#insane vulcan physiology i love you

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happy birthday amok time the star trek episode that made me go "haha maybe hes in heat or something" and then 10 minutes later go "HES ACTUALLY IN HEAT?"

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When someone wanna try to talk shit about Leonard "Bones" McCoy as a Star Trek doctor on this the day of our Lord right in front of my croissant:

We a touch touchy 'bout our Boanz, fren. That's our BONES.

You best be careful with your words when the doc's name come out that mouth, dumplin'.

Oh you think you got somethin' to say about Leonard Horatio McCoy? You wanna square up?

Do I have to roll up my sleeves and get to fisticuffs on behalf of my Sweet Southern Gentleman's honour?

*Menacingly* Oh bless your heart, dear. Bless your heart.

You must like the taste of hospital food.

Inspired by this post on reddit of someone attempting to shade Bones but the Trekkies let. Them. Have it.

(I'm really just kidding here guys, please don't in all seriousness be mean to anyone on the internet. Have civil discussions, don't call the police on me please-)

Gif sources: Gfycat

Edit:

My actual response to the reddit thread about Bones bc you know I simply couldn't resist picking up for Bones. (*shaky voice* I love him, dad.)

How you say something can matter just as much as what, though.

Do your best to be respectful and civil to each other; after all, we are all here because we love Star Trek. IDIC!🖖💚

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"Bones isn't saying he is 100% ignorant about the physiology of Vulcans, he is saying that he feels uncomfortable as a professional carrying out an experimental procedure that he has never done firsthand in those conditions. There were a lot of factors that made this particular event very stressful for Bones.

While he has read about the procedure in practice, he has never done any real-world field application of the Vulcan surgical techniques and training that he did receive.

He's not saying "I don't know how to do this" -- clearly, because he does the procedure successfully.

He is saying "I've never done this procedure in real life on a living Vulcan; as a medical professional, this is a highly unusual and a risky situation with the stressors compounded (ship shaking all over the place, experimental blood transfusions, attempted murder and mayhem afoot).

He is saying "I'm scared to do this on my best friend slash the best first officer in the fleet plus his dad who is an immensely valuable diplomat in this insane set of circumstances."

What sane doctor doesn't feel nervous about performing a highly experimental medical procedure plus surgery on two individuals who have no backup blood on board if things go sour? (Spock was able to experimentally generate just enough Vulcan blood to do the procedure so if anything went awry, they'd both die).

Plus the fact that the ship was getting thrown all over the place while he was performing delicate heart surgery . . . I feel like all things considered, McCoy had a justifiable right to be nervous and say so.

That's also something I loved about his character; he was fallible, humble, and had no qualms voicing when he felt out of his depth or uncomfortable. But in that same breath, if someone -- anyone -- needed his help despite his reservations, he'd always step up to the plate to try to help."

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Tony Stark Is Part Vulcan. Pass It On.

Ok, before y'all roll your eyes at my theory and brush it off as some wannabe crossover, you really need to consider the possibility.

First of all, a traditional male Vulcan name is five letters long, starts with S and ends with K. Examples being Spock, Sybok, Sarek, Surak, etc. Therefore Stark is not only a viable Vulcan name but it is also a logical one.

Moreover, Tony posesses many qualities that fit with Vulcan biology. The obvious one being his smarts. However, he also has the tendency to forget about time and insanely focus himself upon a single project, very much like how Vulcans can choose to give something their entire attention (or lack thereof in the case of pain). He also goes way longer than is healthy for a human without sleep and the man eats like a bird - missing meals when he's so heavily focused. It's canonical that Vulcans can go weeks without sleep, and longer than a human without food and water. Vulcans have also been known for being able to live with low levels of oxygen for a time (Oxygen running out tomorrow? Not a problem for Tony).

Vulcan physiology would also account for his shorter and stocky frame. And the fact that Tony is very isolated relationship wise except for the few that he has deemed family with whom he shares bond-like qualities.

Plus his sass can rival Spock's.

Basically, he's retained certain Vulcan characteristics but because the Vulcan blood has been watered down through the generations he also doesn't have the control that we normally associate with Vulcans, making him appear to just be some erratic human being.

I'd also like to point out that Spock is canonically related to Sherlock Holmes, and that Downey has played both men of iron. Thus it only seems logical that the MCU is some bizarre parallel universe where everything has come full circle and Tony is related to a Vulcan.

Here's what I propose:

The year is 1895 and a V'Tosh Kator comes to Earth out of curiosity, without the VSA's knowledge, of course, and explicitly against their version of the Prime Directive too. However he comes anyways and falls in love with the bizarre humans and their strange illogical ways. It's easy enough for him to hide his ears with a funny hat (I direct you to Spock in any TOS episode where they visit a non-interference planet), and honestly this is the time of folks like Oscar Wilde - no one blinks twice at a slightly eccentric man in a funny hat. He gets along swimmingly with the Dandies and even charms his fair share of upper Victorian society. He meets a woman, perhaps from a family of some note, and marries her, using his telepathic abilities to have her disregard his ears whenever she sees him without a hat. A year later she bears his child.

The infant, of course, is born with green blood and pointed ears.

However, this is the end of the 19th century, when all sorts of wonderful things such as radiation were being discovered and some children were born with a lot weirder birth defects than just pointed ears. Thus the family intends to keep the oddness of their daughter a shameful secret, but press forward nevertheless. After all, once she's older her ears are easy enough to tuck away under a bonnet, or hide with a Gibson hairstyle.

Her father, however, does not stick around long enough to find out how she does it, deciding that he's had enough of family life shortly after his daughter was born, and so he stows away in the night, finally leaving Earth and any cares that he interfered behind.

Sure enough, the girl grows up ashamed of her oddities and only knowing her father through her mother's tales of an eccentric Dandy who stole her heart.

And then the Great War breaks out and suddenly there are much more important things than shameful ears. The girl has always been frighteningly intelligent, and she decides to put her knowledge to good use, training as a nurse to help the wounded soldiers.

That's how she meets her future husband.

Sent home from the war mere months before the end due to his injuries, the girl with the slightly too-large hat is the nurse that makes him whole again. He falls in love and asks her to marry him, and when she hesitates he wonders if it's his injuries holding her back. To his surprise she removes her hat. And explains that it's not his deformities, but her own that make her hesitate.

He laughs and pulls her forward into a kiss, determined never to let her go. After all, when you're missing a leg and a handful of fingers, pointy ears are nothing to be concerned about.

They marry shortly after the war and nine months later the girl gives birth to a strapping young boy, secretly pleased that his blood appears red and that his ears are thankfully curved.

The birth had complications though, and she doesn't make it through the night. She lives long enough to hold her son one last time. She lives long enough to name him Howard.

Shortly after her death her mother passes away also, leaving her husband with a decent sized fortune to raise Howard. He decides to leave his son with his wife's maiden name, in remembrance of her.

Howard Stark grows up to be a household name, and we all know the story from here.

By the time that Tony is born the Vulcan blood is watered down and the internal organs have all realigned into human position which is why Tony doesn't set off any medical alarms in our day and age. Yes he's retained some Vulcan characteristics, but they're passed off as the quirks of Tony Stark. He's Spock without the need for logic.

In conclusion, the evidence would suggest that Tony Stark is part Vulcan, and this is how he's going to survive Endgame. Pass it on.