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lesbian-david-tennant · 12 days ago

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I just watched Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and wow that is also some gay shit

"I have been and always shall be yours" FUCK

Spock going in for the vulcan kiss through the glass and then Kirk hesitating and spreading out all his fingers instead. you would friendzone him while he's dying? diabolical

"of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human" what if I ate glass

I'm so glad I know that Spock comes back after this, because if I watched this in cinemas in 1982 and I had to live with this ending... I would be WEEPING. I would be in full mourning for 2 years

I just watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture and wow that really is some gay shit

I'd seen the "this simple feeling" scene, I was prepared for that. but I wasn't prepared for the full extent of the conversion therapy allegory

and then Spock saying "it knows only that it needs but like so many of us, it does not know what" while gazing at Kirk

and then the whole fucking resolution being that V'ger needs to discover something more, "a human quality, our capacity to leap beyond logic," through union with a human

it clearly parallels Spock and Kirk with V'ger and Will and directly implies that 'this simple feeling' is love, romantic love

WHAT THE FUCK I can only begin to understand what my fandom ancestors felt seeing this in 1979

#other general thoughts on the film:#the Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities references! I love when they get a bit literary with it #the pacing is much better than the first one. and generally better writing but there were still a lot of plot holes I noticed like #why didn't The Reliant sensors detect Khan and his crew? how did Khan recognise Chekov when he literally wasn't there in 'space seed'?#how did khan and his crew take over The Reliant so quickly? how do they all know how to operate the ship?#the costumes are also better than the last one but that's a low bar. don't fix what aint broken. the TOS costumes are cunty and iconic #the differentiation of department and rank is really unclear and inconsistent and it's just plain boring #also I already knew the AOS movies were derivative but holy shit- Khan. Dr Carol Marcus. the kobayashi maru. Kirk and Spock vulcan kissing #or ~pressing their hands together~ through the glass. literally nothing original about those films #star trek #star trek ii: the wrath of khan #kirk/spock

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