#slightlytreks

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i feel like i have to watch SNW through the lens of ‘the show runners are just playing barbies’.

would spock do that? not in canon, but this isn’t canon this is a pool party at the dream house where there’s a cannonball contest off the deep end.

would these people ever end up together in the published material? nah, but it’s fun to smash the dolls’ faces together and make them kiss.

barbies!

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gay irl

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my ancestors are so disappointed

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Spock appearing at Jim’s side when he is needed most, an occurrence we see so many times over the original series and the movies, is great. yadda yadda, they’re married they’re in love they’re t’hy’la (though i am never not feral for this don’t mistake me).

but the beauty is in devotion. it is in that kind of love that doesn’t rest rooted within only feeling but in choice and said choice is made over, and over.

Spock is devoted to Jim. doting. stern when it’s needed because he truly has Jim’s best interests at heart. it’s all the best parts of friendship wrapped in tender affection interspersed with the gentle knowing of another person and

god i love them for it.

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sometimes i get in a mood and begin to feel truly, deeply, for spock’s struggles, especially as a young boy.

as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman who is still, even at 29 years old, trying to figure herself out and beginning to comb over the stages of her life with a shiny new fine-toothed comb, i mourn. i mourn for a spock who was willfully misunderstood his entire life. vulcans are capable of so much intelligence and that extends to the emotional. the adults in his life could not have missed the applicable nuance that should have been applied to him, and their IDIC ideals should have crafted in them a curiosity about who he could become.

and yet such a little boy, soft and wondering and bright eyed as any child would be, was looked on with cold eyes and colder shoulders. we see this plainly in aos but i believe it happened in tos as well, given how spock’s shame in thinking of jim’s friendship caused him much emotional upheaval.

and so i mourn, because he is me, and he is all of us who are coming to terms with who we are later in life. he didn’t deserve the narrowed eyes, furrowed brows, and the whining questions of “why won’t you just be like us?”.

and neither did i. and neither did you.

but spock crafted a life from what others despised that he enjoyed, and he found a man to share it all with in friendship and…more—no matter the eyerolls and the disdain from others. it gives me hope on the dark days, because we all know people like this who have fought their way to happiness and i am as inclined to be so determined.

i want to be a little more like spock.

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No, wait it gets so much better.

"Should you be somewhere, Spock?"

"Nowhere but here, Doctor."

THEY'RE SO IN LOVE.

Captain Kirk has been stabbed in his quarters, apparently by Ensign Bearclaw. Kirk crawls toward his communication terminal to call for help, but collapses before he reaches it… 

On the bridge, Spock becomes aware that something is wrong with Kirk. He orders a medical team to the captain’s cabin and joins them there himself. Dr. McCoy and the other medical officers are unable to open the sealed door, but Spock pulls it open with his bare hands. Kirk is rushed to Sickbay…(x)

Star Trek #53 - You’re, Dead Jim,  Star Trek: The Original Series (DC Comics, Series One)

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mmm fic has spock who goes feral for jim?? spock who craves jim like some crucial part of his body is missing?? spock who has to touch and hold and kiss and cherish jim no matter the consequences?(;$/):?

AUTHOR I WILL KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH

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so we’re just supposed to go on with life as normal after spock in ST:ID explains that at his own apparent death in the volcano, he accepted the outcome of his circumstances and chose not to let emotion overwhelm him, and then when said acceptance loses him the woman he loves, once again we find him muting his emotions and going on with life no matter how much he feels her loss, only for us to see him then ravaged by emotion he cannot extricate himself from to the point of verbal admission and physical evidence à la tears when jim dies in front of him, like this is no big deal?

it cannot be done. i am compromised.

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sheesh

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Posted to the wall of the Enterprise

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i love seeing people i’ve followed for years fall into The Trap that is star trek. welcome to the mud pits soldier. get comfortable.

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quit using us spirk shippers to gain numbers on your polls you know we can’t resist that shit

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a human, a romulan, and a klingon walk into a bar…

…and that’s the plot of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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she really said fuck the prime directive

In 1996, Star Trek fan Barbara Adams attended jury duty for the Whitewater trial, the high-profile case which involved acting President Bill Clinton. Amid the controversy of a presidential scandal, a smaller oddity arose as Adams wore her Starfleet uniform each day during the hearing.

She attended 8 court sessions before she was ultimately dismissed for talking to the press.

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spock doesn’t have a bowl cut, stop saying he has a bowl cut. he has baby bangs. he was the first indie girl and honestly, love that for him.

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hey did Gene know what kind of intimacy he was crafting with Vulcans and their touch telepathy?

sex is one thing but holding hands and touching palms and intertwining fingers for us hopeless romantics means far more and did he know?? did he understand what it means to us for the simple touch of skin to imply the closest of bonds? did he get that the caress of fingertips means so much to us humans who see such things as far more affectionate than a kiss on the mouth??

hands are beautiful and touch is a specific sort of kindness and did he know what he was doing?

probably not. but we won anyway 😎