#tos parallels

[startrekuniverse]

SNW || TOS

[shigeoreum]

“He is part of me… The Man is the center of all things…”

-“Metamorphosis” s2 ep9

[torsamors]

“There are always possibilities, Spock said. And if Genesis is indeed life from death, I must return to this place again.” Unification // Afterword by Spock of Vulcan, The Autobiography of James T Kirk

[gglinaa]

smth from the first movie

[offdensen]

[nightowl822]

[fastdrawfarmboy]

I know we all like to talk about Kirk grabbing Spock's arms in the "not in front of the klingons" scene and how it's something he normally does before kissing people but like, can we talk about how Spock does the same to Kirk at the end of Amok Time because I for one cannot stop thinking about it.

Like, what were you going to do there Spock? Were you going to finally do with your captain what you know he's done with all those people who you wished were you?? Were you going to grab your captain by the arms and kiss him on the lips in an expression of pure, illogical, unvulcan joy and love??? Did seeing this man alive fill you with so much relief and elation and oh so human affection that you couldn't help but mirror what he would do if put in your position with someone he loved as much as you do him???? Gay.

[captainsolocide]

"you gave your girlfriend a tracker?" aos spock vs. putting a tracker on jim in the undiscovered country prime spock

[starberry-cupcake]

Spock defending Una Chin-Riley in court in SNW S2E2 Ad Astra per Aspera // Spock defending Jim Kirk in court in TOS S1E20 Court Martial

Jim being a menace behind the wheel in SNW S2E3 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow // Jim being a menace behind the wheel in TOS S2E17 A Piece of the Action

[startrekuniverse]

SNW || TOS

[trek-tracks]

Thinking about the fact that, when Spock is sacrificing himself in Bones' place in The Immunity Syndrome (2x18), refusing to let Bones board the shuttlecraft and do the dangerous tests, he instead asks him to "grant me my own kind of dignity."

Bones then says to Spock:

"Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand?"

But then, in The Empath (3x12), when the Vians announce that, under their experiment, "There is an eighty seven percent chance that the doctor will die. And while Commander Spock's life is not in danger, the possibility is ninety three percent that he will suffer brain damage, resulting in permanent insanity."

(The worst, least dignified fate possible, for a Vulcan)

Bones flips the script and grants Spock his "own kind of dignity" --

by sacrificing himself in Spock's place.

[torsamors]

Let me help (id in alt text)

[Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever, Anne Carson - Euripides, Big Eden (2000), W. H. Auden, Holes (2003), Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever, Deleted scene from The City on the Edge of Forever, Star Trek: Voyager - Resolutions, Dead Poets Society, The Untamed (2019), Star Trek - The City on the Edge of Forever]

[gglinaa]

i’ve finished the motion picture movie and tbh i’m so high on joy i can’t shut up. i coudn’t really care about the main plot because it was quite classic for tos (and tos has taught me you shouldn’t overestimate it’s plot decisions in general tbh). therefore i couldn’t be bothered by any plot flaws either

but the subplots and little stories told through characters lined up together so perfectly. the whole spock’s story felt so clean. so smooth. it was so full of opportunities to pick up on his thoughts and motivation(s). i also love how expressive jim is. you always can hear what he leaves unsaid when he narrows his eyes or raises his eyebrows. it’s such a convenient tool for telling his story as well (and everything around k/s in gen is also so full of things speaking for both of them. it’s almost like a disney movie)

idk. it felt like justice

[bumblingbabooshka]

My name is [BRUTUS] and my name means [HEAVY] so with a [HEAVY] heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy

Something about having absolutely no choice in who you marry. About being literally forced by the law to spill blood - to accept this stranger as your husband over a man you truly care for or accept the fact that the man you love might die because you put him in danger. Something about risking becoming the wife of a man you've never even seen before a few minutes prior because you know anything would be better than putting your beloved in harm's way. Something about the trust inherent in that decision and in the way she speaks of it after. Truthfully, T'Pring doesn't know the captain and she doesn't know Spock. Either one of them could have taken her as their wife but she does know Stonn. She knows that Stonn will remain by her side no matter what. They made a plan together. They have an agreement which T'Pring believes will be upheld even though the plan changed with the arrival of Kirk. Stonn will always be there, always, and Stonn will be hers. Something about the language used around T'Pring: Ownership, subservience, non-personhood. T'Pring is an object that Spock can win. She cannot reject him, she has no say in the matter other than having Stonn 'claim' her instead. Even when Spock leaves after being very clearly rejected by T'Pring he says "Stonn, she is yours." as if despite her clear rejection he still owns her and is must formally 'give' her to Stonn. But the language T'Pring uses around Stonn is a break from that: "There was Stonn who wanted very much to be my consort, and I wanted him." Stonn who wanted very much to be HER consort and she WANTED him. The language here is very particular - It's not, for example: "Stonn wanted me to be his wife" - he is HERS. And she WANTS him. There's a mutual affection there and a strong trust - a trust which seems to be well founded since Stonn (though silent) stands by her side at the end of the episode. <- That might seem small but if Spock would reject her for 'daring to challenge' (again, the language is not 'because I don't want you' but more of an implied disgust at her having the AUDACITY to reject him) then it's not a stretch to assume that it'd be considered an insult in the TOS Vulcan society to NOT choose Stonn as her champion after a prior agreement. Anyway T'Pring was a woman in an impossible situation within a society which saw her as more of an object than a person and she wanted Stonn and Stonn wanted to be hers and she trusted that he would understand if she had to publicly pick someone else to ensure his life would be spared and he did understand.

[gay-mooshrooms]

Spock helping Kirk forget Rayna because Kirk wanted to in his grief and Spock didn't want to see him in pain...immediately after McCoy felt sorry for Spock because he would never know love.

I need to lie down

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

***SNW SPOILER ALERTS***

This scene at the end of Lost in Translation of Uhura introducing Jim to Spock for the first time? *Chef's kiss*

The trio unite over their mutual disdain for Sam Kirk.

Jim has also been watching Spock playing chess across the room, as he reveals to Uhura:

Which reminded me of what his alternate version said in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow:

"I used to play all the time with my first officer, till she got sick of losing. Been looking for a proper opponent ever since . . .

That old-fashioned, two-dimensional version, though, it's basically idiot's chess."

Jim was also well known for obliterating Spock at chess in TOS.

Get used to losing from now on, Spock.😂💚