#spock: because??? that's literally my job??? (also i'm not jealous why would i be jealous)

[wwillywonka]

Set course for Delta Vega.

1 x 04 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

[a-most-beloved-fool]

What do you think about the AOS Kirk x Old Spock ship? I would have liked to see a deleted scene in AOS2 or AOS3 or at least a hint that Aos Kirk visited old spock, not for something romantic or sexual but simply because they had a friendship, old spock seems to be so lonely….

I can totally see the appeal of this ship for doomed romance reasons! It could be very compelling, if done well. (I think I've seen a few fics like that, but I haven't read them, in part because I like happy endings, and in part because I do prefer it when they're with the one from their Own universe, but there's a hell of a lot of potential. actually, there was one that i read because it was mistagged, but it was also. like. character assassination of the aos guys To The Extreme, like holy hell wtf NONE OF THEM WOULD ACT LIKE THAT. i get that aos kirk is apparently your little pooky but WHY did you decide that Every Other AOS character is apparently the devil incarnate? why are spock and uhura like that?? what did SULU do??? god, even bones??? wtf.)

I personally don't really ship it because I do kind of think that Prime wouldn't want to take Kirk away from his own Spock. (I know Spock is technically with Uhura, but. I'm a gay Spock truther, I'm afraid.)

I also kinda think that Prime would still miss his own Kirk and wouldn't actually be able to just. move on to a Kirk from a different universe. This wasn't the same Kirk he'd lived his life with, after all. He was still Kirk, but he didn't have the memories and experiences. (I think Prime would feel irrationally guilty about this - he'd remember his own Kirk still accepting him after the Fal Tor Pan, when he didn't remember their life together, and he'd ask himself why he couldn't bring himself to do the same for this Kirk.)

I could easily see early-aos Kirk crushing hard on him, though, (at least with how I've seen him written in fics) just because, well, Prime is kind to him, and genuinely cares. Like, if you've had a bit of a messed up life, and no good parental figures or support systems, I can see how the sort of blatant adoration Prime would direct towards Kirk would just. instantly win him over. Prime smiles at him and tells him 'good job' very sincerely and Kirk starts experiencing shrimp emotions. (Though he's been introduced to a bit of kindness by then, mostly from Bones and Pike, but still. I think it would hit hard.)

Of course, then his Spock would warm to him, and they'd just kinda connect and many of the ooey good feelings caused by Prime might snap onto Spock, and Kirk would very suddenly go from "haha i want this old man to pat me on the head please what who said that" to "oh fuck oh shit i'm in love with this guy and really want him to like me as much as his old man self does".

I do love the idea of them having a friendship, though. Prime does seem lonely, and I can't imagine ANY Kirk being. just. okay, with letting any version Spock be alone. I feel like Kirk would randomly show up at Prime's house, hotdish* in tow, and be like, "I brought dinner, get in here, we're socializing!" or call him up out of the blue to complain about Spock or paperwork or just to talk.

Prime, I expect, is delighted by this. And, just like Kirk would get protective over Prime, I think Prime would be really protective of both Kirk and his younger counterpart. Kirk could call him at literally any time of day or night, and Prime would answer without question.

(Personally, my favorite dynamic is Kirk adopting Prime as his penpal and friend, and then Spock getting. confusedly jealous, while really most of what Kirk is doing is talking to Prime about his totally hopeless crush on Spock and ask for wooing advice (which Prime only occasionally gives. he can't change the universe too much after all). Prime, of course, is absolutely delighted to be able to watch this younger kirk and spock fall in love. idk, he's a sappy old man. it's an excuse to be unbearably sentimental about his own past. he watches them court and his heart aches, but it's sweet, y'know? it's a sweet pain.)

(and of course the real best case scenario involves kirk and spock pulling kirk prime out of the nexus and depositing him on spock prime's doorstep. let prime have a happy ending, dammit! give him his kirk back! and then all four of them have supremely awkward double dates lmao. kirk and spock prime are Besties while spock and kirk prime are. uncomfortable.)

also do bare in mind that i haven't actually seen all the aos movies whoopsie so take this. with salt.

*kirk is a midwesterner, so you know it's hotdish and not casserole. he has very strong feelings about this.

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Series I'm currently on : TOS

Episodes watched: 01x07-01x09

Episode names:

What Are Little Girls Made Of

Miri

Dagger of The Mind

Thoughts:

What Are Little Girls Made Of

The title sounds really creepy, like who was in charge of that ?

Everyone dramatically looking into the camera during their close ups

Come alone I definitely won't kill you

" were you ever engaged before Spock ?" We're not at that part of the series yet ma'am

Ah , security officers on an isolated planet with the captain I wonder what's going to happen

Yup , they died they weren't even there for 5 minutes. He was pushed by this alien dude that keeps creeping around like a Scooby Doo villain

Why does star fleet just keep sending very small groups of people to be isolated on planets with no inhabitants in the name of science

Like this dude created androids because he was lonely and they have the audacity to be surprised by this

Of all things he could have had this android do why make her kiss Kirk ?

Shatner must have gotten dizzy on this weird spinning table thing

" mind your own business Mr. Spock I'm tired of your half breed interference" ????? Like they just cut to something else

How many times is Kirk going to get duplicated

"I'm not a bad guy I just want to kill all humans and turn them into androids so that we can be the superior race" sound like a bad guy to me man

It's the dick rock from the meme

I love how Spock interacted with Android Kirk for less than a minute and immediately was like this isn't my captain it's an imposter, security we're going to follow that man

Scooby Doo villain becomes philosophical and tries to killed evil doctor after that , he dies in the process

Evil doctor is an Android like the captain has been telling everyone since they got there ( the makeup job for the reveal is really bad)

Whoo Android Kirk has died

Man nurse chapel has had a rough few days she just wanted to see her fiance

Also apparently the thing about " I'm tired of you meddling Mr Spock " thing was a sign for Spock to know it wasn't him and that he needed help

Spock was offended by being called a half breed

Other episodes under the cut

Miri

Earth the second

Zombie apocalypse ?

" everything looks like it's from the 1960s on earth" " man the 1960s we're ugly"

Yo I was right it's basically a zombie apocalypse

Spock went outside with the security crew the security crew is gonna die

A plague that kill adults

Ominous children sounds

They've been infected with the plague who would have guessed that going down with no protective gear or understanding of what your getting into would cause this

Spock's fine though cause he's Spock ( that's literally the explanation they give )

Also the security team hasn't died yet and I'm actually surprised

Army filled with 300 -400 y/o children

Jim gets attacked by zombie while he's attempting to talk to the army of children

" I may not be affected by the virus but I'm a carrier even if I wasn't I wouldn't want to go back to the ship without you captain " how can they make Spock so gay without trying.

The kids stole their communicators and machines so now their stuck with 300 year old equipment

300 y/o girl that the crew has been taking care of becomes jealous of Janice because the crew have found cures and will leave so she goes to the child army to create revenge plan

Child army makes more ominous noises while they surround captain Kirk with clubs and beat him

Why leave the man who is eager to inject himself with a strange liquid , alone with said strange liquid prepared in a hypo

Like he injected himself and went unconscious

But he's fine , cause he's bones

Dagger of The Mind

Oooo sensory drugs , my favorite kind

Why are they sending a barrel of drugs down to a colony ?

A man in the strange human sized cargo box that got beamed aboard

Space prison / mental asylum

Dangerous criminal is the one who was in the large human size box

Man this guy is really effective with his neck chops

" I just want to strike a deal " is holding a gun

The criminal gets apprehended and claims to a doctor at the prison. Turns out he's right , arguments ensue between bones , Kirk and Spock

"beam down and come look at everything yourself captain " cause nothing ever goes wrong when that happens

Every time a pretty woman shows up you can see Spock sigh like oh shit here we go again, these guys are going to go monkey brain again

They started going down in the elevator and Kirk just starts hugging the doctor because it's going fast ? Like bro that's excessive

Look into the strange swirly light box to calm down

Never mind the swirly light box is evil

The criminal doctor guy keeps trying to tell people that the head doctor is gonna kill the captain , its somewhere between working and not working

I've been wandering if this was too early on for vulcans to have telepathic abilities or if Spock was going to try to mind meld with this guy to find the truth

Sometimes Jim makes some really bad judgement calls like he just sits in the hypnosis chair and is like hey it be cool if you used it on me and now it's being used against him.

Also Jim needs to stop falling in love so easily

These guys have replicas of star ship cabins .

I completely forgot that they established that these places have force fields to keep people from transporting themselves out at the beginning of this episode until it was brought up again just now as plot point

Spock to the rescue

Evil head doctor get brain washed by his own creation

Spock awkwardly sitting in the corner of the room while Jim makes out with Helen

Oof the head doctor died

Every episode they just kinda leave like nothing happened and I'm starting to find that kinda weird