#unification

[aquamonstra]

I think I speak for all of us when I say that every DaForge fan is like 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 at LeVar and Brent right now...

[remoteworkr9]

[walkingstackofbooks]

Does anyone else find Unification weirdly hard to find? Like, it doesn't come up on Youtube or on google if I type it in, I have to find somwhere else which has a link to it to get to it?

[nothing-in-particular-blog-hey]

[ha-dara]

okay do people actually think unification made spirk canon, like are you slash serious or what . please specify because to the life of me i cannot figure out why, they only briefly touch hands & look at each other tenderly which isn't really that much compared to what they do on the actual show- okay paused typing this to look it up and it's not meant romantically confusion solved

[buscemisworld]

can't believe i put off watching tos for so long literally just to be a hater and then i watched wrath of khan and was like ooooh ok this is something and started watching the series and then unification dropped and my brain chemistry has been altered

[silavut]

ST:U

Just found out about this, and just... WHAT???

OOF! THE FEELS!

😭💔

[0ciestiel0]

If you can make it through this with dry eyes…I have questions 😭

This was PHENOMENAL. The ending Kirk and Spock deserved. Even if not a K/S or Spirk shipper (I am but even if not) this is the ending they deserved. However you see their relationship they needed this.

Sam Witwer nailed Kirk in mannerisms. I’ve seen him talk about not just the makeup and digital makeup that he worked with and how long it took him to mirror the way Shatner’s body moves but the dedication he had, I have so much respect.

And THEN to top it off there is no dialogue in this film. There is a sound bite of Shatner’s Kirk but not as dialogue. Everything between Kirk and Spock is done through body language and facial expressions. It’s just so 😭💔❤️

This is the type of stuff we need to see more of in our franchises. Led by people who care. Shatner and Susan Nimoy were overseeing the project as producers, got to approve or reject if something felt off.

I cannot get past how unbelievably fantastic this was 😭💙

[heliumparty]

I saw the Star Trek short film Unification and as a Finn I have to say I'm happy to see Iittala is doing well in the future.

[autisticburnham]

I will say about Unification. It's very funny to me that Star Trek is still releasing short films even though they canceled Short Treks. Why stop Short Treks then?

[the-crooked-library]

this needs greentext format so here goes -

> be me

> biracial autistic queer star trek fan, obsessed with Spock

> watch unification. be altered at your very core

> make a post about the time-bending, reality-altering, soul-bonded connection that is K/S

> someone reblogs it and tags it with Rum Tum Tugger and Mr Mistofelees of the Cats (musical) fame

> truly we live in a wondrous universe. full of infinite diversity of experience in infinite combinations

[rainbowresurrection]

Paramount wants to bury Spock as a straight man sooooo badly. Bury your gays by burying them straight 💡🧠

[onedamnminuteadmiral]

Fucking arcane. Fucking unification. My ships dying together, SO BEAUTIFULLY after it all seemed hopeless!!!! I !!!!! I have had WAY TOO MANY FEELINGS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!

[ourflagmeansworms]

They deep faked my old man yoai, okay fine whatever.

But also they fix-it fic-ed them tragically dying alone.

I liked them tragically dying alone.

That was my favorite bit.

They aren't any more or less cannon, they hold hands a lot.

Whatever.

They are however less tragic.

I want my tragic old man yoai back.

[thesadchicken]

i'm reading the comments under Unification on YouTube and it's mostly older people who watched Star Trek when it first aired in the 60s i am going to cry

[darthcontusion]

I think something that is missing from a lot of analyses, but probably not all, just the ones that seemed to have risen to the top, is that we see kirk's self-image change over the course of the short from his 1967 tos physique to his 1994 appearance when he was taken into the nexus during the introductory scene of generations.

But as he holds spock's hand, it's not just "movie kirk" because it's a well-remembered iteration of the character, it's because that is the iteration of the character, the point in time, when James T Kirk, now an extra-dimensional entity, feels the most sorrow and the greatest desire to hold spock's hand: the climax of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Spock, ever logical, made the decision to pass his soul on to Doctor McCoy, another close friend, although he desperately would have wanted that duty to fall to Jim, before sacrificing himself to save the crew of the Enterprise. And then he dies in an isolation chamber pressing his hand in the shape of the vulcan salute on the opposite side of a transparent barrier as Jim's hand.

That regret is so crucial to Jim in the ensuing 2 films, and then writers kinda let that spark wane because the storyline was complete and Trek is, at its heart, episodic pulp fiction.

But here he is, not just any version of himself, but the version of himself that needed to be with Spock as badly as Spock would have longed for Jim in his dying moments trapped in a parallel dimension, once again trapped and unable to share this scary and intimate final moment with the person he loves the most.

Like this... specific moment in time

is when Kirk is being drawn to Spock's side. THAT is likely the intent of the unification short, in addition to perhaps a little selfishly nodding at Shatner's own regrets about his relationship with Nimoy at the end of Nimoy's life.

Spock and Jim are together then, now, and forever into the future.