself, with that naivety he has in the Voyage Home. He fears that maybe he has to come to terms with that fact that his relationship with Spock died that day.

Of course this passes, Spock remembers more and becomes himself again. But his bond with Bones doesn’t fade, Jim appreciates it for what it is and smiles when Spock reaches for Bones in the night, when Bones frowns and Spock does too.

[red-cicada]

finished watching the tos movies and wanted to draw some stuff

Gonna re-watch The Voyage Home with my big sister on the weekend so I am very excited

i am obsessed with the little hand thing Spock and Sybok did, felt like a hug goodbye or something

might do some more sketches from the movies if I remember

[not-equippedforthis]

thinking about wrath of khan + search for spock paralleling jim's kobayashi maru. the no-win scenario, because anything that involves spock dying is a no-win scenario. he couldn't touch him. they were separated by glass, spock was in a radiation chamber --- there was a literal, indestructible barrier between them, and jim couldn't have reached him if he tried. but then he tries again and he goes against starfleet orders and cheats death and logic and destroys his ship, his soul, to get the other half of it back: he beats every single odd like he's done countless times and he cheats death itself just to get spock back by a ritual that has scarcely been done for how dangerous it is and, by god, it works. because jim would break every rule and universal constant if it meant maintaining the one that says him and spock find each other in every single universe. he would break every rule and himself if it meant reaching what his life depends on. what his crew's lives depend on. first his command, then his commanding officer. but ultimately, in every scenario, he would place spock first. i need to sit down.

[urghblergh]

The Search for Pride (1984) 😄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Inspo: This fucking GIF set.

[sublimegraphics]

[twinkboimler]

[spocktopuss]

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”

“The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many”

The quote being swapped <3