#alexander tos

[skybson]

3x10 - Plato's Stepchildren

[diioonysus]

red + art

[your-name-is-jim]

Interviewer: Are you very fond of Alexander? Gene Roddenberry: As a matter of fact, I am. I have Mary Renault's new Oxford book―in fact, I'd have everything in the bookstores a few years ago. Passionate admirer of Alexander. Passionate man. [...] Interviewer: There's a great deal of writing in the STAR TREK movement now which compares the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion to the relationship between Kirk and Spock―focusing on the closeness of the friendship, the feeling that they would die for one another― Gene Roddenberry: Yes. There's certainly some of that with―certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal―we never suggested in the series―physical love between the two. But it's the―we certainly had the feeling the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style in the 23rd Century. [He looks thoughtful] That's very interesting. I never thought of that before. [From Shatner: Where No Man (1979)]

Sooo I watched the new docuseries Alexander: The Making of a God and I was hit by indirect Kirk/Spock feelings because I remembered this interview. And of course I had to make a gifset about it. :)

[iguanadonis]

i'm a pianist making a star trek music album

here's song 2, an electroswing arrangement of Alexander Courage's TOS theme and Uhura's "Beyond Antares"

song 1 here

[etakeh]

Worf was trending on Father's Day.

and they say Twitter isn't funny anymore

[defconprime]

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 3: SPOCK (star trek) VS NINA AND ALEXANDER TUCKER (FullMetal Alchemist...)

[crashpit]

[sassyjaneway]

My favorites

[countesspetofi]

Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Grace Lee Whitney guest stars in "The Handsome Salesman," episode 5 of the fifth season of The Real McCoys (original air date Nov 2, 1961).

Whitney plays half of a husband and wife team of door-to-door cosmetics salespeople; he sells to women, she sells to men, and they both employ a flirtatious sales pitch. When they try to sell to the unsophisticated Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, each believes the other's affections are starting to stray and jealous hijinks ensue.

Other Trek connections: This episode was directed by David Alexander, who directed two episodes of Star Trek.

[knittinglizards]

i think in addition to the obvious limiting factor of the writers' politics and biases, the stories in star trek (tos at least, the only other series i know is tng and i don't remember it well at all) that deal with oppression and Space Racism tend to be flimsy at best at least partly bc of the Choice to claim that oppression just doesn't exist on earth in the 23rd century (wild!) and that they generally portray the alien cultures relevant to the story in particular as entirely monocultural (just kinda lazy writing imo and denies any significant sense of historical conflict/makes the violence they try to present seem petty)

[t4toro]

looking @ these two photos, dreaming of what cld’ve been a film abt alexander the great n hephaestion starring william shatner n leonard nimoy, sighs wistfully

[kashilascorner]

Romulan Commander my beloved ❤️ hope i did you some justice queen

[defconprime]

[marvelousmoose]

it's about being gay

it's about being trans

it's about how I thought it was me, my mind that couldn't move a pebble. They even told me I was lucky they bothered keep me around at all, and I believed them. The arms and legs of everybody's whim. Look down, don't meet their eyes. Smile. Smile. These great people, they were gods to me. But you showed me what they really are. And now I know- don't you see. It's not me, it's not my size, it's them! It's them! It's them!

it's about pro wrestling