#tos 1x04

[spockeveryday]

[risingchaos]

In honor of me watching 2x01 with the iconic boob window shirt rip (taken from my notes), I’ve decided to reveal what I’ve been doing. I have been taking down each episode as I do a watch of TOS to see how many shirt rips actually happen out of curiosity. Here’s my season one statistics.

State of Star Trek Shirts - Season One TOS

Season Two’s Stats

1x01 - Perfectly intact but Kirk wears a slutty bed robe.

1x02 - Intact, but he is willingly shirtless for a scene.

1x03 - Kirk’s shirt gets torn at the end, shoulder and chest exposed.

1x04 - Somewhat willingly shirtless (and incredibly sweaty) Sulu! And Kirk shoulder rip, right at the end.

1x05 - Evil twin Kirk willingly shirtless.

1x06 - Everyone was intact!

1x07 - Unwillingly shirtless Kirk (technically unwillingly naked)

1x08 - Many shirt rips though nothing scandalous.

1x09 - Intact!

1x10 - Instantly shirtless and sweaty Kirk, opens with it. He fucking walks through the halls shirtless.

1x11 - No exposure.

1x12 - Double no exposure.

1x13 - Triple!

1x14 - Quadrouple! Shit’s getting boring.

1x15 - A Yeoman does get her uniform torn and has to hold up the top half for a while, and Kirk’s own shirt is torn all across the shoulder and chest, exposing titties. He gets all dirty and sweaty too, of course.

1x16 - Perfectly fine once again!

1x17 - Man, boring. Intact.

1x18 - Entirely fine despite a fight in the desert.

1x19 - Intact shirts. Sigh.

1x20 - Shoulder rip down the chest! Plus no undershirt so the silly cropped uniform keeps exposing him.

1x21 - Sigh, intact.

1x22 - Intact.

1x23 - Intact, ladies and gents.

1x24 - My stats are gonna be boring. Intact.

1x25 - I think people exaggerate. Intact.

1x26 - All good.

1x27 - Once again.

1x28 - Intact. Lame.

1x29 - He’s fine! So many shirts!

Keep in mind it’s possible I missed one here or there. Now, complied data.

Out of twenty-nine episodes in season one, only nine had a shirt rip or a shirtless Kirk. Now, that is a lot of shirt rips, but I am a little surprised at it.

That is ~31% of season one.

I wanted to make a pie chart and will continue with this as I watch the remaining two seasons. If I’m missing an episode, please let me know and I’ll fix my data. Do with this information what you will I guess, I just wanted to track stuff. XD

[fexalted]

watching tos for the first time since like, roughly 2012/13-ish? i don't remember what year it was, or why i only got thru most of season 1 before stopping

it's been fun to refresh my swiss cheesed memory with this tho so here's a semi-liveblog of the first 10 eps that i watched over the past couple weeks

1x01 - the man trap

things i remembered beforehand:

salt monster

"plum" uwu

that gay little run and crawl jim does when he's taking cover (it fills me with such delight)

things i did not remember:

how many people died, good god man it's only the first episode

1x02 - charlie x

things i remembered:

jim's bright red exercise pants

that stupid fucking face charlie makes when he uses his powers

not liking this ep at all when i first watched it, possibly due to me being around the same age as charlie at the time

additional thoughts: i enjoyed it more this time and felt more sympathetic for charlie. poor kid needed some parents, and also, like, a hug

1x03 - where no man has gone before

things i remembered:

bones isn't in it :'( (bored) (sad) (missing my bestie)

"James R Kirk"

that post i saw on here recently about how their contacts were made of glass

the only thing i could think about while watching:

their contacts

were made

of GLASS

(yes i understand this was how contacts were made back then. still freaked out by the concept of people putting glass in their eyes on purpose)

1x04 - the naked time

things i remembered:

sweat disease

sulu fencing

oh kathleen

"ONE-MORE-TIME!!"

"love mankind"

spock breakdown (extremely uncomfortable to watch)

bones casually ripping jim's shirt sleeve to jab him in the arm (extremely hilarious every time i think about it)

did not remember:

anything about them almost crashing into a planet lol

jim's little monologue when he gets infected (lmao)

time warp???

additional thoughts: hey remember when they reused this plot in tng and tasha and data fucked (<- literally the only thing i can remember about it) ((edit from future fex: i rewatched that ep. it was wild. tos did it better tho))

1x05 - the enemy within

things i remembered:

unicorn dog :)

evil kirk and poor little meow meow kirk

"I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!"

things not remembered:

dog dies :(

evil kirk's killer eyeliner

additional thoughts: say what you will about shatner / his acting but this ep is Peak shatner performance and a lot of fun to watch. he put his whole pussy into it, as the kids say these days

1x06 - mudd's women

things remembered:

could not forget harry mudd if i tried

the women are color coded like the powerpuff girls lol

they're also like, on some kind of drug that keeps them looking young or something

cool costumes tho

i don't have much to say about this one lol, harry's a fun character but the rest of the ep wasn't super interesting to me. did finally learn how to pronounce "ophiuchus" tho so i'll thank it for that

1x07 - what are little girls made of

things remembered:

is this the penis rock episode (it is)

uhhh i think kirk gets put into some kind of spinny machine that makes androids (he does)

more cool costumes (debatable)

things i find funny:

the number of planets we've encountered so far that are populated by like. 2-4 people

the way ruk (the big guy) just picks up and throws kirk like he weighs nothing

so much buildup with kirk and the penis rock and he doesn't even get to hit ruk over the head with it smh

also not a funny moment but i liked the way kirk was able to get a message to spock thru the android kirk, v clever

wait i just realized bones wasn't in this ep either. deducting 1/4 of a star from my mental rating bc i missed him (but apparently not that much)

1x08 - miri

remembered:

planet of children (bc everyone else died of terminal puberty)

"no blah blah blah!"

bones tests his newly discovered, untested cure on himself, in true mad scientist fashion (also spones moment <3)

saw this ep on a "what's your fave 'bad' episode" poll here recently and i can't remember if i thought it was good or bad when i first watched it lol

forgot:

another earth?? there's just a second, identical earth floating around out there?? and (of course) they don't mention it at all for the rest of the episode

300 year old children

oh these kids are so much more annoying than i remembered, however i may just be biased bc i don't like kids shfkshfk

1x09 - dagger of the mind

remember:

absolutely nothing! oh boy!

thoughts:

wow this ep is fucked up!

okay actually i don't think i've seen this one at all before?

usually there'll be moments that jog my memory but the only thing even slightly familiar to me was kirk going "helen don't go!" while in the neutralizer chair, but i could've just seen a clip/gif of it before

i remember skipping episodes in season 1 (i was impatient and wanted to get to city on the edge of forever) but i thought i'd at least made it to halfway thru the season before skipping any

anyway did i mention this ep is fucked up? (star trek really does love to drop an absolutely haunting 50 minutes of television on you and then never address it again, i understand this now. roll credits!)

1x10 - the corbomite maneuver

remember:

uhh

there's a thing out there

it's in the way

preventing them from boldly going, even

looks like an old windows screensaver

i might've skipped this ep too now that i think about it

thoughts:

cute mckirk moment in sickbay :3

i love that this cube has its own theme music whenever its on screen

oh shit it's the sequel to cube: orb

jesus christ that's a big orb

man they really said "okay we've got 3 music tracks and we're gonna get our money's worth out of them"

i gotta say this ep slaps tbh—WAIT HE'S A BABY???

LITTLE BABY MAN

LMAOOOOO

honestly great episode tho i'll stand by that

[dorothygale]

Love Letter: Beloved fellow Swiftie/Trekkie!!! What has been your fave TOS ep so far? I need recs - I haven't been able to get into it 🥲

YES here are some of my faves!! (these are very loose categories, just how i think of them in my head lol) the trouble with tribbles & the city on the edge of forever are definitely my Ultra Faves

fun:

1x04 - the naked time

1x15 - shore leave

2x01 - amok time

2x04 - mirror, mirror

2x15 - the trouble with tribbles

2x17 - a piece of the action

drama:

1x21 - the return of the archons

1x22 - space seed

1x28 - the city on the edge of forever

2x10 - journey to babel

3x11 - wink of an eye

also! idk if you've seen the TOS movies but i think they're very accessible! if you're having trouble with the series you might want to skip the first movie (though it is my beloved) - the trilogy of the 2nd/3rd/4th movies is very good :)

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TOS 1x04 - "Mudd's Women" Review

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[samnotsammy12]

So I’m watching TOS (1x04 Where No Man Has Gone Before) and the thing possessing Mitchell makes a grave for Kirk

The headstone says “James R. Kirk”

Later he’s James T. Kirk

Great job, writers, you’re so good at continuity /s

Anyways TOS is on crack and idk how I feel about it yet

[thisbirdhasceasedtobe]

I actually have more thoughts I'm sorry.

TL;DR

Transport -> Successful Transport = Not Death, either to us or them Transport -> Accident -> Split Personalities = Not death to them, could be death to Us, happens to Kirk

Transport -> Accident -> Duplication = Not Death, either to us or them, could be considered a birth

Transport -> Accident -> Splice = Not death, could be considered a birth

Transport -> Accident -> Fatal Merge = Very death, RIP Commander Sonak

Transport -> Accident -> Splice -> Split = Very death, in fact Murder

Death in Star Trek is, like I jokingly said, hardly worse than the flu, but that's not to diminish how important death still is in the year 2375. I also say that I don't think they'd have the same concept of death as us, and I stand by it, but that concept is certainly more similar than I let on.

We see in DS9's "The Visitor" what a concept of death closest to our own looks like. Benjamin and Jake Sisko are in Engineering on the Defiant studying a subspace anomaly when Ben gets swallowed by the anomaly. Jake spends the next couple years aboard DS9 grieving his father, but the *second* Jake lays eyes on his briefly re-materialized father, Jake funnels all thought into bringing his Father back, studying every bit of knowledge he can get his hands on, sacrificing his whole life to bring his Dad back. To you or I, in our modern world, this would be the height of unhealthy obsession and would absolutely get someone a trip to a psych ward, but to them it shows just how mutable the concept of death is. To Jake, to the people in his life, that glimpse of his father erases nearly any idea that he's *actually* dead.

Let's take a step back and look at The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock. We all know Spock's sacrifice at the end of TWoK, Hallmark made it a Christmas ornament for Roddenberry's sake, but after Spock's death Kirk goes home and does his grieving, that's that, done and dusted. Sarek breaks down the door and calmly asks "did my son put his soul in you," Kirk is reasonably confused and with the stunning realization that Vulcan's have literal, physical souls, begins the quest to "resurrect" Spock. Vulcan's clearly don't share our same concept of Death, and Death in Kirk's mind is plenty flexible enough to grapple with the idea that Spock might not be dead.

When I said the people in the world of Star Trek would have a completely different view of death, this is the distinction I was trying to articulate. Death, for us, is permanent and inevitable. It is neither in Star Trek, and that's the difference that makes everything. People, like Jake and Kirk, still grieve long and fully, but the fundamental difference in permanence and effect leads them to have a significantly less rigid view of the concept.

Spock got his brain stolen in TOS 3x01 Spock's Brain. I dunno about you, but I would certainly call a brainless body a dead one, even if it's being artificially kept alive. If brain death counts as death, then being brainless should also, even if the body is artificially supported.

Kirk gets split in two in TOS 1x04 The Enemy Within by a transporter accident, resulting basically in a 'good' Kirk and an 'evil' one. The original Kirk is no longer there, and this certainly counts as the transporter killing a person, but because of Kirk's subsequent re-integration, it's a non-issue.

"But Jesse," I hear you raise your finger pointedly, "that's just TOS being silly and 60's!" and you'd be correct! But you'd be a fool to think the hijinks stop here!

How about we look at a pair, or rather, two pairs of people who have some experience with transporters. William T. Riker and Bradward Boimler. Both got duplicated the transporter, and in the first place it's the original that returned, in the latter, the copy. Thomas Riker, Will's clone, wasn't discovered for some eight years and no one could have known he was alive. The original Boimler, however, makes it back to the Titan just after his clone, later taking the name William, walks off the Transporter pad.

If, as I claim, the transporter splitting Kirk in half is killing, then surely so should these, right? Well, to you or I, sure. But to them, there's a person who's clearly the original, they know their circumstances. The "original" Riker and Boimler could be said to have died when they were split, but since no one was any the wiser until OG Boimler showed up and Riker Beta was discovered. Are they then considered, retroactively, dead? No, because that's a very silly thing to do, and death in Star Trek is flexible enough a concept to accommodate them all.

As I put in the Tags, I don't view it as death in either our view or in Star Trek's view. I think this is also evidenced by the way transporter suspicion is viewed in-universe. Bones is considered 'quaint' or even 'misguided' over his fear of transporters in The Motion Picture, despite those fears being proven valid just a little bit earlier when Commander Sonak and an Unnamed officer get merged by the recently refit Enterprise's, NCC-1701, transporters and, according to the TMP novelization, essentially turned inside out. Horrific, isn't it? THIS is what a transporter death looks like, this is our first canonical bit of evidence of what a true Transporter Death looks like.

A hundred years later, Reginald Barclay is a lieutenant on the Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, and by this time advances in Transporter tech have made them safer than either flying or driving by orders of magnitude, and Barclay's transporter fear is treated as a psychological problem, with him being directed to Ship's counselor, Commander Deanna Troi. Despite accidents appearing to us as frequent, because it's an easy to use plot point, they're extremely rare in the context of the show and are broadly treated like automitive accidents now.

Let's shift now to using the Transporter for execution. Surely, you could kill with a transporter by sending the occupant into space or re-materializing them in a bulkhead. In fact, the ways you could kill with a Transporter might outnumber the ways you can safely use them. Hey, wait, that almost sounds like what you can do with a car!

Let's commit a murder with the Transporter though. Voyager 2x24.Two crew members transport down, successfully, to a planet. They pick up some samples, one of them has a laugh, they beam back up. Oh no! The crew members got merged into one! One person, a merge of two, is born from their de-materialization. This person's name is Tuvix, a splicing of Lieutenant Commander Tuvok and Neelix. This person is both Tuvok and Neelix, yet neither. A distinct, living sentient being. But ah shoot, the captain misses her bestie and Kes misses her boyfriend, so the choice is made to split Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix. This is, rightfully, treated as a killing. This is another canonical example of what Transporter Death looks like.

In conclusion: it's the re-materialization or lack thereof that makes for a Transporter Death. Since, to successfuly use the transporter requires a re-materialization, successful transport cannot be considered a Transporter Death. It's not Death to them, but if we were to watch someone be beamed away, our only reasonable assumption would be Death.

In Star Trek, the transporter works by converting you as a complete copy from matter to energy containing all information necessary to reassemble you, sends that information wirelessly over a distance to a location where you are then reassembled, molecule by molecule. Since the copy is so perfect you do not perceive any interruption between conversions and everything about you is physically in tact at the end of the procedure (assuming nothing goes wrong, which canonically very rarely happens).

[subbyfoxelf]

[tv review] tos 1x04 "the naked time" (1966)

everybody gets space drunk, tos edition!

it’s just super strange that both tos and tng decided to do this sort of plot so early on in the show when you barely know the characters, but at least in tos’s case the characters are so broad and surface-level that i’m not sure it actually makes that big of a difference.

the tng version of this is honestly a better all-around episode, but this one has the benefit of some of the most wonderfully campy scenes in all of trek. the first is literally how the infection starts. spock and a random redshirt (well, blueshirt technically) beam down to a planet wearing “isolation suits” that look basically like bubble mailers. to make matters even more hilarious, the random blueshirt TAKES HIS GLOVE OFF and sticks his hand UNDER HIS HOOD TO RUB HIS FACE. it is hilariously dumb on this character’s part, but also demonstrates how thoroughly useless the suits are.

later, this same blueshirt loses his shit and threatens everyone with a fucking butter knife? but the other characters and show take this completely seriously? and my fiancx cracked up and said ve was picturing jett reno from discovery in that same situation looking at the guy and just deadpanning, “seriously? you’re threatening me with a butter knife?” anyway, the character stabs himself, and eventually fucking dies??? and mccoy says it makes no sense because “his wounds were not that severe” and like… i know, my dude. it was a butter knife, how did he even have wounds???

there’s plenty more camp to be had throughout the episode, but the other one that really left a lasting impression for me was kirk smacking spock around. i guess we now canonically know that spock is a sad drunk and kirk is an angry drunk.

oh, wait, one more! mccoy dramatically ripping kirk’s sleeve to give him a hypospray was B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

c-rank

[ichayalovesyou]

(Re)Discovering A Strange New Spock: “The Naked Time” (1x04)

Previous: Charlie “X”

Next: The Enemy Within

A meta anthology where I re-examine TOS, especially Spock, in light of the new information Discovery & Strange New Worlds has revealed about him to us.

Onto the Analysis! (SUPER EXCITED for this one!!)

Opening Banter w/ McCoy

Now, the appropriateness of Bones’s comments in regards to Spock’s physiology has been a topic of debate since the moment that the nature of Spock & Bones relationship has come into question.

We know they’re both massive smartasses, the most pointed of Bone’s remarks being “assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood”. Which poses the question, has Spock obnoxiously corrected or split hairs or revealed something he should’ve said much earlier about his own physiology talking to McCoy? We know for a fact the answer is yes, often while also calling Bones ability to do his job into question a la “beads and rattles”.

If my speculation is right, McCoy probably expected Spock to go off on some “um, actually” monologue. Instead he gets a snide remark about how happy Spock is his physiology is not Human. Ironically, admitting to delight, which is of course, an emotion.

If there is anything that notoriously, repeatedly pisses Bones off is Spock looking down upon humanity and being disgusted by the humanity that is within himself. That flares Bones temper more than any insult Spock ever throws at Bones himself. He bites his tongue this time, but we know he won’t always.

All that being said, this is the friendliest they’ve been (with Jim’s life not in the balance) since the M13 Salt Vampire incident in The Man Trap. Even if the banter is condescending, it’s better than outright arguing/hostility.

Spock & Chapel Under The Influence

So the WHOLE point of this episode is that the virus not only intoxicates but reveals the hidden nature/truths that the infected individual has been repressing, it unleashes emotional inhibitions. My point being…

I don’t think Chapel has admitted ANY of this to Spock’s face before, ever. In fact, I’m willing to bet they will never have anything candid and truly romantic in Strange New Worlds because of the newfound significance of this scene.

She will be pining for him for the next seven years, because he is engaged. She will get engaged to Roger Korby, who is so much like him but not. Roger will disappear, presumed dead, before they can be married. But Spock is here, she knows Spock is alive, and this virus is making her feel some kinda way about it.

Another layer to this is that Spock’s feelings regarding Chapel are obviously perturbing for him. This much is true in SNW as it is in TOS, he’s letting her touch him but refuses to call her Christine, Chapel only calls him Mr. Spock. The familiarity, the friendliness is gone but the emotions are there. He says “nurse, you shouldn’t-“ because they’re both engaged, but he lets her touch him.

The way he freezes and turns when she blurts out “I’m in love with you Mr. Spock” is such an Oh God No moment for him. Which is why I’m thinking she NEVER told him the truth. He can’t even look at her as she makes truthful, intense observations about who he is that fill him with shame even if they shouldn’t.

Then all he can do is apologize profusely! Is he apologizing for being human or for being Vulcan? Is he apologizing for leading her along without noticing? Is he apologizing because he doesn’t love her in the way she would like him to? Is he apologizing because he can’t be with her because they’re both engaged? Is he apologizing to her because he wants to do away with the failings of emotion altogether??

Is it ALL of these things at once?! Probably! Not only that this is one of the last times he calls her Christine post SNW! I would like to say THANK YOU Strange New Worlds for making this scene so ridiculously juicy! Holy moly!

Spock Under The Influence

After an incredibly emotional encounter like that, is it any wonder Spock has a full on nervous breakdown? All that grief, all that rejection, all that turmoil erupting to the surface the minute he walks away from someone who understands him, or at least tries. Regardless of how he feels about her.

We haven’t seen him process any of the awful emotional losses he’s taken up to this point. So we can presume that losing Michael, letting Pike sacrifice himself for him, his failing engagement with T’Pring, and now the intense encounter with Chapel are all hitting him like a ton of bricks. The virus isn’t allowing him to use his Vulcan training to compartmentalize any of it anymore.

He tries to use the good old fashioned Vulcan mantra “I am in control of my emotions” which fails. He then tries to calm himself by telling himself he’s an officer, and “my duty is to” to what? To your family? To the sister you lost? To the fiancé who’s rejected you/you’ve rejected?To Starfleet? To the Captain you lost? To your new Captain? Who provokes new emotions in you that you despise? That sends him flying off the handle even more. Logic and duty are failing him.

He stumbles over to the view screen, he tries to communicate? To work? “Too late” too late for Chapel to reach him because he’s chosen his Vulcan nature over his Human one? Too late to stop himself from caring about other people? Why? Because Kirk carved into his heart before he was aware and could prevent it? All of the above? Again, probably.

Then, he tries to start doing math (presumably). Which is where the L’tak Terai comes in. My guess is it gets worse when he’s distressed, he can’t do whatever he was trying to do on the monitor if he’s too upset to keep the numbers, or anything else, ordered properly in his mind.

We see him desperately try to communicate with Michael and his mother in Light & Shadows by repeating the coordinates to Talos IV in the wrong order over and over. We can only assume he feels like he’s lost his grip, so for whatever reason he is, with effort, counting by twos, in order. This also fails him as he ultimately becomes a sobbing mess before he can get to eight.

The problem isn’t because logic is failing him or because of his L’tak Terai, it is because he has been deeply, vehemently, neglecting his emotions.

“I’ve Got It, The Disease… Love”

When Kirk enters, Spock immediately reveals more of the truth to Jim. His attitude toward his mother has changed since the earlier meltdown “just because one of my ancestors married a human female” has transformed “my mother, I could never tell her I loved her”.

Chances he regrets how he’s been regarding her previously. Which lends more credence to my L’tak Terai (inherited from Amanda) theory. While his resentment for his father always broils beneath the surface. This is the closest he’s come to relying on his humanity since SNW.

“Jim, when I feel friendship for you I’m ashamed” he says this like a revelation, like he wasn’t aware of the shame until now, or at least not it’s source. He’s allowed himself to get close, and the sign he’s beginning to accept that lies in the fact that he only calls him Jim in this scene. He’s allowing himself to care about Jim and acknowledging that truth within himself. Something he’s been fighting since The Man Trap.

But Jim (understandably) isn’t listening, which frustrates Spock. He’s trying to be vulnerable against his usual judgement right now. So he speaks in the language Jim is speaking, violence. They’re hands are locked in a stalemate for a moment. A stalemate Spock could easily win if he wanted to considering he smacks Jim across the room moments later. The logical conclusion is that he allows it to be a stalemate.

We already know how Vulcans regard touch, touch of the hands especially. If nothing else it is a desperate “stop fighting me, look at me, please listen to me” move, perhaps telepathic, perhaps not. I wonder if Spock had surmised that the disease transfers through touch, and in his inhibited judgement, allowed himself to infect Jim. Forcing Kirk to be as vulnerable and uninhibited as he is.

What does Jim do as he realizes the infection has gotten to him? He tells Spock not to love, whether he’s referring to Spock telling him he was his friend, a confession of affection, or was informed that love from when their hands clutched. He is telling Spock not to love him, that they’re both better off without love.

Spock watches with sympathy as Jim reveals that the weight of being the youngest captain in the fleet, not only that but captain of the flagship, is CRUSHING him. Jim interestingly correlates how Spock feels about him to his burgeoning affection for Janice, but feeling as though he can’t ever reach for her. As if those feelings weren’t all that different.

Like Spock, he’s terrified that if he lets himself feel, it will destroy everything he’s worked so hard to maintain. In this, Spock looks at the man he’s finally allowed himself to acknowledge as his friend, and sees himself. In that moment he follows his sister’s advice “find the person that seems farthest from you, reach for them”.

All he can do to help Jim now is to try the impossible, the one in ten thousand chance. He does the thing that is hardest for him to do, he follows his gut and takes the risk, the intermix formula. Because right now, it’s the only chance they have, and Jim needs him, Kirk said as much himself.

Closing Banter

When Spock enters the bridge, he’s still infected, and asks Kirk if he is alright. He calls him “Jim” in front of the entire crew for the first time, rather than as a hushed aside.

There’s a subtler conversation going on between Spock & Jim when Kirk asks what the time warp did to them. He is not only asking in a literal sense, but asking what transpired in the conference room did to the two of them.

I believe this confirmed that when Spock tells him they have three days to relive. Almost as if he’s asking if he wants to just pretend what happened did not, that it’s water under the bridge. Kirk’s response is “not those last three days.” As if to say no, what happened between us matters to me.

“This does open some interesting prospects Captain” then conveniently followed by some technobabble. The question, now that they both acknowledge the confrontation was important for their relationship, is what do they do now?

“We may risk it one day, Mr. Spock.” Other than the literal professional conversation they’re having what else could this possibly mean? Other than that they will one day risk openly caring about each other, being open to love, whatever form that does or does not take.

It is an unbelievably important moment for their relationship, and for Spock overall.

[phasers-on-sun]

what’s a word you hate to hear in any media?

i literally have so so many words that make me shrivel up inside, but today I heard Spock say “triangulate” in snw. that’s my new hate word obsession. what’s yours?

[spockeveryday]

[captainsolocide]

A ZIPPER???? IN STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES????

[trekedit]

[meant-forsomethingbetter]

1x04 -  The Naked Time

5/10. An entertaining thriller where the plot conveniently mandates that every character reveals his or her most innate fears and weaknesses – bar Scotty, Uhura and McCoy, that is. Sulu fencing shirtless, Riley’s irritating singing, Rand being politely bewildered that Kirk apparently has a crush on her plus Spock having a mid-life crisis all came together rather haphazardly. It did allow for some nice moments between the crew members, such as Kirk apologising for being hard on Uhura and Kirk and Spock checking on each other after their heated argument while infected. Scotty was at the fore for the first time, though his efforts with the warp core left something to be desired; Christine Chapel also made her appearance, though like the previous episodes, any time a woman appears there’s a man to harass her! It’s like the Murphy’s Law of this universe, though maybe ‘Roddenberry’s Law’ is more accurate. I know it’s not meant in bad spirit and the times were different, but oh boy. I mean even Rand got unwanted pawing from some lieutenant and Kirk himself. (Almost, on Kirk’s part, but still.)

Favourite quote: “I’ll protect you fair maiden!” “Sorry, neither.” – Uhura. // Uhura doesn’t take shit, as a rule, and it was wonderful to see her so explicitly and succinctly shut down Sulu’s suppositions about her, correctly addressing his condescension even if he was out of his mind at the time. Even when she responded curtly to Kirk yelling at her, she managed to curb her own anger and return to being an officer, choosing to respect the chain of command over her own emotions – something many of the other crew fail to do on the regular. The audience saw that she is a consummate professional, but she will also stand up for herself.

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TOS Episodes in stardate order:

I finally finished my rewatch and thought this might be useful for ff writers or just anyone interested

(this is using the Netflix episode order and the star date which was mentioned first in the episode)

1x04 Where No Man Has Gone Before 1312.4

1x07 Mudd's Women 1329.8

1x02 The Man Trap 1513.1

1x11 The Corbomite Maneuver 1514

1x03 Charlie X 1533.7

1x06 The Enemy Within 1672.1

1x05 The Naked Time 1704.2

1x18 The Squire of Gothos 2124.5

1x08 What Are Little Girls Made Of? 2712.4

1x09 Miri 2713.5

1x10 Dagger of the Mind 2715.1

1x14 The Conscience of the King 2817.6

1x17 The Galileo Seven 2821.5

1x21 Court Martial 2947.3

1x12 The Menagerie Part 1 3012.6

1x13 The Menagerie Part 2 3013.1

2x07 Catspaw 3018.2

1x16 Shore Leave 3025.3

1x19 Arena 3045.6

1x28 The Alternative Factor 3087.6

1x20 Tomorrow is Yesterday 3113.2

1x23 Space Seed 3141.9

1x22 The Return of the Archons 3156.2

1x24 A Taste of Armageddon 3192.1

1x26 The Devil in the Dark 3196.1

1x27 Errand of Mercy 3198.4

2x16 The Gamesters of Triskelion 3211.7

2x09 Metamorphosis 3219.8

1x30 Operation: Annihilate! 3287.2

2x01 Amok Time 3372.7

2x02 Who Mourns for Adonais? 3468.1

2x12 The Deadly Years 3478.2

2x11 Friday's Child 3497.2

2x14 Wolf in the Fold 3614.9

2x13 Obsession 3619.2

2x05 The Apple 3715.3

2x10 Journey to Babel 3842.3

2x25 Bread and Circuses 4040.7

2x19 A Private Little War 4211.4

2x18 The Immunity Syndrome 4307.1

3x13 Elaan of Troyius 4372.5

3x06 Spectre of the Gun 4385.3

2x08 I, Mudd 4513.3

2x15 The Trouble with Tribbles 4523.3

2x22 By Any Other Name 4657.5

2x24 The Ultimate Computer 4729.4

2x20 Return to Tomorrow 4768.3

3x03 The Paradise Syndrome 4842.6

3x02 The Enterprise Incident 5027.3

3x04 And the Children Shall Lead 5029.5

3x12 The Empath 5121.5

3x16 The Mark of Gideon 5423.4

3x01 Spock's Brain 5431.4

3x08 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 5476.3

3x05 Is There In Truth No Beauty? 5630.7

3x09 The Tholian Web 5693.2

3x11 Wink of an Eye 5710.5

3x14 Whom Gods Destroy 5718.3

3x18 The Lights of Zetar 5725.3

3x15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 5730.2

3x10 Plato's Stepchildren 5784.2

3x21 The Cloud Minders 5818.4

3x20 The Way to Eden 5832.3

3x19 Requiem for Methuselah 5843.7

3x22 The Savage Curtain 5906.4

3x24 Turnabout Intruder 5928.5

3x23 All Our Yesterdays 5943.7

No Stardate:

1x01 Pilot: The Cage

1x15 Balance of Terror

1x25 This Side of Paradise

1x29 The City on the Edge of Forever

2x03 The Changeling

2x04 Mirror, Mirror

2x06 The Doomsday Machine

2x17 A Piece of the Action

2x21 Patterns of Force

2x23 The Omega Glory

2x26 Assignment: Earth

3x07 Day of the Dove

3x17 That Which Survives