#star trek the enemy within

[daftmooncretin]

rewatched the star trek episode where kirk splits into two guys, (good kirk and bad kirk) and i love it because like bad kirk is this violent, alcoholic, screaming maniac and then good kirk is just like….????? a sad bottom? such interesting creative choices gene my dude

[chadepitanga]

fav star trek character: this THING

[starberry-cupcake]

they just did all these little things to each other throughout decades and new versions need to get on this level of being weird with each other (affectionately)

[trek-tracks]

do NOT ask Spock to beta your fic unless you want to be sic

[spockeveryday]

[majormiles]

SCOTT: If this doesn't work, I don't know what will.

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Nothing to see here, just Kirk’s gentle double taking solace in the way Spock holds the doglike alien’s gentle duplicate.

[vildo]

Fixed it

[terranceholdsapencil]

Alien animal and its just the CUTEST dog in the CUTEST costume ever Im MELTING

IM SORRY LOOK AT HIM

And then its like. "Theres this evil, ferocious version!! Because of something going wrong when beaming it up!! Theres this evil animal!!" And this is the 'evil' version in question:

My baby boy

[jumbledbee]

I know everyone always talks about The Enemy Within for that one scene, but like.. what about the part where Spock is talking abt how Jim’s personality got split?

Like, why did they both perk up and start giving each other googoo eyes at the mere mention of love?

[fabuladorah]

Love that in order to demostrate who is the Evil Kirk, they had him put on maskara.

[iamenits]

The Enemy Within

[to-spirkly-go]

Clueless. Both of them.

[blanc-ci]

Thinking about when McCoy and Spock walk in on Kirk in that crazy make-out scene in ‘Elaan of Troyius’ and how after McCoy explains the tears love potion thing Spock says

“It is true then, Captain?”

In such a particular soft tone that my brain wants to interpret it either as concern for Jim essentially being assaulted OR (if you funny spirk lens it) as Spock almost being hurt/in disbelief at Jim being with another woman

Realistically, it may be more along the lines of Spock knowing just how much Kirk hates it when he’s not in control of himself (the most recent one before this being ‘And the Children Shall Lead’ I think?) and immediately going into “I must aid the captain so that he doesn’t do something he will regret” confidant/support mode

[trek-tracks]

Feel free to debate this, but I think we can all agree Bones eagerly claimed "exposure." They didn't actually run out of vegetables but Jim got scurvy anyway

[spockeveryday]