#tos the man trap

[fastdrawfarmboy]

I do love that scene in the man trap where uhura chastises spock for not reacting emotionally to a dead crewman because it could be kirk and "he's the closest thing you have to a friend" all the while spock has spent the entire time since the death announcement looking like he's about to throw up.

[cantorpike]

man i bet bones is fucking haunted by how willing he was to let nancy kill jim, the sound of jim screaming in pain as she started trying to take the sodium from his body as he just watched

bones really fucking goes through it in this episode. jim too, i don't like it when they fight lmao

[terranceholdsapencil]

I started watchiny Star Trek 🫡

Lets hope this doesnt suck me in as much as I fear it will

But also for a show from the 60s those effects are so cool???

Like maybe Im overreacting because the only thing to compare it to is Doctor Who, a british show. Which was still black and white in 1966. But like. I am genuinely impressed by these.

Terry is two minutes into the other famously autistics-attracting sci fi tv show from the 60s and hes already a little too impressed oh no

[trek-tracks]

He has to record the log so he'll remember

[spirk-trek]

Georgia Schmidt, Carole Shelyne, Serena Sande, Meg Wyllie, & Sandra Lee Gimpel

A tribute to some lesser-known women of Star Trek :)

[adoctornotatumbl-r]

spock , roughly two seconds before doing something so unhinged no one else has even thought of it : good thing i’m a vulcan and i would never do something irrational or illogical lmaoo

[iamenits]

McCoy + Smiles | The Man Trap

[spinach-pine]

This scene will never cease to be hilarious to me

If 🤛 this 🤛 were 🤛 Nancy 🤛 could 🤛 she 🤛 take 🤛 this 🤛

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[spockeveryday]

[jumbledbee]

I think abt how in Bones’ debut episode they just started off with him and Kirk being such good friends that they call each other pet names as a joke often

[gettheorion]

[cantorpike]

okay so the alien in man trap is supposed to look like the woman of these guys' dreams right? to bones, she looks exactly how she did when they last saw each other. to the crewman, she looked like a sex worker he fell in love with but had to leave behind. and to jim. she looks like a middle aged woman with salt and pepper hair

jim liking milfs canon?

[bogwarg]

I went to the salt and pepper museum with my girlfriend and saw this! I had no idea McCoy’s laser scalpels were salt and pepper shakers.

[trek-tracks]

for the next five minutes before there's another crisis

[spirk-trek]

outta my way!!!!!! my girlfriend is HURT!!!

[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.