#also i should be clear that this post is about tos. like it just doesnt apply to aos un the same way. sorry.

[submarinerwrites]

star trek tos is about jim silently asking “would you still love me if i was a worm” and spock silently responding “i would love you even if you were a silicon-based life-form who secretes an unknown corrosive substance capable of killing me. i know that you would love me if i were a gaseous cloud who could not touch you or speak. on my planet we know there will be always be time enough for everything. love knows no physical form, no death, no end. but my soul will always know yours, jim kirk. and that love is as singular as it is irrevocable.”