#rewatching tos

[flippyspoon]

The best part of Amok Time is actually when McCoy goes to T'Pau like "My buddy is having a day, can I give him some drugs?"

And she's like, "Yeah whatever, this gay shit is ridiculous, let's get this done."

[ffcrazy15]

(Thoughts on watching The Galileo Seven:)

Man everyone is being such a dick to Spock in this episode. Like guys I get the whole "three people have to stay behind and might not get rescued" thing sucks, but you are Starfleet officers, you should be volunteering to let your fellow crewmen get to safety first! And Spock is in the extremely unenviable position here of deciding who of you is necessary to get the shuttle into orbit. Y'all need to lay off the poor guy and just follow orders if you want any of you to get home.

[spacelessbian]

I can't believe Spock's parents are aggressively making out every time they are on screen

[homosexula]

there is always some kind of crazy bullshit happening to my friend mr spock. spores. mating cycles. amoeba thing. blindness. painful mind melds. brain theft. babygirl has been thru it all

[karmelarts]

the biggest heart eyes you ever done seen this side of the galaxy

[doesnotloveyou]

watching a star trek TOS episode where a starship captain has a psychosis that makes him aggressive and manipulative. he kidnaps kirk and spock, tortures his doctor, kills another mental patient, and threatens the safety of the Enterprise crew.

despite this, kirk continues to show him dignity and respect. instead of villainizing him, kirk reminds him his mental illness is not his fault and the awful things it has caused him to do are not who he truly is.

when spock finally shoots the man you think "well that's the end of that guy." but then we learn spock intentionally only stunned him, and the man is last seen getting mental health treatment. he is unaware of what has passed or who he is, and is confused to be referred to as "Captain" but he returns the respect he receives

Mental illness was treated better in a '60s scifi show than it is now.

[idlesuperstar]

this speaks to me on a molecular level

[wwillywonka]

working on my style

[kyurochurro]

"gentlemen i believe... we are lost."

(entering the new year with a stv drawing since im still on a st movie kick from the marathon my dad and i had HEHE >:D)

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen Captain Kirk drive a computer to suicide I’d have 15 20 cents.

[sevibun]

i think we’d be best friends

[not-equippedforthis]

i will never not love star trek b plots. yeah we accidentally warped back in time and now we have an american pilot aboard who is stuck between two worlds and wants to go home to his life and family but cannot in fear of disrupting the timeline of the universe. yeah we have to break into the military to steal back the tapes containing our ship being spotted so we don't irreversibly change history. yeah we have to consider the cost of a single human in the face of catastrophy. yeah we have to bend all laws of physics and logic to slingshot ourselves back to the present and it might not even work. yeah we might be stuck in time forever. yeah...also kirk's computer got hacked and it won't stop flirting with him.

[spacelessbian]

Shatner is such a pretty boy in The Enemy Within.

[emilinqa]

star trek tos is deeply entrenched in its identity as a 60s tv show for better or for worse (both) but i think retroactively the city on the edge of forever ends up showcasing this more now since its set in a time we can now as 21st century viewers connect with being closer to the time it was produced, rather than the nebulous 23rd. it's interesting because for me i think the single episode informs the way i connect an imagined future to the actual real 1960s the show was written in, particularly in the language and the way relationships between characters are depicted in the way they speak to one another. in that single episode it suddenly feels that the coded language everyone uses, the subtext, the hints and euphemisms is a necessity of the world rather than a feature of the show. and suddenly (for me, at least) that totally shapes the rest of the way i view the rest of the original series. though the way they speak to one another doesn't really tangibly change all that much, when they're placed in the setting of the 1930s the way that kirk and spock speak to each other and about one another entirely shifts.

edith asks kirk in regards to his relationship with spock "I still have a few questions I'd like to ask about you two. Oh, and don't give me that 'questions about little old us' look, you know as well as I do how out of place you two look here." which. well. hello. and later when she asks "Why does Spock call you captain? Were you in the war together?" and kirk says "we... served together" its like yes the obfuscation of their identities and who they are to one another is a necessity of the plot and time travel reasons but i also can't pretend that particular response doesn't color kirks line 2 episodes later in amok time "you've been called the best first officer in the fleet, that's an... enormous asset to me" in a different light. the necessity of secrets and closed doors and frantically having to conceal themselves and their tiny little apartment with a pair of twin beds and ediths "you, by his side as if you've always been there and always will" and "'Captain'? See, even when he doesn't say it, he does" well i can't act like it doesn't change the way i see their enforced professional distance in other episodes, even when they're back safe in their own century. its why The conversation cut from the original harlon ellison script hits seriously i think. it's like a deeply personal confession of desire for a life that could never be: "On my world the nights are very long. The sound of the silver bird against the sky is very sweet. My people know there is always time enough for everything. You would be comfortable there" and a wistful acceptance ("All the time in the world...") in another time in another life in another place it could be but just not this one. spock's endless resignation. well it just changes everything for me. star trek is about the 1960s!!!!!!

[arttsuka]

Quick drawing

[lobotr-on]

spock doodles tn!!!!