#tos films

[m0rbs]

At it again, making edits using incredibly low quality VHS footage

[calliethetrekkie]

Triumvirate Prompts: Day 3

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#3. Favorite Star Trek Headcanon

Hopefully this one counts. It's been brought up in the novels before, but IDT the actual canon ever confirmed it, so...

One of my favorite headcanons is that, after the fal-tor-pan in The Search For Spock, Spock and McCoy became bonded. You can view it as romantic or as friends or whatever way you see fit. Either way, they've become linked, and it actually doesn't really bother them when they found out. It does however mean that they can read each other incredibly well and know each other on a level that most couldn't achieve. Even after Spock becomes an Ambassador and McCoy remains in Starfleet as a doctor and thus are frequently apart, they are always there for one another for the rest of their lives. For these two, I think that means a lot.

And yes, maybe Jim got added later on (again under whatever lens you choose) so he's also there XD

[electronickingdomfox]

So I went to visit my parents last weekend, and since they were broadcasting all the TOS movies on Saturday (they’ve been doing that recently in Paramount channel over here), I thought I could watch them with them. They had never seen anything Star Trek-related, though some characters like Spock were familiar for them (as they are for most people). This is how it went: The Motion Picture

It was right after lunch, so they both fell asleep as usual. My father still had time to comment ironically on Kirk’s “cute” shirt after meeting Spock:

My mother woke up at the very end, and asked what happened. Me: “The whole film happened”.

The Wrath of Khan

My father was far more interested in this film. A special highlight for him was how Khan’s crew looked like Guns N’ Roses:

He was also particularly outraged by David wearing a jacket around his shoulders for no apparent reason (and noticed this for no apparent reason, because who even looks at that!?). And I mean very, VERY outraged.

The Search for Spock

After recovering from David’s jacket, my dad had to focus on Kirk wearing a pink shirt, of course.

Also, he found incredibly funny that Kirk wouldn’t care so much for his son’s death, but was willing to sacrifice the Enterprise, his career, and basically EVERYTHING for Spock.

Me at the end of the movie, when they’re transferring Spock’s katra: “If this goes wrong, Kirk’s gonna lose both his friend McCoy and his boyfriend Spock”.

My mother (who hasn’t paid much attention to the films), and completely casual about it: “Ah! So they’re boyfriends”.

Me, explaining how there were many hints from the producers/actors, but these are old films, so of course nothing is explicit.

My mom: “Well, their relationship seems indeed too intense to be just friends.”

The Voyage Home

My dad is still focusing on Kirk’s pink shirt.

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We didn’t watch the other two movies because it had become waaay too late. So, to recapitulate, as result for this first contact with Star Trek, my father noticed “shirts”. And that it goes: “Spock>>>>>>>>>>>Enterprise>David” for Kirk’s priorities. I think my mother didn’t pay much attention to the plots, but somehow was left under the impression that Kirk and Spock were boyfriends.

I don’t know if this was a failed watch-together, or a success...

[razzafrazzle]

enough strong bads... time for strong sads (theres still a strong bad here)

[image description: a page of drawings of a human design of strong sad from homestar runner, where she is depicted as a fat, tan-skinned trans woman with gray and brown hair pulled into a bun and multiple piercings. she is wearing a gray sweatshirt, jeans, and steel-toed combat boots, and next to her is a note stating that she is trans and bisexual and that her pronouns are she/they. next to that is a drawing of her smiling and wearing a sloshy t-shirt, and above that is a comic of strong bad poking her in the stomach and saying "even her gender is my hand-me-downs", to which she stays silently angry at him. end id]

[sapsuckers-and-stardust]

Watching Star Trek IV

Whale biologist: why do you hang around with that weird guy who calls you admiral and why are you so close?

Kirk: *hesitates*

Whale biologist, who lives in San Francisco in the 80s and is rapidly drawing many correct conclusions: that’s okay we don’t have to talk about it.

[spirk-trek]

Final Credits of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

[offline-nobody]

if i had a penny for everytime star trek wrote an incredibly autistic coded character, who happened to also be gay for the most bisexual character imaginable, id have 5 pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that its happened 5 times, right?

[garneneva]

Ghibli spirk pt2

[a-trek-trough-the-stars]

Barry Trivers and Gerd Oswald dropping “The Conscience of the King” on December 8th of 1966, only to never elaborate on Tarsus IV and Kirk’s past there

[daftmooncretin]

imagine being scotty in tos. every day your friend group goes on dangerous yet exciting adventures to new planets but you can never go because they always make you babysit the ship. also you have to stay on facetime with them the whole time in case they need a lift. you are the eternal designated driver. the seventh wheel. you dont mind as much as you should though because you sort of want to fuck the ship

[spocks-kaathyra]

Spock looking for whales at the Cetacean Institute!

[trek-tracks]

RIP Teri Garr (December 11, 1944-October 29, 2024)

Known for Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, and Friends, she was also the brightest spot in Star Trek's otherwise lackluster backdoor pilot of a Season Two finale, Assignment: Earth, as Roberta Lincoln. (After all, we know Kirk has a fondness for Lincolns.)

[constanzel]

Legit film slides from the show

[subterraneanna]

I've been scanning and restoring some pieces of original Star Trek: TOS film and wanted to share this before and after from a deleted scene in the episode "Elaan of Troyius":

At nearly 60 years old, the film is in bad shape, exhibiting substantial scratches and color shifting. The magenta/red tint is a good example of dye fading, a sign of deterioration likely due to the film stock it was shot on.

Prior to 1950, color motion picture film was shot in Technicolor, which required a large, cumbersome camera to simultaneously expose 3 separate strips of negative film that then underwent a proprietary dye imbibition process to create a full color image. Though visually stunning and remarkably color-stable, it was a complicated, expensive process reserved only for high budget productions. In 1950, Eastman Kodak introduced Eastmancolor, the first 35 mm “single-strip” color motion picture negative -- in short, a film that was easy to shoot and process, and compared to Technicolor, only used a 1/3 of the film stock. Suddenly color film was an affordable option for studios and its popularity took off. Eastmancolor was composed of a single strip of negative film surfaced with 3 layers of light-sensitive gelatin emulsion. During development, a chemical reaction produced magenta, yellow, and cyan dyes on their corresponding layers, which were superimposed to create a full color image. Unfortunately, these dyes were unstable, something that wasn't apparent until aging films began to lose their color in the following years.

The Star Trek image above is pink because its yellow and cyan dyes have faded away, leaving just the magenta layer. The information may be lost, but digital restoration can improve what's left. But because the yellow and cyan greatly contributed to the overall density of the image, basic color balancing still produces a lower contrast version compared to what the original must have looked like. The missing richness and depth seems most apparent in the skin tones, but hand painting some of the color can bring a little life back to it, as I've done here. It's a challenge because, as far as I can tell, the only remaining footage or still shots of this scene show some level of dye fading. Fortunately, now that the film is digitized, restoration can be an ongoing project. If you own any color motion picture film negatives or prints, the sooner you get them scanned the better. In the meantime, helpful storage information can be found here.

It's been a while since I've shot any film (film major), so it's nice to see it again, even if it's chopped up into single frames. I have a small collection of them so I'll post more restored images as they're completed. BTW @cheer-deforest-kelley has a great post on how this film went from the editing room floor to the hands of fans.

[thebreaddemon]

I have been thinking about this for months because it’s literally them guys they’re literally doing the pose GUYSSSSSSSS

[spirk-trek]

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