#WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE!!!

[flaresanimedump]

Because, for some obscure reason, ranfuku is dragging me into ABO kicking and screaming after almost a decade of the trope squicking me out, I wrote out every dynamic combination that could exist for them.

And caught Omega Ranpo/Omega Fukuzawa brainworms. Fukuzawa thinks he's helping Ranpo with his heats because he's experienced them himself and knows how. Ranpo thinks they're a couple. Not that Fukuzawa does anything to contradict Ranpo - it just isn't a conscious decision on his part. Ranpo didn't get the memo that he has to tell Fukuzawa they're dating. Imagine how tiring it must be having to tell everyone things that are right in front of their faces.

Fukuzawa thinking Ranpo and Poe are on the verge of becoming mates and being sad about it. Not really knowing why, he's just wistful and melancholy whenever Ranpo and Poe are together. People start whispering "empty-nest syndrome" and "when will his husband return from the war" behind his back. Taneda and Mori do it to his face but he expects comments like that from them and ignores them.

Ranpo can't figure out what's wrong?? Like. Fukuzawa's not. a needy person. It took him a long time to get used to having Ranpo around and he still likes to have a little time to himself. Ranpo thought he'd like the space.

And Ranpo noticed the sighing and the sad stares way before anyone else. He knows it happens when he's with Poe and he knows it gets better when he comes back to Fukuzawa but it doesn't go away and it's driving him a little crazy. Do you not like Poe is a question that puts Fukuzawa into such a sorry state that Ranpo eats all the candy in a one mile radius around the office in the following days, even if Fukuzawa's reply was I think he's a wonderful boy.

Eventually (after maybe two weeks, he's not a patient person) Ranpo can't take it anymore and demands to know what's gotten into you lately!? And Fukuzawa has no answer because he's not sure either, really. He always knew their situation was temporary. They'll still work together, still see each other every day, but thinking about giving his intimacy with Ranpo away makes his throat ache. So he says nothing. I'll just miss you, is all. to which Ranpo replies where am I going??

And this is the magic question at last, because Fukuzawa says to be with Poe and the lights start coming on. He and Poe are friends, why would he leave to be with Poe long enough for Fukuzawa to miss him and wait did you really think I was cheating on you!?

And Fukuzawa is puzzled. Ranpo, we're not a couple, he says with a chuckle.

And Ranpo's speechless for a few seconds because Fukuzawa cannot really be THAT dense. He cannot really think they're not together. He grabs Fukuzawa's shoulders and shakes him, shouting do you live in your own universe or something?! Of course we're a couple!!

Fukuzawa looks taken aback, replying thinly, But we're both omegas.

Ranpo's mind spirals out of place, scouring their shared history and coming up with a truly ridiculous answer for just what the hell is going on.

You've never cheated on me. You've never turned your head for anyone else. He says carefully. Fukuzawa doesn't need to confirm it, Ranpo knows it's true. It's always felt nice, how Fukuzawa likes him and only him. Watching him curl his lip at alphas and hurry back to Ranpo's side was always a little thrill. And a little relief.

You thought I was going to leave you for Poe because he's an alpha.

Again, Fukuzawa doesn't need to confirm it, Ranpo knows it's true.

But you are head over heels totally embarrassingly in love with me just like I always thought, enough that you've been wasting away at the mere thought of me maybe leaving you sometime in the near future.

Fukuzawa looks like he wants to protest. But he doesn't. Then he looks lost. The conversation has veered away from the destination he assumed they were heading toward and Ranpo's named the feeling tightening his chest, even if he did it with far more bravado than necessary. He can't deny it. And he doesn't know what to say - he's still an omega just like Ranpo.

Ranpo drags him down close and smiles a little too sharply. If you want dynamics that bad I'll be your alpha for tonight.

Fukuzawa comes back to work with a scar on the back of his neck and nobody presses the subject.

His husband came back from the war, I guess, Yosano mutters, making everyone struggle to hide their laughter.

[skybson]

My Top 25 Costumes from Star Trek : The Original Series

8. Kirk's "Modified" Command shirt

[wwillywonka]

rewatching where no man has gone before and it's wild how different spock's characterisation is in this versus the rest of the series. like i know logically (haha) that the episode was so early that the show and nimoy didn't really have a grasp on the character yet (made evident by the "one of my ancestors married a human woman" line), but it also strikes me that this is technically kirk's first episode in timeline (production) order, meaning jim and spock have barely started to get to know each other. it's obvious from the chess game that they're already very close and likely have been joined at the hip since their very first meeting, so i like to think that spock is almost, ya know, giddy at this point, adjusting to the comforting warmth and joy and security he feels just by being around jim all the time because it's all so new, because he's never had anything like this before. spock likes jim so much and so immediately and wants to get to know him better and feels safe enough around him to let jim get to know him better, too. the interaction at the end, "i felt for him, too" and "there might be some hope for you yet, mr. spock." followed by a very not-subtle, fond smile from our dear vulcan first officer, just stands out so much against the rest of the series. young spock and his brand new blossoming crush for his captain and he hasn't gotten to the point where he's afraid of those feelings yet, just basking in how nice it feels to have a proper friend. so damn cute. it fills me with butterflies.

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[ap-kinda-lit]

Before raiding Area 51

After raiding Area 51

[trek-tracks]

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,

b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,

c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,

e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and

f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,

b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,

c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,

e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and

f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

[spockeveryday]

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[vildo]

Pick your fighter

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Episodes that won so hard they automatically get to go to the finale under the cut:

The Corbomite Maneuver: Here & here

The Enemy Within: Here & Here

[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)

[olivrsm]

[kirkscarr]

i love how in the pilot episode they put kirk in these really like normal slacks. right.

….

…and they stuck spock in fucking??? tights???? MR SPOCK? those CANNOT be regulation.

[silusvesuius]

nnnnnnnnnnnnno maa'am

[chernobog13]

Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (George Takei), early in his career aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as head of astrosciences.

Yes, I know he's wearing an Operations badge instead of a Sciences badge, despite wearing a blue shirt. This was only the second pilot, so the production team was still figuring things out.

[trek-tracks]

Space, the final frontier.

That is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to explore

The strange new worlds of our outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a five-year mission

And, by opposing, end it. To go—to seek,

Once more; and by “to seek” to say we find

The new life and new civilizations

Where man has gone not: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To go, to seek;

To seek, perchance to find—ay, there's the rub:

For in these voyages what dreams may come,

When we have boldly gone whence we have not,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes a mission of so long a life.

For who would bear the Enterprise of time,

The starship’s wrong, admirals’ contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy treks,

When he himself might make his voyage on

With a bare warp core? Who would tribbles bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the hope of something to be found,

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn

We travel and return, puzzling our will,

And makes us wish to solve those ills we have

And fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience makes explorers of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is glistened o'er with the stars of thought,

And Enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents warp ahead

And seize the name of action.